Trump Delivers Next Nothingburger to Ukraine
On July 3 U.S. President Donald Trump had a phonecall with the Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation:
President Donald Trump revealed the details of his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.
Trump told reporters before he boarded Air Force One for an “America 250” rally at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, “We had a call, it was a pretty long call, we talked about a lot of things, including Iran. We also talked about the war with Ukraine.”
Trump shook his head and said, “I’m not happy about that,” as the president remarked about the ongoing war he hoped to quickly end.
“No, I didn’t make any progress with him today,” Trump said when asked about a potential deal with Putin to end the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
Trump wanted to pause the war In Ukraine while Putin sees an advantage for Russian troops in the field and wants to continue the war until its root cause, the NATO march towards Russia, is eliminated.
Trump could not get his will. He was also under pressure from neoconservative parts of Congress to commit the U.S. to a longer war against Russia. They asked for shipping more weapons to Ukraine and for penalties against countries which continue to buy oil and gas from Russia.
Yesterday Trump gave in and decided (archived) to give another try to his predecessors failed Ukraine policy :
President Trump said he would help Europe speed more weapons to Ukraine and warned Russia that if it did not agree to a peace deal within 50 days, he would impose a new round of punishing sanctions.
Speaking from the Oval Office, where he met with NATO’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, Mr. Trump said the weapons would be “quickly distributed to the battlefield.” He also threatened to impose secondary sanctions, which are penalties imposed on other countries or parties that trade with nations under sanctions.
“I’m disappointed in President Putin, because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago, but it doesn’t seem to get there,” Mr. Trump said.
“It’s just the way it is,” he added. “I hope we don’t have to do it.”
Several additional Patriot air defense missile systems are supposed to be given to Ukraine by N
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