President Donald Trump struggled to offer much sympathy for the families of about 100 Americans—many of them U.S. military veterans—who have died fighting in Ukraine. An estimated several thousand Americans have volunteered to fight for Ukraine since Russian dictator Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion in 2022, with at least 92 Americans killed as of September, The New York Times reported.

Following a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Mar-a-Lago on Sunday to discuss a peace deal to end the war, Trump was asked about his message to the families of the fallen Americans. “The message is so obvious,” he replied. “What a shame. They died in a foreign country. And some are celebrated people, they’re very celebrated. But it’s so sad that a thing like that would happen.”

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    • flandish@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      i reckon so. but those who volunteer to do war are just … doing profit making for capitalists anyway.

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        2 hours ago

        Just hope you’re never in a situation where you have to make an existential choice of either letting yourself be killed or fighting. The profits of greedheads won’t be a consideration at that point.