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Welp.
We’ve gone from a “on day one” to a “probably.”
Unfortunate turn.
RT:
US President-elect Donald Trump has said he will “probably” reduce American aid to Ukraine once he takes office, in an interview aired hours after he called for an “immediate ceasefire” between Moscow and Kiev.
During an interview broadcast by NBC News on Sunday, Trump was asked whether Ukraine should “prepare for less aid from the United States” after his inauguration next month. “Possibly. Yeah, probably, sure,” Trump replied.
The US has allocated $131.36 billion for Ukraine since February 2022, according to figures published by the Pentagon earlier this month. Just under $90 billion of this amount has actually been transferred, according to Germany’s Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Throughout his campaign, Trump repeatedly promised that he would end the Ukraine conflict within “24 hours” of taking office, without offering any specifics on how he would achieve this. However, it is widely believed that he would use the threat of a reduction in US aid to force Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to negotiate, and the threat of increasing said aid to pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin into talks.
Trump met with Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Saturday, for an impromptu discussion that he was reportedly “reluctant” to attend. None of the three men spoke to the press afterwards or revealed any specific details of the 40-minute meeting.
I understand that you can’t put much in a single statement from Donald Trump, but the ending the Ukraine war was basically his main campaign promise aside from stuff related to immigration.
Imagine if during the 2016 transition he had said “I’ll possibly build a wall, I’ll probably do it.”
It was an easy place to just say “yes.”
Trump about reducing military aid to Ukraine
– “Should Ukraine prepare for a reduction in the volume of aid from the US after you take office?”
– “Probably. Yes”
What happened to – I will stop this conflict in 24 hours ?
Rhetorical question… pic.twitter.com/2ZWlShmOm3— Dagny Taggart (@DagnyTaggart963) December 8, 2024
To be fair, he does look to be exhausted by that nagging negress.
For his part, after the meeting, Zelensky rejected any form of peace, claiming that the war cannot ever end.
RT:
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has rejected a call by US President-elect Donald Trump for an immediate truce and peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
Following a meeting between Trump, Zelensky, and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Saturday, the US president-elect issued a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform saying, “there should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin” to settle the Ukraine conflict. According to Trump, Ukraine “would like to make a deal and stop the madness.”
However, Zelensky made it clear that this is not the case, in a post published on X on Sunday, in which he said the conflict “cannot simply end with a piece of paper and a few signatures.”
“A ceasefire without guarantees can be reignited at any moment… To ensure that Ukrainians no longer suffer losses, we must guarantee the reliability of peace and not turn a blind eye to occupation,” the Ukrainian leader stated.
He stressed that “in the occupied territories of Ukraine, at least several million people remain,” once again ruling out the possibility of Kiev making any territorial concessions to Moscow in exchange for peace.
”It is precisely such peace through strength that we discuss with all our partners, as well as the steps and guarantees needed for the people and the state attacked by Russia,” Zelensky said.
Ending this war is sort of the only thing I expected Trump might actually do, so it is frustrating to see him waffling on that.
Maybe the statement doesn’t mean anything, I don’t know.
Like everyone, I hope for the best. I’m just less convinced than most that the best will happen in any sphere, other than maybe some good economic news.
