On July 14, United States President Donald Trump teased a sea change in his approach to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Trump declared he would send significant additional air defence units to Ukraine, whose cities are now subject to an average onslaught of more than 100 Russian drones and missiles daily. Leaks from the White House even claimed Trump had inquired with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a preceding phone call about what offensive weaponry Kyiv needed to hit Moscow directly.
Trump also made his most explicit sanction threat to date, proposing a 100 percent “secondary tariff” on countries that buy Russian oil, if the Kremlin does not agree to a ceasefire in 50 days, by September 3. But Trump’s tough talk has fallen far short of moving the dial. Russian officials have laughed off his claims about hitting Moscow. Air defence deliveries may lower the damage from Putin’s aerial onslaught, but delivering them in anything like the numbers Trump floated will take many months.
When President Trump incredibly-stupidly issued his dumb 50-day ultimatum earlier this week for Russia to voluntarily lose our war in Ukraine, he effectively gave himself fifty days to back down. Russia will not be intimidated, our sanctions are never going to collapse their economy, we do not have the defense industrial capacity to match their firepower, and they can shoot down everything we shoot at them.
All President Trump has done is pointlessly escalate himself into an embarrassing corner. He is letting the worst ideologues coax him into all of these idiotic moves. Or he is totally compromised, or he was always full of shit about MAGA, or whatever.
Any way you look at it, President Trump has taken complete ownership of the US/EU/NATO strategic defeat in Ukraine and thus he continues his losing streak.
See also:
–Russia Says Trump’s New Weapons Pledge A Signal For Ukraine To Abandon Peace Efforts
–Russia Says NATO Threatens WWIII In Latest Deterrence Plan That Could Take Down Kaliningrad ‘Faster Than Ever’
–EU Targets Russia With Toughest Sanctions Package In Years