The Trump administration has formally stopped financing new weapons sales to Ukraine and is considering freezing shipment from US stockpiles. This comes in the wake of a disastrous White House meeting on Friday between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which resulted in an anticipated mineral rights deal not being signed.
I’d be the last to claim to know what is going on behind the scenes, but this seems to be a public relations response to the online kerfuffle earlier today between Trump and Zelensky.
Trump on Monday also lashed out publicly at Zelensky for saying the war with Russia was likely to continue for some time. “This is the worst statement that could have been made by Zelenskyy, and America will not put up with it for much longer!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social, using a different spelling of…
