Robert E. Kelly
Key Points and Summary on Ukraine and Trump – President Trump’s abrupt pivot to aggressively arming Ukraine is not about achieving a total military victory, but rather a calculated strategy to force a recalcitrant Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.
-Frustrated by Putin’s refusal to engage in good-faith peace talks, Trump is now using the threat of advanced, long-range weapons—including potentially encouraging strikes deep inside Russia as leverage.
making European allies pay for and transfer these weapons, Trump is also “Europeanizing” the conflict’s costs and risks. The new strategy aims to exhaust Russia into a stalemate, not necessarily defeat it on the battlefield.
United States President Donald Trump just met the secretary-general of NATO in the White House and pledged substantial new assistance to Ukraine in its war with Russia.
The most important element of the latest aid is greater air defense, because Russia has been pounding Ukraine with its most punishing air strikes of the war.
But most controversially, Trump seems open to Ukrainian deep strikes into Russia, perhaps as far as Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
Now he would attempt to walk it back and say he was not in favor of attacks on Moscow or deeper into Russia. However, the threat remains.
Putin has hinted in the past that Western weapons used for such attacks would bring Russian retaliation against NATO itself.
Both the Trump and the previous Joe Biden administrations have resisted giving Ukraine long-range missiles because of that threat.
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