Trump Justifies Russian War Crimes: “Putin is Just Doing What Anybody Else Would Do.”

The Trump administration hasn’t just abandoned Ukraine—it’s actively working to hand Putin the victory Russia’s military couldn’t secure through force. More than mere appeasement, the U.S. President is an active enabler of Moscow’s war effort. His administration’s decision to block critical battlefield intelligence—data that has saved countless lives—wasn’t just a policy shift. It was deliberate sabotage.

As Russian bombs rain down on Ukrainian cities, Trump shrugs off the horror, declaring in the Oval Office: “Putin is just doing what anybody else would do.” An excuse as chilling as history’s worst rationalizations of atrocity. This is the same moral void that once justified the leveling of Grozny, the razing of Aleppo, the destruction of Mariupol. The message is clear: In Trump’s world, the strong have the right to exterminate the weak.

Trump knows exactly what he is doing. His intelligence freeze isn’t a miscalculation—it’s a deliberate act of cruelty. As Ukraine’s leaders plead for aid, he smirks and shrugs. “They have to get on the ball and get a job done,” he scoffs. The slaughter of civilians isn’t a crisis—it’s a bargaining chip.

But Trump’s betrayal doesn’t stop with Ukraine. By signaling that NATO allies can no longer rely on the U.S., he is systematically dismantling the West’s last line of defense. Former U.S. General Ben Hodges warns that “Trump’s actions are a wrecking ball to everything NATO stands for.” And Putin? He doesn’t need to fight Europe—Trump is doing the work for him.

In Kharkiv, amid the ruins of Russian missile strikes, civilians are left defenseless—another direct consequence of Trump’s decision to cut off intelligence. The city burns, its people suffer, and the man who made it possible sits in the Oval Office, unbothered.