Trump Finds a Face-Saving Way To Give Ukraine ‘the Right To Fight On’
If one thing is consistent about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, it’s the feeling that America is getting ripped off. That feeling explains why he’s sometimes a hawk and a dove at once, why he’s been both for and against withdrawing from Afghanistan, why he wants to raise and lower oil supplies at the same time—and why he’s against U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, [Ukrainian President] Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier this month.
But Zelenskyy seems to have figured out how to satisfy Trump’s feelings without changing much in the short term. Ukraine has agreed to put “50 percent of all revenues earned from the future monetization of all relevant Ukrainian Government-owned natural resource assets” into a U.S.-Ukrainian reconstruction fund, according to a copy of the deal leaked to The Kyiv Independent. Zelenskyy is expected to sign the deal on Friday.
In return, Ukraine gets “military equipment and the right to fight on,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday. He added on Wednesday that “we will be on the land, and that way there is going to be automatic security because nobody is going to be messing around with our people,” although he hinted that European countries will be responsible for any actual military deployments.Â
Trump also bragged about being the first president to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons such as Javelin missiles. “I gave the Javelins, and the Javelins are the things that knocked out those tanks right at the beginning of the war. They said that—that [former President Barack] Obama, at the time, gave sheets, and Trump gave Javelins. Well, I was the one that did that,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday.
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