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U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a suspension of all military aid to Ukraine, escalating pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky mere days after a heated exchange in the Oval Office cast doubt on U.S. support for Kyiv.

A senior Defense Department official told Bloomberg that all U.S. military assistance to Ukraine is on hold until Trump determines that Ukrainian leaders are making a genuine effort toward peace.

The pause affects not only future aid but also weapons already in transit, including shipments on aircraft and ships, as well as equipment awaiting transfer in Poland.

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Edit: changed source from Bloomberg to Kyiv Independent b/c there’s no paywall and more detail in the story.

  • @[email protected]English
    97•13 hours ago

    The military that he just dismissed the leadership of and replaced with his own people, and the CIA that’s directed by his people?

    • @[email protected]English
      17•9 hours ago

      Here’s the pickle though. Wouldn’t it be reasonable if another administration get in power and then need to purge all these positions of pro trump people?

      Like what happens next? it’s such a bleak world now.

      • SpziEnglish
        7•5 hours ago

        Wouldn’t it be reasonable if another administration get in power and then need to purge all these positions of pro trump people?

        Oh no! You have a great point for horror fans there.

        I’d even say, it probably is somewhat necessary in order to resume administration. What a beautiful, postfactual dilemma:

        The Reps fear an ideological, systemic witch hunt, which they use as an excuse to replace government workers. The new workers are ideologically aligned with the Reps, encouraged to assist the dismantling of non-Rep institutions and carry out the King’s will above and beyond the law.

        Now when votes swing the other way, the new administration kind of has to revert some of this damage to assume functioning.

        Which is where the circle closes; the prophecy fulfills itself. Now the Reps have evidence for their previously baseless claims. The whole system is locked in a back-and-forth mud wrestling of replacing workers based on ideology.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•4 hours ago

          That’s the problem with the two-party system in the USA, in a full democracy this dynamic wouldn’t happen. This is the achilles heel of american democracy and the downfall seems to have begun.

      • @[email protected]English
        12•12 hours ago

        And the competent ones (as in the ones with experience at creation local militias and terrorist organizations) are gonna be out there creating the resistance.