Ben Shapiro says he has “moral objections” to Trump's remarks on Ukraine: “Ukraine absolutely did not start the war”
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From the February 19, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): So here's President Trump saying some stuff about Ukraine. Again, I have some moral objections to the stuff that he is saying about Ukraine here because I don't think that it is true. So for example, at one point during this press conference, he made the signally false statement that Ukraine started the war. This is not true. Ukraine absolutely did not start the war. You can argue with Ukrainian policy toward both Europe and Russia over the period 2013 to 2022. But Russia invaded a sovereign country and tried to take Kyiv and has killed tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people. Here's President Trump suggesting sort of the opposite that somehow Ukraine is the problem here.
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SHAPIRO: So, President Trump there saying Ukraine never should have started it. Ukraine did not, in fact, start it. You can blame them for not coming to the table sooner. You can say the deal should have been taken sooner. I've said that myself. But Ukraine absolutely did not start the war, and Russia should have stopped this war at any point.