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Again, the orange-faced bastard is but a running dog for the Kremlin, and sure it's an open secret on the streets of Kyiv.
Russia does not exactly "help" Iran, they back-stabbed them on several occasions. A more accurate description would be that Russia supports Iran to the extent that it serves its own agenda.
"Trusts" -> "Is owned by."
A headline like that really doesn't mean anything. The commander-in-chief lives in his little bubble with his dementia and his narcissism. Then people in the military have their own information, most of which is presumably more accurate than the big boss's brain.
Trying to speculate about what Donald believes or knows is an exercise in futility because he's a strong narcissist who's getting dementia. He believes in whatever he believes at that exact moment and it has nothing to do with the past or the future or reality, and if you haven't been around people like that, it's hard to understand, but you have to stop expecting them to have a normal brain. Logic doesn't matter. Facts don't matter. Reason doesn't apply.
The commander-in-chief lives in his little bubble with his dementia and his narcissism.
Therefore he can then be manipulated by his supposed minions who have bigger plans to either enrich themselves or launch nukes.
The simplest explanation is that the US in not an ally of Ukraine (or Europe).
Also because it's obvious and saying it only fans more flames for WWIII. We're having a hard enough time preventing it with Israel actively trying to derail any attempts at peace. It took long enough to get Trump even pushing in that direction. It will take a miracle for him to not get distracted. The last thing we need is to make this an open contest between world powers and double down on this mess.
But Zelenski doesn't care. He'll fan whatever flames if it help him with his conflict. This is the problem with having all these proxy countries associated with you. They don't always have your exact same strategic priorities or alignment with your goals. Our goal should be to get the US out of war. And both of these countries (Ukraine and Israel) want us in.
Our goal should be to get the US out of war.
The current war of aggression against Iran, sure. But not avoiding war unconditionally, no. The US could, for example, stay out of war by selling out Ukraine and rewarding Russian imperialism. But that would mean creating a precedent that the US capitulates and sells out its allies anytime someone else rattles their sabre. That's a path that doesn't lead to peace. It leads to servitude, and to rewarding whoever's the most flagrant warmonger.
But Zelenski doesn’t care. He’ll fan whatever flames if it help him with his conflict.
The desired end state of that conflict, for Ukraine, is Russians out of Ukraine and no more attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure. At that point, no more conflict. But ending it now on unfacorable terms for Ukraine means we'll get a refugee crisis, the systematic destruction of Ukrainian national identity, massacres, and further Russian aggression as Putin turns his attention to the Baltics or Poland. Neither is a good choice. But one is far less bad than the other.
It was an ally before the Trump came.
I'm not so sure the US was a proper ally of Europe (there has long been overt talk in the US about Europe as a competitor and a lot of effort from US sources to try and weaken the EU with for example funding campaigning for Brexit) but I do believe that before Trump the US was an ally of Ukraine.
Trump knows Russia is helping Iran, but there's nothing he can do to stop it.
Trump could absolutely stop it, if he wanted to. Just send a few hundred tomahawk missiles as military aid to Ukraine. Then tell Russia that if Russia does not stop, the US will send more.
I have seen this topic before and I don't understand what the importance of the issue is. Isn't the USA sharing intelligence with Ukraine? I suppose that Russia sharing information with Iran is what is expected in the situation and what could anyone do to prevent it?
what could anyone do to prevent it?
Just send a few hundred tomahawk missiles as military aid to Ukraine. Then tell Russia that if Russia does not stop, the US will send more.
The US is already sending a large amount of military material to Ukraine and if it sent something more forceful to pressure Russia, what Russia would do is send long-range missiles to Iran and then what? Do you keep climbing waiting for someone to do the chicken before you get to the nuclear thing?
The US is already sending a large amount of military material to Ukraine
No it isn't. Trump stopped all new aid.
Only what Europe paid for is being sent.
and? What does that change? It does not invalidate my previous point at all, there is already American material on the ground and American aid to Ukraine (it does not matter who pays for it in this case), it is normal for Russia to do the same with Iran (help that you also do not know if Iran pays like Ukraine does) and increasing it will only make Russia increase its aid to Iran, what do you gain from that and where do you set the limit?
On the original issue of the shipment, the US recognizing that Russia provides intelligence support to Iran is not going to change anything or benefit anyone in any way. Apart from the fact that if the US does/did it with Ukraine, with what argument are they going to even ask Russia to stop doing it?
I think it's more like a boss / employee relationship.
Based on Trump's body language in Helsinki, it's extreme dom/sub.