March 1, 2025 (EIRNS)—Trump Administration policy shifts already underway with respect to Russia and Ukraine are becoming more pronounced in the wake of President Donald Trump kicking Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy out of the White House yesterday. One senior administration official told the Washington Post that the Trump administration is considering ending all ongoing shipments of military aid to Ukraine in response to Zelenskyy’s perceived intransigence in the face of Trump’s desire to quickly solve the Ukraine conflict. The decision, if taken, would apply to billions of dollars of radars, vehicles, ammunition and missiles awaiting shipment to Ukraine through the presidential drawdown authority, said the official. A former senior defense official from the Biden administration told the New York Times that the last of the arms Ukraine had purchased from U.S. military companies would be shipped within the next six months.
After Friday’s blowup in the Oval Office, a Trump administration official told the New York Times that the President might even decide to end even the indirect support being provided by the U.S., which includes other types of military financing, intelligence sharing, training for Ukrainian troops and pilots, and hosting a call center that manages international aid at a U.S. military base in Germany.
Regarding the now-moribund minerals deal, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce, speaking late Feb. 28 on Fox Business, speculated that Zelenskyy “is maybe having some second thoughts” about questioning Trump in the Oval Office, “but he has a chance to turn this around and he probably can.” She said that the blowup “doesn’t mean that [the deal] still can’t be done” and that Zelenskyy “has choices to make.”
