US President Donald Trump’s drive to quickly end the war has fizzled, but the crucial shift in his policy is that he finally realises that russian leader vladimir putin is largely responsible for thwarting his efforts.
This is what The Telegraph reports.
And, according to the publication, the sudden removal of Mike Waltz as national security adviser can also be interpreted as a move in this direction, despite Waltz’s own “hawkish” views on russia.
“The removal of a hawk, deeply distrusted by his political base, could give Trump the cover he needs to change course and, paradoxically, move towards the policies his former national security adviser recommended,” the article says.
As The Telegraph points out, Trump is beginning to understand that the obstacle to his ambitions to end the war in Ukraine is not in Kyiv, but in the Kremlin. And now, as the publication notes, two important tests will show whether US policy has really changed and whether putin has finally pushed Trump away.
The first is whether additional aid shipments will follow the supply of weapons to Ukraine this week. And the second is whether Trump will support the bill proposed by Senator Lindsey Graham to impose sanctions on russia.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, in March, Waltz found himself at the center of a major scandal. He organized a group chat on the Signal messenger for senior White House officials, in which strikes on the Houthis were discussed. The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to the chat. There were 18 people in the chat, including the president's national security adviser, Mike Waltz.
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