Posted on 03/03/2025 6:22:26 PM PST by Mariner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has paused military aid to Ukraine following his clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy last week, a White House official, deepening the fissure that has opened between the two one-time allies.
"President Trump has been clear that he is focused on peace. We need our partners to be committed to that goal as well. We are pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution," said the official on Monday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
The White House had no immediate comment on the scope and amount of aid affected or how long the pause would last. The Pentagon could not provide further details.
Zelenskiy's office did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment nor did the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington.
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The US has cut off all deliveries of military HW which was already in the pipeline.
Trump has not approved ANY new aid since taking office.
Russia continues to chew up pieces of Ukraine.
Russia has said any military from NATO member states in Ukraine are fair targets and they would not accept them as part of a peace deal.
A few NATO states are alluding to enforcement guarantees on the ground and in the air if a deal is reached. But ONLY if the US is a "backstop" for their military misadventure.
Zelensky is still insisting he will not cede territory and he will settle for nothing less than a security guarantee from the USA.
YES!
“Zelensky is still insisting he will not cede territory and he will settle for nothing less than a security guarantee from the USA.”
I can see why Putin doesn’t do anything to ‘remove’ Zelensky, as Putin, for good reasons, doesn’t want a cease fire either, until an agreement is first reached. So Zelensky is doing Putin a HUGE FAVOR at this point.
BOOM!
"When you actually look at the substance of what this administration has done, not the rhetoric but the substance, this administration has been much tougher on Russia than any in the post-Cold War era," said Daniel Vajdich, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Take military spending: Trump sought to add $1.4 billion for fiscal year 2018 to the European Deterrence Initiative — a military effort to deter Russian aggression that was initially known as the European Reassurance Initiative. That's a 41 percent increase from the last year of the Obama administration.The president also agreed to send lethal weapons to Ukraine — a step that Obama resisted. And Trump gave U.S. forces in Syria more leeway to engage with Russian troops... "Those loosened rules of engagement have resulted in direct military clashes with Russian militants and mercenaries on the ground, actually resulting in one incident in hundreds of casualties on the Russian side," Vajdich said.
The administration has also imposed sanctions on dozens of Russian oligarchs and government officials... tough policies...have to be weighed against Trump's rhetoric, which is consistently friendly to Putin. ."There's a real disconnect between the president's words and the underlying policy," said Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for a New American Security. - https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/630659379/is-trump-the-toughest-ever-on-russia
And from from 12/26/17 there is
Trump Sends Tank-Killing Missile To Fight Russia in Ukraine, But What Can It Do? By John Haltiwanger On 12/26/17 at 5:53 PM EST The decision to sell the Javelin missiles also comes not long after the Trump administration approved a limited weapons sale between American manufacturers and Ukraine of Model M107A1 sniper systems, ammunition and associated equipment...It's fired from the shoulder and tracks targets via infrared (heat signature). Instead of targeting the front or sides of tanks, which are thick with armor, the missile flies in an arc and hits the top of tank where the armor is weak..Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko defended the move in a Facebook post, thanking President Donald Trump for his support. Poroshenko further described the arms sale as "a transatlantic vaccination against the Russian virus of aggression." - https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tank-killing-missile-fight-russia-ukraine-759745And as reported by abcnews.go.com om Dec. 23, 2020,
"Previously, as reported by ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News, Headlines & Videos om Dec. 23, 2020, "Trump admin approves new sale of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine.." The new package included Javelin anti-tank weapons, 150 missiles and two launchers, which came after a first sale, completed in March 2018, which included 210 Javelin missiles and 37 launch units.. "The Trump administration first approved the sale of Javelins to Ukraine in December 2017 -- a step that former President Barack Obama never took.... ..Before that, "Russia's Putin praises Obama's missile defense decision" to "cancel a radar installation in the Czech Republic and ground-based interceptors planned for Poland," LA Times Sep 19, 2009
Yet the foundational problem is that the West needs to get back to God whom it now overall wars with, and needs to come to effectual penitent, heart-purifying, regenerating, justifying faith in the gospel of grace (Acts 10:43-47, 15:7-9; Titus 3:5)
Maybe the guy really is that desperate, but he comes across as a retard. He’s demanding something that nobody in a position of power in the U.S. is willing to give him.
He’s like an unemployed drunk demanding that his parents co-sign a loan for a new Ferrari.
Has anyone noticed with an idiot Z is?
If he had half a brain, the war would end tomorrow.
Mr smarty pants ain’t so smart now even his allies want US involvement and Trump just showed them he ain’t playin.
NOT ONE MORE DIME for Zelensky’s corrupt regime!!! There will be elections, the dictator will be REMOVED, and THEN there will be peace. Until then, it’s NOT OUR BUSINESS!!!!
lawsuits in 1-2-3-—
The people who have been handling Z from the outset have assured him the aid would continue as it was politically impossible for Trump to stop it.
I think even his handlers believed it.
That’s because they have not seen a POTUS as sure, confident and powerful. He’s got political capital to burn.
This is the war Zeepers cheered for x 3 years.
This is how to end it; cut it all off and don't look back.
Putin would probably accept Indian troops as peacekeepers. Maybe Turks or Africans too.
Trump is the Honey Badger POTUS. He doesn’t give a &@#*
Next step is to start seizing Ukraine assets in the west to pay America back for all the US tax payer dollars they’ve stolen/swindles. Plus impose economic sanctions on Ukraine!
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