It took Donald Trump less than a decade to turn the US toward Putin’s Russia | CNN Politics

It took Donald Trump less than a decade to turn the US toward Putin’s Russia
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 6 minute read
Published 5:56 PM EST, Wed February 19, 2025

President Donald Trump, left, and and Russia President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting in Helsinki on July 16, 2018.President Donald Trump, left, and and Russia President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting in Helsinki on July 16, 2018.Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty ImagesA version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.CNN — President Donald Trump defended the US taking part in peace talks that excluded Ukraine by rewriting history.Speaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago after a round of golf on Tuesday, Trump argued that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “should never have started” the war, adding, “You could have made a deal.”Say what you want about the many billions in US military aid for Ukraine or which countries the US should be allied with, there’s no realm of reality, except the one pushed by Russia, in which Zelensky started the war that began in February 2022 when Russian forces invaded Ukraine.

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