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<br>- In the summer of 2019, to assist his re-election chances, President Trump with-held desperately needed aid to Ukraine as leverage to get an investigation going on Hunter Biden which resulted in Trump's impeachment. Trump has never forgiven Zelensky and Ukraine. Later, when Biden was President, Trump and his allies blocked aid for 6 to 8 months to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, using immigration as an excuse. In April 2024 Congress finally approved a $95 Billion dollar aid package to these American allies. The delayed aid resulted in the loss of Ukrainian lives, infrastructure and strategically important territory putting Ukraine on the "back foot" as it faced the full power of Putin's war machine.
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<br>-Putin and Trump had a one and a half hour call on 2/12/2025. On 2/28/2025 we witnessed the staged Oval office blowup between Trump, Vance and Zelensky creating a media frenzy. THE OVAL OFFICE BLOWUP PROVIDED A DISTRACTION AND AN EXCUSE SO THAT TRUMP ON MARCH 3RD STRIPPED INTELLIGENCE SHARING WITH UKRAINE ON TARGETS WITHIN RUSSIA JUST AS THE RUSSIAN AND NORTH KOREAN MILITARIES PREPARED AN OFFENSIVE AGAINST UKRAINE'S TROOPS IN KURSK. On March 8th, North Korean and Russian troops launched their successful offensive against the "blinded" Ukrainian forces. On March 11th, Trump allowed intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Russia regained most of the Kursk region stating that Ukraine had agreed to take steps toward peace. Ukraine lost an important bargaining chip in Kursk impacting future peace negotiations. What did Putin and President Trump discuss on their 2/12/2025 phone call????
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<br> - On March 2, 2025, the United States voted with Russia and its AXIS allies in the UN General Assembly against a resolution condemning Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine.
<br>-On June 1st Ukraine devastated Russian strategic bombers with the tactically brilliant "SPIDER WEB" operation. On June 4th Trump had another telephone call with Putin where Trump told Putin he did not know about the operation beforehand. Trump has made no public statement about "Spider Web", but he did say that Putin threatened serious retaliation against Ukraine. -ON JUNE 5TH TRUMP STOPPED THE DELIVERY OF ANTI-DRONE TECHNOLOGY TO UKRAINE A DAY AFTER HIS CALL TO PUTIN. On June 5th, Trump stopped the delivery of 20,000 anti-drone missiles that had been promised to Ukraine and diverted them to US forces in the Middle East even though he knew Ukraine desperately needed the APKWS (Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System) with proximity fuses to protect its cities and citizens. Trump knew Russian drone and missile attacks were targeting and killing Ukrainian civilians and destroying infrastructure making Trump's action a punishment for Ukraine and a strategic benefit for the Russian military as it conducts its war of terror on the brave Ukrainian people.
<br> -On June 3, 2025, Pete Hegseth was the first Defense Secretary to skip a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO HQ sending a signal that America cannot be counted on to support Ukraine against Russia's brutal invasion.
<br>- On June 16th, Trump left the G-7 meeting in Canada early on so he did not have to meet Zelensky or work with our allies on Russian sanctions and military aid to Ukraine while saying Russia should not have been excluded from G-7 after its invasion of Ukraine in 2014. We must remember that Russia's occupation of Ukraine and military aggression against Ukraine continued during Trump's entire first term (2016-2020) in spite of the Minsk agreement.
<br> -On Wednesday July 2nd, 2025, the Pentagon stopped Ukraine's promised critically needed aid that was already in Poland awaiting delivery without giving Ukraine official notice of the cutoff. Such an abrupt cancellation handicaps Ukraine in its war planning and its defense of its civilian population and its cities. The public cutoff of aid to Ukraine in the middle of the largest drone, and missile attacks of the war only aids Russia as it continues its aerial attacks on civilians, women and children, and infrastructure. On July 3rd, Trump had another call to Putin. Trump said that he did not make any progress with Putin and found the continued massive attacks on Ukraine "disappointing". According to Russian media: " the fewer weapons supplied to Ukraine, the closer we will be to the end of the conflict". Shipments withheld from Ukraine included " Patriot Air Defense Interceptors, air to air missiles, hellfire air to ground missiles, surface to surface rockets, artillery rounds, and stinger surface to air missiles."(WSJ 7/3/2025). ON July 9th, Trump released some "defensive" weapons, and on July 11th (PBS News) Trump promised to sell weapons to NATO that are earmarked for Ukraine but rejected new US military authorizations for Ukraine.
<br> -On August 15th 2025, Trump's Alaska Summit with Putin ( who was greeted on a red carpet) undercut the view that Russia is isolated economically and politically, producing no progress toward peace while Russia continued its war of terror on Ukrainians unhindered. -On October 16th, The Trump call with Putin a day before Trump was meeting with President Zelensky has once again meant that Trump will continue to deny aid and long-range tomahawks to Ukraine.
<br>-On February 14, 2026 Marco Rubio met President Zelensky individually at the Munich Security Conference, but skipped a meeting with Zelensky and our closest NATO allies to avoid discussing the war and America's negotiations with Russia sending a "clear signal that the US is not aligned on what remains the gravest threat to our NATO allies security" WSJ 2/19/2026 A-15. Rubio never mentioned Russia in his address and left the summit for meetings with Russian proxies Hungary and Slovakia.
<br>-In March 2026 the Trump administration created a financial windfall for Russia by loosening restrictions on Russian oil exports that were designed to pressure the Kremlin over the war in Ukraine. Washington justified this action because it was seeking to ease the shock in energy markets from the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on 3/6 issued a 30-day waiver of sanctions on Russian oil. Trump followed this concession with a call to Putin on 3/9/2026. At the same time, Russia is providing targeting data to Iran for its missile and drone attacks on the US and its Gulf state allies. The Sanctions waiver was extended for three months and finally expired on June 17th 2026.Monday .
<br> -7/20/2026 Congress considers a sanctions package on Russia that was co-sponsored by Senator Blumenthal and recently deceased Senator Lindsey Graham. President Trump should finally support and sign this bipartisan legislation!!!
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<br>- Why should North Korea use Russian targeting systems to launch the North Korean Zircon ballistic missile against Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure, but Elon Musk and Star-Link will not allow Ukraine the targeting capability that would allow Ukraine to hit ballistic missile production facilities and the infrastructure in Russia that supports North Korean and Russian ballistic missile attacks? Why does an individual- Musk- make decisions about a critically important global navigation and targeting system when these decisions should be controlled by Space Force and the US military with input from Congress and the US intelligence services???WHEN MUSK AND TRUMP CAPITULATE TO RUSSIA BY RESTRICTING THE USE OF STAR-LINK BY UKRAINE ON TARGETS WITHIN RUSSIA, THEY ARE ONLY HELPING RUSSIA ACHIEVE ITS WAR GOALS, ENCOURAGING RUSSIA TO ESCALATE THE CONFLICT WITH BALLISTIC MISSILES, AND PROLONGING THE WAR WHILE CONTRIBUTING TO NEEDLESS UKRAINIAN DEATHS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE!!!
<br> - President Trump should allow Ukraine and our NATO allies to obtain the Patriot Missile license so that Ukraine can stop Russia from killing Ukrainians with ballistic missiles and NATO will be able to protect its population and critical infrastructure from future Russian and AXIS missile attacks!!! The US and its allies must immediately ramp up development and production of anti-ballistic missile defense systems!!!<br>
<br>-Finally, America should restore military, economic, and political support for the brave Ukrainian people!!
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<br>PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE US, RUSSIA AND UKRAINE:
<br>– Putin's goal in negotiations with the Trump administration is not to reach a peace agreement, but to weaken his Ukrainian opponent, to gain leverage with outlandish demands, to delay American and European support for Ukraine, and to spread Russian propaganda and misinformation justifying Russia's illegal invasion. For Russia, Foreign policy is only a tool to manipulate adversaries, to shape the battlefield, and to manage the global perception of the Ukraine/Russian war. To Putin's Russia, Western shared values, the rules-based order, and democratic elections are seen as weaknesses and vulnerabilities to be exploited. Putin only respects strength and strong resolve. For Putin's Russia, capitulation only encourages a further escalation.
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<br>UKRAINE IS THE FRONT LINE IN THE GLOBAL DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM AGAINST AXIS IMPERIALISM AND A TOTALITARIAN WORLD ORDER! Surrendering Ukraine to Russia or rewarding Russia for its illegal invasion would be a tragic loss for the entire future of humanity, and a Russian victory will only embolden further aggression by the AXIS, its allies and proxies. The only path toward peace in Europe would be if Ukraine is integrated into both NATO and the EU with the full support of the United States of America! David A. Mangs Ph.D.