Trump on Weapons to Ukraine
Summary
Trump in a meeting with Mark Rutte (NATO) announced that the U.S. will impose 100% secondary sanctions on Russia and its trading partners if a ceasefire deal in Ukraine isn’t reached within about 50 days—that is, by the end of August.
Europe Will Now Pay for U.S. Weapons Sent to Ukraine via NATO. Basically the US will fill the European arsenals who will do the physical supply to Ukraine.
Rutte: “You want us to pay for Ukraine’s weapons. Which is totally logical.”
Trump explained why he’s threatening 100% tariffs instead of the previously proposed 500%.
According to him, a 100% rate can be imposed without needing new legislation, bypassing Congress entirely.
He added that both the 100% and 500% tariffs would have the same effect.
Trump stated that 17 Patriot missile systems are being prepared for shipment to Europe, with a significant number expected to be deployed on the battlefield in Ukraine. Eventually it was said that it a ‘full complement of weapons’.
More information will flow in during the day. The rest of this video is about how many problems Trump has solved in the world and then negative statements on Putin and lying about the SMO.
Europe wants to go to war. And Trump has just now given them wind in their sails (but this is not Trump’s war!). I really wonder how these people are going to cope when Russia blasts them out of the water (or the world)? Its worth listening to because in Trump’s view, the US has the best weapons in the world and Russia is 25 years behind.
If one looks at this with an analytic eye, Europe and NATO is not enthusiastically taking the role of the US Proxy for war against Russia. As Brian Berletic said so many times, it is simply a division of labor between the US and Europe and a strategic sequencing of wars. This is now screamingly obvious. We know about money laundering. Here the US is laundering a war.
Short comment by Brian Berletic
The Direction of US Foreign Policy…
It’s troubling to see even at this stage, people still arguing the US seeks to retreat from empire and accept multipolarism.
Nothing of the sort is happening…
Not even the US leaving Ukraine.
The US will fight to the last Ukrainian just as they promised they would, they themselves have said they will do so through “division of labor” and “strategic sequencing.”
It was never about defeating Russia, just extending it while the US made progress elsewhere (Syria for example which is now completely destroyed and captured by US proxies).
It is a mistake to underestimate US power and ambitions.
Months ago – before Trump took office – I warned that Trump would pick up right where Biden left off, not pivot toward multipolarism.
Since then, Trump took every Biden-era war and escalated them all.
All the fake division between “Trump” and Europe was purely to sell 5% GDP spending on NATO which is now underway.
Of course, regarding China, the US is more determined than ever.
Why would China be an exception when it is the HIGHEST of all US geopolitical priorities?
Some say nations tasked with confronting China have no motivation to comply to US demands.
But that’s not how it works.
If the US politically captures a nation, it installs a client regime that works for Washington and their own personal gain, not the nation they preside over, and will comply especially at the expense of the targeted nation.
That is why Ukraine and much of Europe are committing national suicide, and why nations in Asia likewise captured/even occupied by US troops will comply when tasked with hostility toward China even if it is self-destructive.
The Philippines is already decades behind the rest of ASEAN as a result of this process, Japan and South Korea play the same game as Europe of pretending to oppose US dictates time to time, but at critical junctures, they always comply.
This global conflict will continue until Russia, Iran, and China physically force the US to withdraw, not just itself, but overturn its client regimes as well – which will be more difficult, costly, violent, and time consuming than many people want to accept.
I understand why some people want to engage in wishful thinking, but now more than ever, especially people with influence, need to sound the alarm.
The West produces as much fog as possible, but Russia and China already have the best radar systems so can be steps ahead. It’s the final act upcoming and China takes finally its gloves off. President Xi: “China and Russia are not building an alliance. We are building a new… Read more »
Sergey Ryabkov puts a full-stop behind the madness. “But if Russia’s preference for a diplomatic solution on Ukraine is not met with a proper response, if we fail to achieve our goals through diplomacy, then the conflict will continue,” the deputy minister said. “We are unshakable in this position. We… Read more »
I must be missing something? The europeons are going to part with (inferior) weapons they possess but don’t really need unless they provoke Russia, to provoke Russia. Then place orders for their replacement which considering the difficulty in sourcing rare earth metals probably won’t be available until way after hostilities… Read more »
Insanity johnm33 – bear in mind this is now a perpetual war or being shaped into that.
first couple of mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC2UIAKPP1w
sorry – Judge with Amb Freeman
Mr.Lavrov from SCO TIANJIN /China/, July 15. /TASS/. Moscow would like to understand what US President Donald Trump meant by allocating 50 days to reach a settlement on Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, reiterating that the US leader had repeatedly set various deadlines. “Certainly, we would like to… Read more »
Amb Freeman states above video that in recent conversation between Putin and Trump that Putin told Trump that RF is ‘speeding up’ … would take the 4 oblasts within the next sixty days – which is what made Trump so angry (thus Trump’s 50 days?) The Amb’s statement negates the… Read more »
via https://t.me/VA_Nikonov/46434 ‼️Kyiv’s Air Defense in Question: US Runs Out of Patriot Missiles — Military Watch Magazine ▪️There will be no mass deliveries of Patriot systems and missiles for them to Ukraine in the foreseeable future, writes Military Watch Magazine, citing a critical shortage of interceptors in the US arsenal.… Read more »
A nothing burger? Oh No! A short comment by Peskov and Russia interpreted this insane meeting Trump/Rutte the only way that it can be interpreted. One has to mine underneath the theatrical. Kremlin responds to Trump’s 50-day ultimatum Ukraine perceives the US leader’s comments as “a signal to continue the… Read more »
This is Germany:
https://x.com/BowesChay/status/1944742745916023014
OK, we know we are working with the insane. Don’t know about you, but what I learned about analysis is that you always assume rational actors first. When the actors are irrational, problems arise. Take a look at Rutte, and it is explained here in the thread that he is… Read more »
This is going to be a hot topic for some days and weeks. So, I am collecting the comments here. Help if you can. Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó stated that Hungary will not finance the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine. We should not look at the fairy stories… Read more »
What Trump says is not necessarily what is going to happen, to say it politely. Voltaire already wrote that many battles have been ordered or stopped by the quality of the digestion of the emperor. And please forget what Rutte produces as verbal sounds, he is known to be a… Read more »
Hi Rob, yes, I think we know not to hear Trump’s words, but to look at action. And that is why I say, we must now check for the action. But you say Europe does not want war. Would you kindly take a look at what Ray McGovern says in… Read more »
Hi Amarynth, thx for sharing that video (LOL, ‘when you come to a fork in the road…’). Ray has a good point that the MSM is pouring fear into the brains of Europeans, but… wait. First, I sense a ‘Ukraine-fatigue’ around me, we are really fed up with it. Second,… Read more »
Let us not forget the concern that the Russians had about the idea of deploying patriot systems in Poland back in the day – they can be configured to launch offensive missiles in place of the ‘defensive’ AAD missles.
Hi Derrick, I understand your point, but those worries were not Patriots systems but Aegis, ‘sold’ as defensive against ‘Iranian threats’. In reality it was about possibilities to start a surprise nuclear attack by NATO on Russia. I think that when the RF senses (satellites and other recon) that such… Read more »
Poland has Aegis Ashore missile launchers, not Patriots. Romania also has Aegis Ashore missile launchers, not Patriots. They are nuke capable. But so are Tomahawk missiles. The difference is Aegis missiles could be first thought to be defensive and their flight time is very fast, so it takes a few… Read more »
Peskov on the German Defense Minister:
‘Germany becoming DANGEROUS AGAIN’ — Kremlin spox Peskov
Says hard to believe German DefMin Boris Pistorius talks of KILLING Russian soldiers
‘But, alas, this is so’
A quick response from the oily Steve Bannon, but he is right: BANNON: If Trump’s missiles hit Moscow, Russians won’t care if they were bought by the Europeans ‘NATO wants to stick it to him, because they want him as an active combatant’ Have the chances of US involvement just… Read more »
Maria Zakharova responded immediately. We will see more response as SCO is being prepared and will start tomorrow. “NATO Secretary General Rutte: “Putin did not send serious people to the negotiations. I remember how you, together with Marco Rubio and Steve Whitkoff, managed to start these negotiations in Istanbul. I… Read more »
some historian Ironically, Rutte graduated with a degree in history. I’m sure he never forgets that. He’s capable of saying anything to please. And he’s the longest-serving PM the Nether Regions (sorry Nico) ever had! I believe Rutte never married. So he has no spouse to explain to when he… Read more »
so a big fat nothin-burger.
Patriots cannot even defend themselves – they’re blown up weekly in 404.
Empire knows each move against Russia is a loss.
This was a circus “non-move move”
I would not say a nothing burger. Lots of weapons on the way and Europe Proxy encouraged to go to war. They do not expect Russia to do anything in the 50 days of course, as if Russia will fall for a threat. Yes, a circus but a circus that… Read more »
these are same weapons failing in 404. They MAY delay the inevitable — briefly.
“The move” would be to attack Moscow, using US long-range missiles. And it would stop being proxy war, but bring Punishment to CONUS.
Every move is zugzwang, hence the agonized dithering
You’re talking about the SMO. Yes, for the SMO. These Europeans are not planning to play by SMO rules. They’re planning war, like we saw in the 2ndWW. They want to kill Russians. Why do you think there are so many visits from the Russian leadership to the DPRK? The… Read more »
RE: DPRK, I concur. Kremlin should not wait. Bring 100,000 NK’s over the summer months. Some for de-mining, some for construction in Kursk and Donbass, and the rest for border and buffer zone combat.Make the war International on Russia’s side. Push the contact line west another 50-75 lms by years’s… Read more »