He would have used the 120 days the president is allowed to take military action on his own. The law allows a sitting president to deploy troops up to 120 days on a combat mission without an official declaration of war from Congress if U. S. citizens, troops or allies are in direct danger as a result of actions from an enemy. However, the scope of that mission would only be to eliminate immediate threats to evacuation.
Since the U. S. is part of NATO and Ukraine is the buffer zone between Russia and a NATO member, the "U. S. citizens, troops or allies" part is satisfied. The president cannot use this law as long as Russia is only staging troops at the Russia/Ukraine border. However, as soon as Russia invades, this law kicks in due to the threat of Russia passing through Ukraine to be able to attack a NATO nation. If Ukraine WAS a NATO member then the president would already have the full conditions met to use this law.
Even under those circumstances, the mission MUST cease if the president has not secured authorization from Congress within 120 days. In that case troops on this mission must be sent away from the conflict.
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Probably exactly what happened when Russian "mercenaries" entered into a part of Syria that the US very openly established as a deconfliction zone: utterly annihilated the unit in the span of a couple minuts. Russia's "mercenaries" never came anywhere near the US ever again for the rest of Trump's presidency. Trump was much less of an interventionist than Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr or Reagan, but if he drew a line in the sand, it actually meant something.
I'm using quotes because Russia claimed to disavow the soldiers involved in that incident as something to the effect of "military men on leave looking to make extra money," and if anyone actually believes that story, I'd be happy to part with some beachfront property in Arizona.
Most likely the situation happening in Ukraine right now wouldn't be happening right now at all if Trump was in office, and they'd wait for the next US election cycle to start pushing boundaries.
"Russia... beware... if you do anything to invade the... errh... Ukraine... I will make sure, I'm really serious folks... I will make certain there will be another fire and fury...(attempts to make tough face) errhh,, like I said with the OTHER country that I happen to forget the name now... it'lll come back to me... so Russia, watch out! I'm pretty certain they won't do anything after they've heard me, but you never know..."
He'd probably nuke them first, start a nuclear winter... but that is totally just a random guess, I don't have a clue in these what if questions.
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I couldn't hear Trump say that. He's not THAT ballsy. Openly threatening Russia is pretty foolish. However, I do think Putin respected Trump enough not to rock the boat. Not that I'm supporting Putin. Just saying he wouldn't mess with Trump, while pretty much any world leaders sees Biden as a clown and puppet not to be taken seriously (lest you forget he literally sh*t his pants in front of the Pope). I'm unsure what Trump would actually do against Ukraine though, if Putin dared pulled this crap with Trump in office.
He might even have brokered a peace deal, the way he did between Israel and 6 formerly hostile Arab Gulf nations. For that, he really *did* deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. But of course he was not even nominated, whilst the Obamunist received one, for doing nothing but continuing the Bush policies and having more drone strikes. Kind of says something doesn't it...
People don''t seem to understand that Russia- as a means of (proposed) conquest- has to be patient. Commies knew they wouldn't go anywhere with Reagan, so they just waited out the term to (hopefully) get a more liberal POTUS. If Trump were in there, Russia would just wait out another term before re-engaging others.
Omg, as soon as I saw your question, I thought, "Say some shit about obliterating them." But It's funnier because you said the same thing! 🤣
Good luck at destroying the biggest country in the world and that has the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world. They'd surely sit and wait us destroy their country and would not send their almost 7k nukes to destroy every inch of the US territory... /s
Our leadership is made of loonies...The problem in Ukraine is a manifestation of decade of Democrat corruption... They opened the door for it to occur...
Lol he'd do nothing. He already tried to blackmail Ukraine and is good buddies with putin
Putin would have gone against Trump. Right now Putin see's how weak we are with President that has mentally declined.
He'd have agreed with Putin exactly what he should say before abandoning them and inviting Russia in. After all, they didn't make up a fake investigation to help him win re-election.
Probably nothing, since the Ukraine President didn't get enough shit for him on the Biden's to win the election. That's how he'd see it. He'd say "It's just an annexation. We used to do it all the time".
MAYBE provide arms and equipment but stay the hell out of it. We owe Ukraine nothing. We have no defense agreement and no moral obligation to them.
The man's not even president any longer and still you whine about him? That's just sad.
Some real dumb fucks opining on here. For the four years Trump was president, Putin was MIA. So, I think one could make a pretty legitimate argument this wouldn't even be happening if Trump was president.
if america could obliterate russia, they would have done it by now. same with china. they can't. that's the only reason they haven't brought them "democracy" yet.
I don't even want to know what that lunatic would do.
Probably sent an embarrassing tweet.
I’m not sure what he would do. Since trump is a wildcard, maybe Russia wouldn’t even be doing this.
Trump with talk tough but wouldn't do a fucking thing if Putin invaded because he was Putin's obsequious little bitch.
it would have never been a issue in the first place. He would have negotiated a good gas pipeline deal that would benefit everyone involved and kept russia and ukraine at peace.
If Trump was president it never would have gotten to this point.
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