Instead of maximizing leverage for a deal, we're preemptively surrendering, cutting off Ukrainian military aid and intelligence sharing and stopping cyber operations against Russia. - ThreadSky

brendannyhan.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Instead of maximizing leverage for a deal, we're preemptively surrendering, cutting off Ukrainian military aid and intelligence sharing and stopping cyber operations against Russia.

Reposted from Financial Times

FT Exclusive: The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces. www.ft.com/content/c58f...

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ajgenz.bsky.social•1 day ago

Technically, we are maximizing leverage, just not for Ukraine.

heroinsmoker.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump is following Putin’s orders. Simple as that.

goldenretrieverear.bsky.social•1 day ago

Putin is offering him more in cybercurrency under the table than Zelenskyy is.
It is nothing more or less than that.
Trump has turned the US into his own personal protection racket.

laurentguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

“Surrendering” doesn’t quite capture our new stance. We’re actually in the process of switching sides. Soon we will threaten Europe for helping Ukraine resist Russia.

thehube.bsky.social•1 day ago

We aren’t in the process any longer. We switched.

b1keridingpinko.ca•1 day ago

Forgiveness of the USA when this is all over, Fascist regimes never last forever, is going to take a long long time to come. We'll make new friends and trading partners and move on with our lives as will the rest of the world. #TheNewAxisOfEvil

ricpt.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump is forcing Ukraine to capitulate, not Russia.

kkarrla.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump pursues his personal interests at the expense of the national interests, which he rarely understands anyways, and his personal interest is in appearing to be a deal maker so he always settles for a PR release he can portray as a success even if it's another obscenely weak unilateral surrender

kkarrla.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's also compromised by a lifetime of secret dealings with Russia

kkarrla.bsky.social•1 day ago

People will watch Trump do quid pro quo after quid pro quo and then take Mueller's narrowly missing being able to prove a quid pro quo with Russia beyond a reasonable doubt in court as definitive evidence of the absence of one that justifies taking Trump's stated motives towards Russia at face value

vs-phd.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Trump doesn't want leverage. He wants Russia to win.

j-waller55.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is this a new development after Zelenskyy sent his letter to Trump (the one Trump read last night during his State of the Union address)?

various-threnodies.bsky.social•1 day ago

It makes sense when you realize that Trump's goal is to secure a deal maximally beneficial to Russia

thehube.bsky.social•1 day ago

That isn’t his goal. His goal is to punish Ukraine and Zelensky personally for not caving to his extortion in Trump’s first term.

various-threnodies.bsky.social•1 day ago

What better way to punish Zelensky than to force him to swallow a deal that's maximally beneficial to Russia?

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