Trump pressured Europe with threat to stop weapons supplies to Ukraine, FT says

Trump has shown he’s sympathetic to Putin and dislikes supporting Ukraine since day 1. What else is new?

Correction: ~~Supplies~~ Sale >*Trump "made his disappointment with NATO and other allies clear."* Because of threats and bitching around, we, as NATO, are dissapointed with Trump.

According to the FT he threw a hissy fit because Europe Wouldn’t bail him out

Trump obeys Putin.

Trump is a fascist moron.

Europe should decisively support Ukraine now. The balance would change.

US hasn't been supplying weapons directly to Ukraine for a year. European countries are BUYING those weapons. If the US becomes unreliable as an arms supplier, they will have to be replaced.

Maybe Europe should threaten to rescind purchases of US equipment if Trump continues with his pressure tactic; Trump has no cards and he can f*** off.

Should Europe help him, he will say at next press confrence that they are weak and stupid because they come to his aid always, he just needs to say the word

Russian plant supports Russia.

This will have a long term very negative effect for US defense industry in Europe and possibly the rest of the world. Countries are rapidly seeking alternatives.

America betrayed Europe. America doesn't get to blame everything on Trump, Americans voted for him, twice, he represents America and it is America threa... betraying all their allies. It is America that is blatantly in cahoots with Russia, they voted for it and they need to own it or they won't f**king learn.

Wasn't Ukraine forced to basically pay for their own weapons supplies, bought in the US anyway? So, a refusal like this would dirdctly hurt the US weapons industry directly...

Perhaps best for NATO to just st kick us out. How do we trust secrets aren’t being sent to Moscow. We want to be left alone. Let’s have at it. See how that goes.

Europe is not dumb enough to get involved in an unwinable war on behalf of a man who has spent the last year abusing them. Besides, what Trump is really looking for is someone to shift the blame to when the operation goes completely pear shaped.

I lowkey doubt if he's sane

extortion thats his art. he's a conman, nothing about him is real not even his destane, he cant feel anything but arrogance. empires dont always fall due to external forces. sometimes institutes just stop operating, sometimes there riots and looting, sometimes its inflation so high its currency is worthless, being a millionaire will mean having a hundred bucks. Because so much of the global financial system is built on the "full faith and credit" of the US, a total collapse of the dollar would essentially reset the global economy to zero. is this what trump is trying to do? By printing money to pay off loyalists or fund "vanity projects," they increase the supply of money without increasing the supply of goods. This leads to hyperinflation. this is something i see on the cards with the USA. i dont know why. i think the real crime is having a corrupt government with an idiot ogre in charge, thats, incredible, its almost amazing how well he's doing at being everything everyone says and things about him

Bro is really holding the loot drops hostage to grief his own teammates. Treating global security like a mafia shakedown is actually crazy work. Zelensky looking at him like he just threw the entire match.

I see the USA is doing the old "I'll take my ball and go home" routine.

NATO is formed because of Russia. Doing anything that benefits Russia is the last thing they want.

What’s next? Will he threaten to hold his breath until he gets his way?

LBC spent an hour today discussing how Trump now clearly appears to be a Russian asset and how almost everything he's doing is the thing of Putin's dreams. The evidence was very damning.

Wasn’t literally the whole f****** point to make Europe take care of Ukraine instead of US? Wasn’t that literally the entire f****** “message”?

Blackmail…. That’s something the mob likes to Do.

Europe is paying for those weapons, so he’ll only damage the US.

Halt all NATO contracts! That will teach him!

This again…

Russia already won WC26 and they weren't even invited. This is comical levels of embarrassment.   You've become entirely conquered America

Europe threatens to dump all those bonds and buy oil, gold in euro’s . Your call trump

So Putin gets his oil back to sell and Ukraine loses its ability to fight…. almost like it was planned from the beginning to attack Iran.

The US is not supplying weapons to Ukraine, it is selling them to Nato-Countries for a profit, who then supply Ukraine with those weapons.

You mean the ones he's diverting to fight Iran?

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To bad he lost that leverage when he stopped supplying them to Ukraine. The weapons that are sent now, are bought by Europe and Ukraine.

Cost of support UA is much less then any Middle Easter adventure. How much money would cost decent European fleet per day? What we will do there anyway? It has massive political cost too. Europe should just ram up military production for Ukraine and themself. And finally accept that alliance is over.

“Pressure” oh, you mean threats to our allies?

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So you threaten to withhold weapons from a country actively helping against Iran. Then cry when no one else wants to help. Boy it will be a happy day to print a certain persons obituary

No wonder this guy bankrupted a c*****. Our economy is tanking, he’s added trillions of debt, and his answer is to stop selling to our allies… Republicans, this is your guy. No more wars, wasteful spending, America first, release the Epstein files… impeach this idiot

From the very first paragraph of the linked article… *US President Donald Trump threatened to halt weapons supplies to Ukraine if European allies did not join a coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,* [*the Financial Times*](https://www.ft.com/content/d304071a-ca97-4b3b-be93-ff880a6645c3?syn-25a6b1a6=1) *reports.*

I mean both wars a meaningless, logically. But both are profitable for raytheon, empirically.