Published Jun 27, 2025
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Russian Major General Apti Alaudinov said he did not think U.S. President Donald Trump would save Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and called into question the American leader’s reliability in promises he makes.
Trump is attempting to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine and an end to Moscow’s full-scale invasion, which it launched in February 2022 to international outcry, a process he has said is not easy, and which he has found frustrating.
Ukraine is under intense pressure from Russian advances. Zelensky has urged Trump to increase American military aid to Kyiv and tighten the screw on Russian President Vladimir Putin to force him to make peace.
“I don’t think Trump will save Zelensky, because Zelensky has made too many mistakes for Trump not to stand up for him,” Alaudinov told state news agency TASS.
Alaudinov is deputy head of the main military and political department of the Russian army, and the commander of the Akhmat special forces of the defense ministry.
Trump ‘Can Change Strategy’
The Russian general said that Trump does not feel compelled to stick to previous statements, and that the American president can take his promise back, “then give a new one, then change his strategy,” TASS reported.
Zelensky and Trump have had a fractious relationship at times. In February, tensions burst open in public when Zelensky, Trump, and U.S. Vice President JD Vance clashed during a meeting at the White House in front of the media.
Many of Trump’s supporters dislike Zelensky, viewing him as corrupt and an obstacle to peace. They do not want American money and time spent on Ukraine, seeing it as non-essential to U.S. interests.
The relationship has since been repaired, and the two leaders often speak, but there are still sharp points of contention, particularly over Trump’s handling of Russia and Putin.
Trump is hoping to build bridges with Russia and restore relations once the war is resolved, and is happy to engage with Putin directly, though he has voiced annoyance over the deadly Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities.
But Alaudinov said “we need to understand that only Russia is a friend of Russia”.
“All the others are relative friends,” Alaudinov told TASS. “This is why we must clearly play our own game in each of these games and do everything to ensure that we win in each of these games in the interests of our state, and not to be on good terms with someone.”
He added: “That’s the whole point. We have two allies: the army and the navy.”
“Many of Trump’s supporters dislike Zelensky, viewing him as corrupt and an obstacle to peace. They do not want American money and time spent on Ukraine, seeing it as non-essential to U.S. interests.”
Why might that be?
The answer is the undisguised Ukraine hatred of Trump, his asshole son and the entire magaputler media, which contends that support for Ukraine is a left wing cause.
Ted Nugent, to cheers and rapturous applause at a Trump election rally :
“I want my money back! I didn’t authorize any money to Ukraine to some homosexual weirdo!” Nugent yelled. “I want my money back!”
https://archive.ph/CJ6Iv
https://web.archive.org/web/20150710111157/https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/12/23/the-man-who-got-russia-right/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/43812.George_F_Kennan 3
“Were the Soviet Union (or Russian Federation) to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.”
“The jealous and intolerant eye of the Kremlin can distinguish, in the end, only vassals and enemies, and the neighbors of Russia, if they do not wish to be one, must reconcile themselves to being the other.”
“It would be useful to the Western world to realize that despite all the vicissitudes by which Russia has been afflicted since August 1939, the men in the Kremlin have never abandoned their faith in that program of territorial and political expansion which had once commended itself so strongly to Tsarist diplomatists.” [519]” ― George F. Kennan, Memoirs, 1925-1950