How Trump supports Putin

On 5 March the so-called* “President of the United States” Donald Trump suspended military assistance and intelligence to Kyiv, enabling Putin’s long-range missiles to strike inside Ukraine. This enabled Putin to kill hundreds more Ukrainians and destroy more of their infrastructure. Finally he lifted the suspension 6 days later.

On 15 April Trump again blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for starting the war with Russia – a day after a major Russian attack killed 35 people and injured 117 others in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.

“You don’t start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles,” Trump said.

On Monday he had first described the Sumy attack as “terrible” but said he had been told Russia had “made a mistake”.

How Trump supports genocide in Gaza

Trump sends billions of dollars worth of new weapons to support Israel’s illegal and immoral war of death and destruction of Gaza only encourages Netanyahu to resume starving the people, depriving them of food, water and power.

And when Netanyahu ended the ceasefire that Trump’s team had helped to negotiate, Trump supported him. In the following 10 hours, Netanyahu killed more than 400 Palestinians.

On 20 March White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said “The president made it very clear to Hamas that if [Hamas] did not release all of the hostages, there would be all hell to pay. Unfortunately, Hamas chose to play games in the media with lives.”

It’s not Hamas that are playing games. It is Netanyahu and Trump. International humanitarian law, underpinned by the Geneva conventions, is intended to act as a check on armed conflict. Parties in war are expected to adhere to the principle of distinction between militaries and civilians, and the principle of proportionality. Attacks against military objectives which cause excessive civilian casualties relative to the advantage gained are, in theory, a war crime.

Trump wants to imitate his friends’ crimes

Trump has nothing but contempt for international law and has threatened to copy his friends by gaining control over Gaza, Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada.

Both Putin and Netanyahu are the subject of arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court.

Will Trump be next?

* Why is Trump not really the President of the United States?

A real President means it when he swears he would, the the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, whereas Trump proved he is prepared to do the exact opposite by trying to have himself declared as the victor in the election that ended his first term.

But on 6 January 2021 Trump “blatantly violated his oath of office and fanned the flames of the insurrection”. As Congress met to certify the election of Joe Biden as President, a defeated Donald Trump incited and set loose a vicious, racist, mob on the United States Capitol – a mob he knew to be heavily armed.

For more see Common Cause website.

But then Trump is a notorious liar. Perhaps nobody should be surprised at the lies he told in 2025, as show in this video: