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US President Donald Trump blamed Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy for starting the war with Russia, a day after Moscow’s air strikes killed 35 people.
“You don’t start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles,” the US president told reporters.
Trump’s frustration with Zelenskyy — with whom he had an Oval Office clash soon after his inauguration — and apologism for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion comes as a far-right philosopher nicknamed “Putin’s brain” gains popularity among Trump supporters, The Wall Street Journal noted.
“As Trump and Putin move their countries closer in the realm of geopolitics, [Alexander] Dugin is trying to do the same on a cultural level,” the outlet wrote.