Zelenskyy states Russia lost battlefield initiative in Dec 2025, arguing Ukraine has a diplomacy window before winter if sanctions pressure on Russia continues.
All true, but It’s all about perspective. Trump won the election promising repeatedly that he wouldn’t start new wars, and would in fact end wars.
And depending on which polls you follow, the approval rating for the attacks on Iran are as low as 27% (Reuters/Ipsos, March 2026). But all polls conclude that the majority of US citizens do not support the war.
So this is definitely not something the US voters directly signed up for. Voting for a president is not a mandate for that president to operate on wholesale deception.
All true, but It’s all about perspective. Trump won the election promising repeatedly that he wouldn’t start new wars, and would in fact end wars.
And depending on which polls you follow, the approval rating for the attacks on Iran are as low as 27% (Reuters/Ipsos, March 2026). But all polls conclude that the majority of US citizens do not support the war.
So this is definitely not something the US voters directly signed up for. Voting for a president is not a mandate for that president to operate on wholesale deception.