NATO, ceasefire or control of Crimea— On the Ukraine issue, it seems Trump is speaking from Putin's throat

US President Donald Trump has stated that if the ongoing war with Russia is to end, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky must completely abandon hopes of joining NATO. Even the Crimean Peninsula will not be returned to Ukraine; the reason being that Russia occupied it more than a decade ago. News, BBC.

On Monday (August 18), just hours before a meeting with Zelensky at the White House, Trump wrote something similar on Truth Social.$BTC $SOL