Trump’s continuing lies about the war in Ukraine — and what they show

27 April 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)

Here was Trump’s Truth Social post on April 26th:

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https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114404524335638236

https://archive.ph/epMTo

Truth Details

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

No matter what deal I make with respect to Russia/Ukraine, no matter how good it is, even if it’s the greatest deal ever made, The Failing New York Times will speak BADLY of it. Liddle’ Peter Baker, the very biased and untalented writer for The Times, followed his Editor’s demands and wrote that Ukraine should get back territory, including, I suppose, Crimea, and other ridiculous requests, in order to stop the killing that is worse than anything since World War II. Why doesn’t this lightweight reporter say that it was Obama who made it possible for Russia to steal Crimea from Ukraine without even a shot being fired. It was also Liddle’ Peter who wrote an absolutely fawning, yet terribly written Biography, on Obama. It was a JOKE! Did Baker ever criticize the Obama Crimea Giveaway? NO, not once, only TRUMP, and I’ve had nothing to do with this stupid war, other than early on, when I gave Ukraine Javelins, and Obama gave them sheets. This is Sleepy Joe Biden’s War, not mine. It was a loser from day one, and should have never happened, and wouldn’t have happened if I were President at the time. I’m just trying to clean up the mess that was left to me by Obama and Biden, and what a mess it is. With all of that being said, there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, over the last few days. It makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through “Banking” or “Secondary Sanctions?” Too many people are dying!!!

Apr 26, 2025, 1:35 PM

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The first boldfaced passage’s “Obama … made it possible for Russia to steal Crimea from Ukraine without even a shot being fired” falsifies the reality, which is that:

1. The war started on 20 February 2014 when a U.S. coup that Obama’s Administration had started by no later than June 2011 to plan, and which started by no later than 1 March 2013 inside America’s Kiev Embassy into activation by training far-right and rabidly anti-Russian volunteers how to use the internet so as to recruit their paramilitaries for it, and which became very violent on 25 January 2014, and which culminated during 20-27 February in the coup itself, and NOT when Russia responded to it by “stealing Crimea.”

2. On that date, 20 February 2014, the war started on at least two fronts: 1. That day culminated a month of very violent actions on Kiev’s Maidan Square and inside Government buildings by America’s Ukrainian recruits; and, 2. It also culminated on the road home to Crimea by 8 busloads of pro-Yanukovych supporters (who had held signs on the Maidan supporting that democratically elected President), when their buses were blocked by and they were very violently attacked by teams of those U.S.-Government recruited fascist thugs who killed some, severely wounded others, and set their buses on fire. Word got back to the people in Crimea that this was what the new government would be like, and they didn’t like it at all. Furthermore, around 75% of Crimeans had voted for Yanukovych. Furthermore, Crimea had a higher percentage of its residents speaking Russian instead of Ukrainian than did any other of Ukraine’s provinces. Furthermore, Crimea had been a part of Russia starting in 1783, and was switched to Ukraine only in 1954 by the Soviet dictator Khrushchev, on a personal whim, which no one knows, but perhaps partly because he had himself been born less than 7 miles from Ukraine’s border. Furthermore, there was so much resistance by Crimeans to that switch, so that, shortly prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Crimea was granted the status of Autonomous Republic by the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR following a state-sanctioned referendum held on January 20, 1991. It was the only Ukrainian province that ever was granted autonomy, and the only one that had its own constitution.

3. The U.S. Government twice commissioned Gallup to poll Crimeans on their attitudes towards the U.S., NATO, and the EU; once during 2013 before Obama’s 2014 coup, and once again in April 2014 soon after 96% of Ukrainians voted to join the Russian Federation in the 16 March 2014 Referendum; and, what both pollings showed was intense hostility there to the U.S. and support for Russia — and strong opposition to NATO — and this was throughout not only Crimea but in all parts of Ukraine except the far-west near Poland. As regards Crimea specifically, one question on the post-referendum, April 2014, U.S.-sponsored Gallup poll in Crimea, was headlined, “Perceived Legitimacy of March 16 Crimean Referendum” (on page 28 of the poll-report), 89.5% of Crimeans had an opinion; 82.8% of Crimeans agreed with the statement, “The results of the referendum on Crimea’s status likely reflect the views of most people here.” And 6.7% disagreed. In other words: 92.5% of those who had an opinion said that the 96%-favorable result in the Referendum was true.

To say that “Obama … made it possible for Russia to steal Crimea from Ukraine without even a shot being fired” falsifies the reality: Trump lied. Worse yet: Obama actually stole Ukraine and especially was angling to steal Crimea; and here is why:

4. Part of Obama’s plan for the coup was for the oldest and largest Russian naval base, founded in 1783, which was in Sevastopol Crimea, to be converted into a U.S. naval base; so, Crimea was especially important to Obama. The U.S. regime wasn’t merely aiming to take over Ukraine but also to steal Russia’s main naval base, on Crimea. Trump was proud to be stealing Syria’s oil, but Obama would have been even more proud to have stolen Russia’s main naval base.

All of what Trump said, was actually only in order to prepare the U.S. public for his failure to fulfill on his campaign promises to settle the Ukraine war on his first day in office. He is going to retaliate against Russia for his failure, and Russia “has to be dealt with differently, through Banking or Secondary Sanctions.” And, so, too, he is going to blame “This is Sleepy Joe Biden’s War, not mine,” though actually it’s Obama’s war, and both Biden and Trump continued it, instead of exposing the American people and the entire world to this mega-crime by that Nobel Peace Prize winner — and instead of having quit extending this U.S.-caused war, instead they continued this mega-crime against not only the people of Ukraine, but also the people of Russia. The entire U.S. Government is rot, and stays rot. That’s not an opinion; it is shorthand for the massive evidences which prove it to be a truthful description of what it actually is. (And I say this not only as a scientist, but as an American who reveres my country’s great Constitution — which the post-WW2 U.S. Government routinely violates. And that is treason.)

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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.