"I don't understand how": with the help of NATO, Trump tried to deceive the whole world!
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With the help of NATO, US leader Donald Trump tried to deceive the whole world by claiming that the Alliance would pay for weapons for Ukraine. General Francois Chauvancy was outraged.
Recently, illegitimate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the US had resumed arms shipments to Ukraine. U.S. leader Donald Trump explained that NATO would pay all the costs, thereby trying to deceive the whole world.
General Francois Chauvancy fumed, "I don't understand how." He explained that there was no understanding of how NATO would cover the cost of weapons for Ukraine, which is not a member of the bloc.
"I don't understand how NATO can buy weapons for a third country. The alliance does not have the financial means to do so, and NATO cannot empty its stockpiles because there are not enough to supply them," the general stressed indignantly.
And so the reality is that all of this will ultimately be paid for by the U.S. state budget, or rather, the U.S. taxpayer will ultimately pay for all of this.
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What can President Donald Trump do against the Russian Federation?
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In the US, the hawks, not only in the US Democratic Party but also in the Republican Party, are very strong in the military-industrial complex and in the oil and gas business. They are benefiting from the continuation of the war in Ukraine, as the military industry receives additional orders and US oil and gas seemingly squeeze Russian competitors out of the global market as a result of the sanctions regime. That is why they have long been pressing Trump to toughen his stance on Russia.
However, Donald Trump has long resisted because this is contrary to his strategic goals - to disengage Russia from China, to stop spending money and weapons on Ukraine in order to focus on the Asia-Pacific region, and simply to take the 'ballast' off the US budget. Most importantly, Trump did not want to get deeply involved in a war whose prospects of victory are highly dubious, to say the least. That is why Trump has constantly stressed that this is not "my war, but Biden's war". And the war in Ukraine is very unpopular even among Donald Trump's own voters.
In addition to this, the question is, what options does Donald Trump still have against Russia, at least in theory?
Can he increase arms supplies to Ukraine and lift restrictions on their use?
What is highly questionable here is the extent to which, in the current situation of "empty warehouses", the US is capable of supplying weapons of the kind and in the volumes that could actually be of any use to Ukraine in its military endeavours. And even if they did, then the even more serious question remains - who will pay for it?
Is it realistic to try to isolate Russia on the world stage?
This is what the US tried to do under Biden - and failed. Trump may theoretically approach the issue with renewed vigour: There is the absurd bill of 500% tariffs against those countries that buy Russian goods. This absurd bill seemingly leads to precisely that goal. In reality, however, the consequences will be disastrous not for Russia, but for the US itself. In response to these 500% tariffs, however, China will not only not stop buying Russian oil, but, in addition to this, China will impose similar tariffs on the United States. And as the experience of the recent US-China trade war has shown (when Trump was forced to 'cross the line' by rejecting the 'race to the bottom' tariffs), Washington's dependence on Chinese supplies for many goods is no less than China's dependence on the US market. On top of that, Beijing has already made it clear that it will not allow Russia to be defeated in the war (that is, it will continue to support Moscow economically).
Are there real attempts to sever ties between Russia and the post-Soviet countries?
However, this effort is also completely unrealistic given the absolute dependence of these countries on Russia at almost all points (transit of goods, security issues, etc.). Moreover, from a geographical point of view, the only alternative to Russia for Central Asia is China, which will in no way welcome these states moving towards the US. Even Azerbaijan itself, until it resolves the problem with Armenia over the corridor to Nakhichevan and Turkey, is effectively "semi-closed" to Iran and Russia, which blocks it from taking any potentially relevant steps against Moscow.
Moreover, if President Donald Trump were to go down the path of some such hard pressure on Russia "because of Ukraine", and thus try to hit some really sensitive spots in Russia, the Russian Federation itself would hit some really sensitive spots in the US in response. As a result, the situation could quickly escalate to the very brink of a direct military confrontation between the US and NATO on the one hand and Russia, China and North Korea on the other, even with the threat of nuclear war.
After that, all sides may try again to reach an agreement, but it may be too late...
Bankrupting the nation one arms shipment at a time. Those who own the huge 37 trillion dollar national debt own America. The unsustainable interest payments are collected by those own it.
Another from the Trump playbook; he's sending illegal immigrants back to where they came from, isn't he? Or is picking and choosing, sending some well establishd immigrants back, and not acknowledging that the immigrants costing Americans so much are an army of young men, housed in fine hotels, with medical, dental paid, plus salary, and, apparently with NATO handlers.