What Trump most wants out of the Ukraine-Russia war is a Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end it. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.su:
Trump doesn’t genuinely want Ukraine to take back territories, Martin Jay writes.
Just when you think you have your head around Donald Trump’s strategy in Ukraine, he shifts the ground and you’re left scratching your head again wondering what just happened. Just recently we all had this moment when Trump announced a kind of U-turn on Ukraine and Russia and seemed to be talking up Kiev getting a new level of support from the U.S.
On September 23rd, at the UNGA meeting in New York City, he is reported to have said “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,” Trump wrote. “With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option.”
At the time, this captured the attention of western media while stunning leaders around the world. Previously, we should recall, he was pushing for a new deal whereby Ukraine would never be able to reclaim all the territory that Russia has occupied since seizing the Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
And so, this flip-flop played into the hands of Zelensky and European leaders who believed that finally their day had come. But journalists could not go deeper and see what was the real move here. In reality, he was signalling to Putin to get on with the war and make decisive victories which will bring everyone to the table again but whereby the realities are tilted towards an outcome, rather than political posturing and empty statements. Trump was being duplicitous in that he doesn’t genuinely want Ukraine to take back territories. It is simply that he is only interested, fundamentally, in one thing which is important to remember which is keeping everyone confused and dazed by his enigma. Remaining misunderstood and hiding behind ambiguity and opaque statements is really the core of who Trump is. This is where he operates and is comfortable. Don’t judge him by his statements, but by his actions.
What Bibi wants Bibi gets and Heavenly Jerusalem is still the oligarch plan for Ukraine.
They want the territories back to shell the citizens?
Read one earlier that most aid money to 404 ends up stolen or missing.