8 Feb, 2024 14:25

Trump will keep Ukraine promise – Polish president

If elected, the Republican frontrunner has vowed to put an end to the fighting within “24 hours”

Former US President Donald Trump will likely keep his promise to end the conflict in Ukraine within 24 hours if he wins this year’s election, Polish President Andrzej Duda has said. The prospect of a second Trump presidency has caused unease in some Eastern European capitals.

Trump, who is the presumptive Republican nominee to take on President Joe Biden this November, has said on multiple occasions that he would resolve the two-year-old conflict “in one day” if he were to return to the White House.

“I can say from my personal experience as the president of the Polish Republic…what [Trump] promised to me was fulfilled,” Duda told reporters in Rwanda on Wednesday, according to Newsweek.

“I can say that President Trump keeps his word and if he says something, he takes it seriously,”Duda added. “That is as much as I can tell right now.”

Duda enjoyed close relations with Trump during the latter's time in the Oval Office, during which the US and Poland signed bilateral energy, defense, and trade deals. The two leaders increased the presence of US troops in Poland. During a visit to the White House in 2018, Duda remarked that a permanent US garrison in the country could be named “Fort Trump.”

However, both men have taken very different stances on the conflict in Ukraine, with Duda’s government donating an estimated 3.2% of the country’s GDP to Kiev, and Trump repeatedly accusing Biden of dragging the US toward “World War III” with his policy of open-ended military aid to Ukraine.

“I would get [Russian President Vladimir Putin] into a room. I’d get [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky into a room. Then I’d bring them together. And I’d have a deal worked out,” he told NBC News in September. Trump did not elaborate on how he would achieve this, explaining that “if I tell you exactly, I lose all my bargaining chips.”

Zelensky called Trump’s claim “a little scary,”and expressed concern that he would press ahead with the plan even if “[did] not work for us, for our people.”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said last month that Moscow had “no understanding of how” Trump could bring the conflict to an end, and that Putin’s administration has “not had any contact” with Trump’s team.

In any case, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a UN press conference in late January: “I doubt that the Ukrainian side would be ready for any resolution.”

Reactions among other Eastern European leaders have been mixed. Czech PresidentPetr Pavel– who has urged his fellow NATO leaders to increase the supply of arms to Kiev – warned last week thatthe bloc should “be prepared” for Trump to make a peace deal with Putin. The former US president, Pavel noted, “looks at a number of things differently.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, like Trump himself, has repeatedly argued that the conflict never would have happened had Trump defeated Biden in 2020. “Today, apart from him, I do not see anyone in Europe or America who would be a strong enough leader to stop the war,” Orban told France’s Le Point news magazine earlier this month. “Peace has a name: Donald Trump,” he added.

(Trump never leaves anyone’s mind in Europe and many other countries. Fortunately the largest financially and Balanced in every other way, support Trump coming back. Orban and a few others in EU want him back so the EU can stop destroying their countries for Ukraine)

https://www.rt.com/news/592076-trump-ukraine-peace-duda/

>>20379889

There’s a real why presidents and generals, back to Grover Cleveland until the end of WWII, they US should never fight in Europe ever again. Europe starts petty fights with each other, escalates it to wars, and the US to save them from their self inflicted wars.

None of the current countries thanks” Russia for sacrificing 25 million Russians to end the war. Its disgusting. “The Patriotic War” celebration was just held in Russia and no world leader mentioned it, even though Russia saved all of Europe and more.

Rep. MTG Files 2nd Ethics Complaint Against GA Prosecutor Targeting Trump

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"Where The Real Insurrections Lies": Rep. MTG Files 2nd Ethics Complaint Against GA Prosecutor Targeting Trump

https://rumble.com/embed/v49ltor/?pub=4

A Bittersweet Moment Brings Tears

By Adam Nagourney Aug. 13, 1996

Dressed in white, her voice hushed and shaking, her eyes glistening with tears, Nancy Reagan silenced the Republican National Convention tonight with a tribute to her husband, too ill to attend, and a quiet recitation of the words he delivered at the party's convention four years ago.

Mrs. Reagan, a slim and tiny figure, was greeted by a torrent of applause as she walked out onto the stage of the convention hall after a gauzy videotaped tribute to Ronald Reagan.

The video had included scenes from Mr. Reagan's eight years in the White House, and tributes from friends of his like former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, the evangelist Billy Graham and Jack Kemp, now set to become the party's Vice-Presidential nominee.

But the words of those men were quickly forgotten as Mrs. Reagan began talking. The image of Mrs. Reagan alone was unfamiliar, but her reference to her husband by the nickname that only she uses in public Ronnie brought nods of recognition.

And as she spoke publicly about her husband's waning life he is 85 years old, and suffering from Alzheimer's disease the televisioncameras lingered on delegates, men and women alike, wiping tears from their eyes. Mrs. Reagan herself fought back tears but, except for one faltering moment, stopped short of weeping as she told the hushed hall thatevery day brings another reminder of this very long goodbye.

Mrs. Reagan remembered that at the party convention of 1992, in Houston, Mr. Reagan hinted to his audience that he was perhaps seeing signs of deterioriating health.

Just four years ago, she said, Ronnie stood before you and spoke what he said might be his last speech. At that, she stopped to collect her thoughts.

I am not the speechmaker in the family, so let me close with Ronnie's words and not mine, she continued. In that last speech four years ago, he said: 'Whatever else history may say about me, when I am gone I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence, rather than your doubts. And may all of you, as Americans, never forget your heroic origins.'

Mrs. Reagan did not mention Bob Dole, Bill Clinton or the campaign at hand – a lack of partisanship that made her speech all the more moving.

In contrast, the videotape, part documentary and part campaign commercial, was more in keeping with the rest of the evening.

The video showed the high points of Mr. Reagan's Presidency, including his memorable speech at the Berlin Wall, where he appealed to the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. It showed him throwing a football, told of his well-known taste for jelly beans and had Mr. Graham describing him as the most uplifting person I've ever been around.

As an effort to gain favorable political exposure, the showing of the videotape was largely successful. ABC and NBC televised it in its entirety, although CBS instead broadcast an interview with Representative Susan Molinari of Staten Island (who will deliver the keynote speech here on Tuesday night) before breaking for a commercial and then returning for the last minute of the Reagan video.

Then Mrs. Reagan walked shyly onto the stage, her soft white dress set off only by a single string of white pears. She seemed overwhelmed by her reception, and as the applause went on and on, she mouthed thank you again and again, looking over an audience that included George Bush and Gerald R. Ford other than her husband the only two former Republican Presidents still living and Elizabeth Dole, who with her own husband visited the Reagans at Mr. Reagan's office in Century City, Calif., in June.

Mrs. Reagan began by fondly remembering her eight years in the White House. She went on to recall the last time she had appeared before an audience of delegates, when her husband himself was strong enough to speak and, indeed, to give one of the more memorable speeches of the 1992 convention.

Ronnie's spirit, his optimism, his never-failing belief in the strength and goodness of America, is still very strong, Mrs. Reagan said. ''If he were able to be here tonight,he would once again remind us of the power of each individual, urging us once again to fly as high as our wings can take us.

I can tell you with certainty, she said, ''that he still sees the shining city on the hill.''

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 13, 1996, Section A, Page 14 of the National edition with the headline: A Bittersweet Moment Brings Tears.

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/13/us/a-bittersweet-moment-brings-tears.html

>>20380064

Watch the RNC Video Tribute To Ronald Reagan's Presidency

Aug. 30, 2012

Crowd chanting:Four More Years

I went to my Chinese Acupuncturist today, he reminded of how wonderful, courageous and funny Ronald Reagan. I decided to remind myself of how truly loving, wonderful and patriotic he was, and how he sparked that patriotism into America again. Just think about that a Chinese Acupuncturist!

https://youtu.be/JaOaVO3Mufw?si=PHC2pBGm9IUilBbu

>>20380112

You are truly a fool, and hateful as any sock puppet could be. Do me a favor, Fuck Off, and scroll by.