Donald Trump made clear that his personal grudge with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hasn’t abated during a phone interview with NBC News.

Speaking with Meet the Press anchor Kristen Welker on Saturday, the president knocked Zelensky for offering assistance to the U.S. and Middle Eastern countries, the latter of which the Ukrainian president said on Friday were seeking his aid in sharing drone detection technology.

The “last person we need help from is Zelensky,” Trump told Welker.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    But Ukraine is actively trying to rid itself of corruption? While several others aren’t bothering at all.

    Edit: technically Russia is European. So that should be automatically #1.

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      11 hours ago

      But Ukraine is actively trying to rid itself of corruption

      Is it though? Before the war, its efforts were dissappinting at best. Right now, they’re nonexistent.

      The Ukrainian government has just recently given the president the ability to hand pick people to oversee the president, effectively dismantling the entire office responsible for overseeing him.

      Again, in case I failed to convey this point in prior comments, I’m not saying Ukraine is evil or that we should not support it. I’m all for supporting it and having it join the EU in the future, but at the same time I want to highlight the issues it’s facing, both internal and external.

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        9 hours ago

        Don’t bother, you’re in an echo-chamber: Ukraine good, Russia bad, Iran bad, chest-thumping.
        Nuance is a foreign concept.