Date: Friday, 22 August 2025
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/trumps-says-he-wants-ukraine-to-defeat
https://theduran.com/trumps-says-he-wants-ukraine-to-defeat-russia-but-biden-blocked
Trumps says he wants Ukraine to defeat Russia but Biden blocked it.
22 August 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
In a Truth Social post on August 21st, U.S. President Donald Trump said that he wants Ukraine to defeat Russia but that his immediate predecessor Joe Biden refused to allow Ukraine to receive the weapons it needed in order to do that:
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115067017601499775
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Donald J. Trump
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It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense. There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out? Regardless, this is a war that would have NEVER happened if I were President - ZERO CHANCE. Interesting times ahead!!! President DJT
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Aug 21, 2025, 9:35 AM
He is accusing Biden of Ukraine’s current situation, but he fails to identify what he is referring to when he says “Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND.”
Basically, the relevant history here is that on 13 September 2024, the UK’s leader Keir Starmer flew to the U.S. White House for a quickie private meeting with Biden to obtain his private permission to supply to Ukraine the long-range missiles that Zelensky was demanding in order for Ukraine to be able to blitz-attack and perhaps destroy The Kremlin (a longstanding U.S. Government and UK Government goal to achieve — and it is definitely NOT defensive; it is supremely AGGRESSIVE), but Biden’s answer didn’t come until September 15th, and it was only an indeterminate “not yet.” “Both Macron of France and Starmer of UK want WW3 to start as soon as possible, but Biden does not,” I reported. But, then, on October 13th, I headlined “The Collapsing U.S. Empire” and opened:
The neoconservative dream, ever since neoconservatism started on 25 July 1945, has been for the U.S. Government to take over the entire world, but this 79-year-old dream for them (nightmare for everyone else) has now practically ended, because after having played nuclear chicken against Russia ever since that date, the U.S. Government has finally — as-of 9 October 2024 (Biden’s cancellation then of his planned October 12th Ukraine-war victory summit at America’s Rammstein Air Force Base in Germany) — come to the painful realization that their plan (ever since at least 2006) to win a nuclear war against Russia, is unrealistic, and would only leave this planet virtually uninhabitable, a lose-lose war for both sides, instead of to produce the neocons’ ardently hoped-for win-lose war (in which, of course — as the neocons have imagined — the U.S. regime emerges victorious) against Russia.
The historic turning-point that started the climb-down from 25 July 1945 occurred on 9 October 2024, by means of an event that was buried in the news (almost as deeply hidden as 25 July 1945 had been), even in the few places where it was reported at all, when Reuters headlined (skillfully playing-down and hiding its shatteringly historic importance) “Zelenskiy awaits new summit date after Biden postpones Germany trip”. Although only few people would read a news-report about postponement of Biden’s “Germany trip,” this was actually a news-report about what was expected to have been the ultimate U.S.-and-allied meeting to coordinate the American empire’s coming conquest of Russia by means of intensifying their military support for Ukraine’s government against Russia.
The group meeting there is called the “Ukraine Defense Contact Group”, and Wikipedia says of it, that “The Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG, also known as the Ramstein group[1][2]) is an alliance of 57 countries (all 32 member states of NATO and 25 other countries) and the European Union supporting the defence of Ukraine by sending military equipment in response to the 2022 Russian invasion.[3]”
The announcement of this planned victory summit had come from the White House, the “SEPTEMBER 26, 2024” “Readout of President Biden’s Meeting with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine”, which said:
“President Biden outlined his decision to surge U.S. security assistance to Ukraine, and President Zelenskyy presented his plan to achieve victory over Russia. … President Biden will host a leader-level meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Germany, where the two leaders will review progress on these consultations and coordinate with international partners on additional assistance for Ukraine. President Biden is determined to provide Ukraine with the support it needs to win.”
Then, the following day, Ukraine’s Pravda headlined “Biden announces date of leader-level Ramstein-format meeting” [which he set for October 12th in Germany, at America’s Ramstein Air Force Base there], and quoted from that White House readout.
Then, on October 5th, the German Government’s Deutsche Welle network headlined “Ukraine's Zelenskyy to present 'victory plan' in Ramstein”, and reported:
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that he would present his country's "victory plan" at a regular meeting of Kyiv's supporters in Ramstein, Germany, on October 12. The plan, whose details have not yet been made public, has already been shown to US President Joe Biden and both presidential candidates running for the White House in the November elections. The meeting at the US air base in Ramstein, near Frankfurt, is expected to be attended by more than 50 of Ukraine's allies, including Biden.”
And now that the meeting has been indefinitely postponed (by Biden), his ‘allies’ (the stooges who lead America’s colonies) won’t even have the opportunity to consider Zelensky’s “victory plan” until — until- Russia will have already defeated Ukraine. As I headlined on October 12th, “Ukraine Appears Now to Have Lost Its War With Russia”.
Even before the U.S. Government’s climb-down, however, it was already clear that if the U.S. Government’s now 79-year-old supreme goal of taking control over the entire world would not end in annihilating life on this planet, it would still end in the break-up and end of the now-79-year-old American empire.
So, when Trump, on 21 August 2025, complained that “Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND,” he was just trying to deceive his MAGA followers to believe that hs predecessor, Biden, shouldn’t have quit the ‘Cold War against communism’ that Truman had started on 25 July 1945, and so should instead have gone into WW3 like Starmer and Macron were urging him to do. Like I said, “The historic turning-point that started the climb-down from 25 July 1945 occurred on 9 October 2024, by means of an event that was buried in the news (almost as deeply hidden as 25 July 1945 had been), even in the few places where it was reported at all, when Reuters headlined (skillfully playing-down and hiding its shatteringly historic importance) “Zelenskiy awaits new summit date after Biden postpones Germany trip”.”
I doubt that Trump has anything really to complain about regarding Biden’s Ukraine-war policy, because Trump is at least as monstrous as Biden was, and had proven even as early as 4 December 2024, that “Trump is set to continue Biden’s policies on Ukraine.”
Russia had already won the Ukraine war when Biden, on 9 October 2024, ‘postponed’ (cancelled) the Biden-pre-announced 12 October 2024 ‘Ukraine Victory’ summit at which Zelenskyy was to present his ‘Victory’ plan. Zelensky HAD no victory plan. That war was already lost. But the dumb Trump still doesn’t yet know it. And his dumb followers don’t yet know that he’s dumb and a constant liar.
The problem isn’t Biden, and it isn’t Trump (both of which are atrcious); it is that America has degenerated to such corruptness as to keep the voters so misinformed, confused, and increasingly desperate, as to be left with choices between candidates who are as rotten as these ones are. It’s NO democracy. I have proposed an AUTHENTICALLY democratic alternative to it. Getting there won’t be easy, but it would be lots better than getting to what we now are heading into.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
