Donald Trump made clear that his personal grudge with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky hasn’t abated during a phone interview with NBC News.

Speaking with Meet the Press anchor Kristen Welker on Saturday, the president knocked Zelensky for offering assistance to the U.S. and Middle Eastern countries, the latter of which the Ukrainian president said on Friday were seeking his aid in sharing drone detection technology.

The “last person we need help from is Zelensky,” Trump told Welker.

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[–] 150 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Trump treated Zelensky like a wet rag when he invited him to the whitehouse and Zelensky still willing to offer his first hand knowledge and experience of drone warfare.

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    I think Zelensky is probably looking for some quid pro quo.

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  • [–] 25 points 5 months ago

    Obviously. It's also meant as a "thank you for the support US have given Ukraine, allow us to share what we've learned in our drone warfare."

    But Trumps pride cannot handle that Zelensky might have something to teach the US when it comes to warfare.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    No, they've been actively making this offer to all their allies for a while now. This isn't recent. Everyone else took them up on it. Not a quid pro quo so much as just being a good friend to their good friends. The US could have been working with them on this for over a year IIRC, but they were too damn proud to accept any help from anyone else.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Most of the NATO countries training Ukrainians have been doing this since Day 1 (Mostly UK, Germany and Spain afaik). It's one of the main reasons to offer continuous training at local bases rather than 'just' sending officers to Ukraine.

    This is the first conflict between two modern militaries since the Falklands. And that wasn't broadly applicable for many many reasons. From a pragmatic point of view, militaries have been absolutely desperate to ingest lessons learned from the moment we started sending our materiel.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

    It's really telling how everyone went from "this is an illegal war and it needs to end" to "zelenski is so based for wanting to help America with with the war"

    This obsession American liberals have with zelenski where he seemingly can't do wrong is so weird. He does a lot wrong, this is one the wrongs. He's offering to help extend the war and make it significantly more deadly.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Trump probably reads Zelensky’s offer as Zelensky gloating or belittling him. If I were Zelensky I would be exploiting the situation to the max, by constantly highlighting how helpless and incompetent the Americans are in the face of Iranian drones and how awesome the Ukrainian fighting force actually is.

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