So effectively, this would make NATO, not the U.S., the arbiter of the decision to provide military aid to Ukraine, a kind of loophole to Trump's aversion to American taxpayers footing the bill for Ukraine's defense. A Senate package that Senator Graham has pushed appears to have been reconfigured to give Trump the option to use these sanctions on and off at will, as a kind of snap pressure tactic on Moscow. MAYNES: So here, Poletaev says that Trump has little he can do to change the trajectory of the war, either towards peace or escalation so long - Poletaev adds - as Trump is unwilling to risk a conflict between the U.S. and Russia, two nuclear powers, directly.
Author: Charles Maynes
Published at: 2025-07-13 21:32:35
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