Trump is changing course: weapons for Ukraine and fresh start in the war

Trump is changing course: weapons for Ukraine and fresh start in the war

For a fleeting moment it could have the appearance that the conflict in the ukraine through a complete cycle. In the past 48 hours, US President Donald Trump may have expressed his most direct and determined words to arm Ukraine. At the same time, the government of the government in Washington gave significant signals that it has no interest in a realistic, negotiated end of the war.

Trump's clear announcement to support Ukraine

we start with Trump's comments on the armament of Ukraine, which represent a return to a cornerstone of US foreign policy-resistance to Russian aggression. "We will send more weapons," said the President on Monday about Ukraine. "We have to do that - Ukraine must be able to defend itself. They are hit very hard."

Behind him nodded his defense minister Pete Hegseth, despite the contradictions to the government's prior notice, to hire military deliveries. What exactly Meant Trump? He lacked details.

The role of the Pentagon and the conversations between Trump and Selenskyj

A spokesman for the Pentagon later explained that “At the instructions of President Trump, the Ministry of Defense sends additional defensive weapons to Ukraine to ensure that the Ukrainians can defend themselves while we are working on permanent peace and ending.”

This turn came just a few days after a phone call between Volodymyr Selenskyj and Trump, in which the two men spoke about joint arms production and air defense. Selenskyj urgently needs more Patriot interceptor rockets that are the only means to intercept Russian ballistic rockets and that can only be authorized by the USA.

reactions from Europe and the urgency for Selenskyj

Trump spoke to the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who offered to buy Patriots from the USA to make them available to Ukraine. Enough to make Selenskyj explain on Saturday that his phone call with Trump was “the best conversation that we had all the time, the most productive.”

The fact that Trump did not provide any details could be strategically or a consequence of his occasional aversion to details. While Trump briefly listened to the armament of Ukraine as his predecessor Joe Biden, there is a striking difference. Biden gave publicly painfully detailed information about any ability he made available to Kiev in the hope that this transparency would avoid a sudden escalation with Moscow.

The challenges for Ukraine

The recent, record -breaking Russian use of drones to the attack on Kiev may have revealed critical weaknesses in the capital's air defense systems. These only worsened without replenishment, at a time when Ukraine reported that 160,000 Russian troops massage themselves in the north and east of the front lines. The coming months will be unpredictable and crucial for Kiev, even with the United States' military support.

Putin's strategy and the geopolitical implications

Putin's rational rejection of real diplomacy is simple. He (incorrectly) sold this war as an existential conflict between Russia and its traditional values and a liberal, expansionist and aggressive NATO. In order not to undermine the urgency of this wrong story, he cannot respond to American conditions.

So Putin and Trump see themselves again at the point at which Russia and the United States were in 2022 for a short moment. According to reports, Moscow reports tens of thousands of soldiers who are preparing for the invasion of Ukraine again. Diplomacy seems senseless. Washington has to help Ukraine so as not to expose itself to the global shame - the loss of his military hegemony. And the Ukraine still stands there, in the middle and observes how the two powers fluctuate on both sides and rotate while it remains steadfast.