President Donald Trump’s order to pause army support to Ukraine is a check of “how far he can go,” on pulling again US help for the nation because it fights Russia’s invasion, in line with Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent for The New York Times.
Trump’s resolution within the wake of his Oval Office argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday comes after weeks of friction between Washington and Kyiv, Haberman informed NCS’s Kaitlan Collins.
There was “pretty unanimous anger” inside the White House towards the Ukrainians and “a lot of tension” between Vice President JD Vance and Zelensky, Haberman stated.
Rather than seeing Ukraine as a European ally, Trump has considered the nation by means of an financial lens, she stated, citing a stalled mineral assets deal extensively seen as an try by the White House to make Kyiv repay US support with out offering safety ensures.
“(Trump) has asked virtually no concessions from (Russian leader Vladimir) Putin, while asking many from Zelensky,” Haberman stated.
“The Ukrainians say that they were presented with a deal, at the outset, that was not realistic for them, in which they got almost nothing,” she stated. “And I think you’re going to see Trump try to condition other agreements that way.”
While US public help for continued support to Ukraine could have fallen for the reason that begin of Russia’s full-scale invasion three years in the past, American help for Moscow and Putin will not be excessive both, Haberman stated.