With Putin digging in, it’s time for Trump to send – Latest News
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made no bones about it in his call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Moscow’s not in any peace that doesn’t quantity to Kyiv’s full give up — which suggests President Donald Trump can’t get the cease-fire he desires except he offers Vladimir Putin causes to cut his losses now.
Whatever bull Putin pitched to Trump of their call final week, the Kremlin refuses to offer something that will make a face-to-face in Budapest well worth the journey.
Trump’s choices embrace sending Tomahawk and Barracuda cruise missiles to Ukraine — maybe a few at first, however with more prepared to observe — to let Kyiv hit Moscow’s vitality industry and weapons factories deep inside Russia.
As effectively as lastly implementing “secondary sanctions” to slam China and different nations which might be shopping for big quantities of Russian oil to fund Putin’s struggle machine.
Putin’s nonetheless making an attempt to bomb (and drone) Ukraine into submission with fixed assaults on civilians — however he’s additionally beginning to run out of our bodies to throw into the grinder on the entrance, whereas falling world oil costs squeeze his treasury.
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When the Russian autocrat isn’t insisting he’s on observe to defeat Ukraine outright (practically 4 years after he invaded), he’s acquired his minions insisting that additional help to Kyiv will set off a nuclear struggle: It’s all nothing however clumsy mind-games.
Kudos to Rubio for forcing Lavrov to admit Putin nonetheless gained’t bend an inch; now it’s up to Trump to make him bend.
