The Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post had some sharp words for President Donald Trump over his recent false claims about the Russia-Ukraine war.
Days after Trump labeled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy a "dictator," the Post featured a photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin on its cover along with the headline, "President Trump: This is a dictator."
The Post also published an article from right-wing Manhattan Institute scholar Douglas Murray that reminded Trump that it was Putin, not Zelenskyy, who launched an unprovoked war of aggression three years ago.
"In February 2022, following a massive build-up on Ukraine’s borders, Putin’s army launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine," Murray argued. "There is no rational narrative outside of Russian propaganda that blames “aggressive” actions by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or NATO that can justify such a military action. This came after Putin had already seized Crimea in 2014 and launched a war in the Donbas, in eastern Ukraine."
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Murray also warned Trump that any deal he strikes with Putin to end the war likely won't be worth the paper it's written on.
"He has lied to American presidents and European leaders his whole career," he wrote. "He has lied to Trump even since Trump has been back in office. Most recently Putin promised that he wouldn’t target Ukrainian energy facilities. Yet just this week he carried out a massive missile and drone attack against multiple energy facilities in Ukraine. It is almost as though Putin’s word doesn’t count for very much and he doesn’t care if you know it."
Trump has been relentlessly putting pressure on Ukraine to cave to his demands to give the United States half of all revenue generated from resource extraction within its borders, even as he has made no demands whatsoever from Russian in exchange for ending the war.
