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According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, only 32% of respondents approved of Trump’s performance on inflation. The share of Americans who disapprove of his presidency has risen to 51% in the latest poll, compared with 41% after he took office.

Also, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy observed that Trump was living in a “disinformation space” in blaming Ukraine for the Russian invasion and declaring that his approval rate was only 4% instead of the 58% registered by recent polls.

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Polls. After all their mistakes, I'm surprised that anyone believes them. I suppose they are of comfort to some people if they publish results that they want to hear.

Russia invaded Ukraine because a) they are a bunch of Nazis and, b) the threat of Ukraine becoming a NATO country against Russia's border wasn't welcome.

So, it could be said that Ukraine is responsible for the invasion. We need to realise that Ukraine has nothing to do with Australia, and neither does Russia; so who gives a toss which of them is at fault.

One thing that Trump said about Zelenskyy - that he is a dictator - is true.

But, Australians should not be bothering themselves about Ukraine. We should have no involvement with it at all.

While it might be in the public interest to support our geopolitical partner Taiwan against Chinese aggression, and in doing so uphold freedom of navigation for our vital sea transport routes, wading into Ukraine is a mindless own-goal for Australian politicians.

Dutton's ‘Australia stands with Ukraine’ is baloney. He needs to be concentrating on things concerning Australians this close to an election.

I was quite taken with these words of wisdom;:

“Australia doesn’t have to pick a side in every, or any, global conflict. Ukraine is riddled with the same Nazi ideology we defeated in the second world war. Russia is a totalitarian regime with communist roots that we had defeated by the end of the Cold War. Neither regime remotely resonates with Australian or Western values”. (anon]

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Dear ttbn,

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You wrote :

« Russia invaded Ukraine because a) they are a bunch of Nazis and, b) the threat of Ukraine becoming a NATO country against Russia's border wasn't welcome»
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That's Russian propaganda, ttbn.

There were neo-Nazis on both sides of the fence – in both Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine was not threatening to become a member of NATO. Russia’s invasion prompted Ukraine to re-seek membership of NATO.

In 2010 the Ukrainian parliament voted to abandon the goal of NATO membership and re-affirm Ukraine's neutral status. That was the situation when Russia invaded Crimea in February 2014. Ukraine had no intention of becoming a member of NATO at the time. It continued to remain neutral.

Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea marked the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian War.

In late November 2013, Ukrainians took to the streets in peaceful protest after then-president Viktor Yanukovych chose not to sign an agreement that would have integrated the country more closely with the European Union.

As the protests in Kyiv’s Independence Square, or Maidan, continued into 2014, the government began cracking down on the demonstrators. The size of the protests grew in reaction and turned into what was termed “the revolution of dignity.” Those who remained on the Maidan risked assault, kidnapping, unlawful arrest, and loss of their jobs.

On January 16, the government introduced a series of repressive laws severely restricting civil society and the right to protest. On January 22, the first protesters were killed in clashes in Kyiv; in all, over 100 mostly civilian protesters died, the majority on February 20 and 21.

On February 22, after President Yanukovych had fled the country, parliament voted to oust him and hold new elections, but the new government did not seek to change its neutral status.

Russia then occupied and annexed Crimea, and in August 2014 Russia's military invaded eastern Ukraine to support its separatist proxies.

Because of this, in December 2014 Ukraine's parliament voted to end its neutral status, and in 2018 it voted to enshrine the goal of NATO membership in the Constitution.

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If the Ukraine had become a NATO member Putin would not have been game to invade.
He invaded to get in first, simple as that.
Where will he stop, the Polish border ? Maybe, maybe not.

"According to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll, only 32% of respondents approved of Trump’s performance on inflation. "

Yeah, I know. Its a disgrace. Trump's been in power now for a whole month and he hasn't fixed inflation yet!! What's he doing? Struth, these people. Things are going so well for Trump and MAGA and the country, that they'll latch onto any old piece of rubbish.

Meanwhile Rasmussen reports that Trump's overall approval rating is 52%, that and for the first time in 20years a plurality think the country is headed in the right direction. Pay ya money, pick ya poll.

BTW, did anyone notice that, as concerns the only poll that counts, Trump won?

As to Ukraine, what I find fascinating is that, for years people have whined that the war is futile and must be stopped, but that, as soon as Trump provides light at the end of the tunnel, they suddenly demur. Of course, we all know that the claims to want to stop the war were just virtue signalling and in reality they were only interested in it stopping on terms favourable to their chosen side.

Trump is putting America first - pity we couldn't get Australian politicians to do the same for us - and he is cleaning out scumbags who have been giving away US taxpayers’ money to bad people, not just Ukraine.

$100 million has been dispensed to terrorists, or aid swallowers linked to terrorism, mainly through USAID.

But they won't stop the loony Left from trying to paint President Trump as the bad guy.

Trump is wildly popular with the majority of Americans; that’s why he is President. And most of them would not give a FF about the thoughts of some lefty sitting in his underpants in front of a computer thousands of miles away, even if they knew he and hard Left Australia still existed (just) as an English speaking country at the bottom of the world.