Trump needs to match action with rhetoric on Russia

Published September 26, 2025 5:00am ET



President Donald Trump rightly lit into the United Nations on Sept. 23, noting that instead of acting effectively to end wars, all it does is “write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up.”

That day, after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump came out with his strongest statement yet against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on social media: “After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it is causing Russia,” Trump began, “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.”

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