alt Hacker News> He is making himself complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands in Ukraine
There's no need for hyperbole. Trump is bad but there's been less than 100,000 Ukrainian deaths (troops and civilians combined) since the beginning of the war in 2022, let alone under his reign.
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watwut • last Wednesday at 7:31 PM
He is literally giving Ukraine to Putin. Which Russia will use for further expansion.
inetknght • last Wednesday at 6:36 PM
While that might be true (there's a whole ball of wax about whether or not that's true), it's probably not true for combined deaths. No doubt well more than hundred thousand, and I wouldn't be surprised if more than two hundred thousand.
The deaths are tragic. And no matter how many there are, Trump's actions will certainly make the number go up before it stops.
It's not hyperbole.
It might be 100,000 by now: “A confidential Ukrainian estimate from earlier this year [2024] put the number of dead Ukrainian troops at 80,000 and the wounded at 400,000, according to people familiar with the matter.” [https://archive.ph/5wRcT]
And today Trump blamed the Ukrainians for the war going on for that long, saying they could have stopped it three years ago.