No, DJT, Ukraine has not lost militarily. . You have outsmarted yourself..

 I just heard Trump claim "Ukraine has been militarily defeated, " just as he claimed Iran has been defeated. https://www.bbc.com/news/war-in-ukraine . No,. Trump's lying. Note: Later,Trump said he mispoke; he was referring to Iran, not Ukraine. However, Trump has been saying that Ukraine is losing the war all along, from the Oval Office, that Ukraine did not have the cards to play as recently as December 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwL2ooeUsR8

The Ukraine war is a slog with the front going back and forth with victories and retreats measured in kilometers. Drones are not so secret Ukrainian weapons, and recently, Ukraine has used them to attack Russian military infrastructure, causing Putin to fear an attack enough to call off a parade to celebrate the Russian defeat of the Nazis.

DJT, both Ian and Ukraine have outsmarted you.

Iran has just demonstrated that strategy beats bombs, tanks, and missiles, and boots on the ground.. Trump failed to secure Hormuz first, and now Iran has the world by its control of a great percentage of its energy supply.

When it comes to Ukraine, superior technology and strategy overcome the superior manpower of the Russian effort, and now Russia is running out of recruits to feed their cannon fodder advantage.

This is in spite of Trump's constant sabotage of Ukraine's efforts, which is not very subtle:

.- his failure to even release aid to Ukraine, voted on by Congress, -his undermining of ATO,
-his miscalculating the extent to which Germany and Europe would up their military commitment to see Russia in Ukraine as a threat to them,
-his counting on the recently defeated Hungary's Orban, also a Putin ally, to keep European funding for Ukraine bottled up,
-his echo and wink to his buddy Putin in negotiations..all have failed to stop Ukraine from stopping Russia, and the war advantage now counts in numbers, one or two kilometers.

-Trump, above all also failed to anticipate the technological talent of Ukrainians themselves to manufacture drones, thus changing modern warfare, while defending against drones. made in Iran.

All of the above measures that Trump has tried have not been enough to influence Ukraine's resistance to Russian aggression. As AnneApplebaum of The Atlantic magazine has been noting since December 2025, because Europe has stepped up and because Ukraine no longer depends on US aid, America has lost the ability to influence the war's outcome and is therefore becoming irrelevant. If this is true, Trump outsmarted himself by challenging Europe to fund the Ukraine efforts, and when they did, he lost control of the situation.

-A recent column in the New York Times by David French must have rankled him. The French call Zelensky the leader of the free world as well as changing the battlefield with their new, innovative technology.

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In the broader sense of what has happened, Trump has laid bare the weakness of his America First policy, of shedding alliances and going it alone. If successful. America is not first; it is irrelevant. That takes us back to the late 1930's when America Firsters became very powerful in keeping us from getting involved in Hitler's aggression in Europe. How did that turn out,