Rumor mill - Trump's 50 day deadline is because he and many others believe Ukraine will collapse by then. And US working to have Zelenskyy removed from office that that Ukrainians can vote on a leader.
That's the problem with people who continue to agree with you but don't do anything about it. It's fine to start of with a good will gesture of "trusting" someone will do what they say. But eventually, you have to tie in penalties if they fail to follow through. I think we have all encountered people in our lives that flat out lie to your face continuously insisting they will do what they said they would. I don't know if Trump gave Putin every opportunity and now he's set that "50 day deadline" because he's finally had enough of Putin's lies. Reagan used the phrase "trust but verify" and I think we all know why.
And to be clear, Ukraine hasn't exactly been good to the USA. Deceitful fraud, self enrichment and grifting seems to be how that relationship has gone. Of course USA "guarantees" to Ukraine if they gave up their nukes haven't exactly panned out well. The US gubermint doesn't exactly have a good track record of keeping their promises while taking on new obligations they have no business taking on in the first place.
And to be clear, Ukraine hasn't exactly been good to the USA. Deceitful fraud, self enrichment and grifting seems to be how that relationship has gone. Of course USA "guarantees" to Ukraine if they gave up their nukes haven't exactly panned out well. The US gubermint doesn't exactly have a good track record of keeping their promises while taking on new obligations they have no business taking on in the first place.
I'm not sure that's exactly true in Ukraine's case. I think there's been a lot of MAGA propoganda relating to Ukraine from when Trump didn't want to fund them. Certainly some weapons have been sold on to hostile countries, which is why I personally said at the very start, no Western country should send them the latest weapons or even weapons that could significantly advance our enemies capabilities eg. Javelin. Capture is the other way of losing tech. Certainly, there's been some fraud in Government - lets not forget here we're dealing with a former Soviet country and Soviet Government was traditionally run on fraud and bribery from all reports, so nothing unexpected there. However, I don't think the attacks on Zelensky personally were reflective of the situation nor was the fraud as widespread as made out. Has Zelensky made mistakes? Sure, hes a comedian not a politician and is desperate hence his recent alleged corruption tolerance law. Would the West tolerate these mistakes in Government? Probably not.There's been a lot of propoganda out there to turn the American people away from supporting UIkraine because Trump simply being a business man didn't see the economic advantage to supporting them. I think only now Trump is realising he can't have his way with Putin. Trumps been carrying out politics like a businessman based on trust, when in reality politics are very different to business, and as I often said, losing Ukraine to Russia means losing Europe to Russia which in turn then poses a direct threat to the US. The cost of liberating or defending the whole of Europe is far costlier than winning the war in Ukraine. Trump needs to be taking a far more global view on Ukraine than he has traditionally and realise the implications. The loss of Europe means the loss of all Eastern listening and intelligence posts, radars, forward militray bases, allies etc. and the staging of hostile forces and missiles closer to the US with control of far more of the shipping lanes and sea realtive to the US as well. It's far costlier than a small war in a relatively obscure former Soviet country.