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President Donald Trump walked out of his Tuesday assembly with Volodymyr Zelensky with a hope-filled revelation: Ukrainians can take their nation back. All of it.
After his sitdown with Ukraine’s president. Trump posted on Truth Social: “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form” and “who knows, maybe even go further than that!”
This is a game-changing 180; as lately as mid-August, the prez’s place was that peace would require Kyiv to cede a minimum of some territory to Moscow.
His causes for now saying Ukraine can win: Russia appears to be like like a “paper tiger,” crippled after “fighting aimlessly for three and a half years” in a battle that ought to have taken “less than a week to win.”
All proof factors to the Russian bear being as mangy as Trump suggests: The Kremlin’s drone incursions into Poland and Estonia’s airspace (and presumably Denmark’s, too) seem like determined scare ways, meant to panic the West into fearing a wider battle.
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Meanwhile, its financial system now depends virtually solely on battle manufacturing and oil exports — with the latter hit exhausting by Kyiv’s wildly efficient strikes on refineries.
Cheers the president: “Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act.”
Amen to that, sir: Now give Kyiv what it wants to do the job.
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Trump has already stated Washington will keep promoting our NATO companions weapons to dish out to Ukraine as they see match; he can up the strain for peace by guaranteeing Kyiv will get an inflow of much-needed artillery, air-defense systems and drones and lifting all restrictions on the use of Western-supplied weapons.
And hit the “paper tiger” with one other hammer — secondary sanctions towards international locations nonetheless shopping for up Russian oil, primarily China and India.
Trump has waffled on this, threatening Vladimir Putin with a 10-day deadline back in July, then this month hinging recent US sanctions on new calls for on Europeans.
And Putin’s solely elevated his behind-the-lines assaults on civilians, whereas throwing troops into the front-line buzzsaw to gain naked yards of territory — hoping that terror and a few air of inevitable Russian victory will break his enemies’ will.
The longer the near-impasse goes on, the more pointless deaths on each side.
Our president wants to stick to his new, powerful line: No more telegraphing to Putin that he’s keen to pressure Ukraine to settle for the unattainable.
Now is the time to be decisive: Moscow is on its back heel; an finish to this battle is within attain.
Ukrainians can land the ultimate blow — and Trump can help them do it.
