Trump Calls Putin a World Benefactor as Ukraine Crisis Deepens
🤝 MOSCOW — Trump praises Putin publicly the same week he moves to remove Zelensky. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: "Freeing up oil" is Trump's public justification for a deal that was already running before he announced it. The political function: normalize Russia's rehabilitation before any congressional pushback forms. With Zelensky delegitimized and $100B in frozen assets on the table, this rhetoric signals the Ukraine pivot is now official White House positioning, not back-channel improvisation.
