The 'backroom' boys of the EU and Great Britain are silently preparing for the defence of Ukraine.

The first lighning bolt has struck from the gathering international storm that Trump and his sidekick, Vance, has set in motion.

As Kevin Liptak, Samantha Waldenberg and Oren Liebermann reported,

"President Donald Trump is ordering a pause on shipments of US military aid to Ukraine after his heated Oval Office argument with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, a White House official told CNN Monday. (CNN: 3 March 2025) (my emphasis)

 

CNN: 4 March 2025: YouTube

They go further on to report that,

"It will remain in place until Trump determines Zelensky has made a commitment to seeking peace talks, one official said, essentially forcing Ukraine to a negotiating table by threatening further losses on the battlefield." (Ibid Kevin Liptak, Samantha Waldenberg and Oren Liebermann)

And in his report to Congress on 4 March, Trump revealed a letter sent to him by Zelensky, which massages Trump's ego by referring to his "strong" leadership, and stating that, "Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possibe, to bring lasting preace closer" (BBC: 5 March 2025) 

Forbes Breaking News: 5 March 2025: YouTube

At the same time, and before Congress, Trump said that,

"Simultaneously, we've had serious discussions with Russia, and I've received "strong" signals that they are ready for 'peace'." (ibid BBC)

What Trump let slip is that he possibly spoke to Putin when he received the letter from Zelensky and, it may be assumed, read him the contents thereof.

Which rather raises an important, yet "unspoken", possible relationship between Putin and Trump.

As Michael Hirsh (left) wrote in 2024,

"... the American public has no idea if Russian President Vladimir Putin has “something” on Trump—in other words, some compromising information about the would-be 47th president’s past, or what the Russians call kompromat." (Foreign Policy:30 October 2024) (my emphasis)

In 2020, during Trump's first presidency, Max Boot set out 18 reasons why Trump could be a Russian asset. (cf. Video below)

 

 CNN: 2020: YouTube

 And let us not forget the Steele Dossier of 2016, which emerged duringTrump's first presidential race, and which detailed some of Trump's actvities in Russia, as well as his compromising relationship with the Kremlin i.e. Putin.

More recently,  Joseph Camp reported,
 

"A former aide during Donald Trump's first term in office has given a scathing assessment of his former boss's relationship with Vladimir Putin - claiming he is being used a "puppet".

Trump’s former aide, Anthony 'The Mooch' Scaramucci (left), claims the firebrand Republican leader is the exact president that the Russian dictator wants in the White House." (The Mirror: 20 February 2025) (my emphasis)

As  Rachel Maddow (right), of MSNBC, also pointed out from Trump's recent meeting with Zelensky,

• Trump let slip that he spoke with Putin but a few days ago. No-one knew about this, neither do they know exactly how frequently Trump and Putin have their tête-à-tête's without ANYONE knowing about it and

• a Russian state media reporter from Tass gained entry into the Oval Office for the Trump-Zelesky sit down, even as AP (Associated Press) and Reuters were barred from this high-level meeting. (MSNBC:  March 2025) (my emphasis)

These concerns about the Trump/Putin relationship rather puts into perspective why Trump is so willing to :-

• concede to Putin's "Novorossiya" demands about what Putin wants from any so-called 'peace' deal with Ukraine, 
• Trump's demand that the US be given Ukraine's mineral wealth, 
• that Ukraine effectively concede to Putin's demand of 'total capitulation to Moscow, 
• black-mailing Ukraine by the witholding of US armaments aiding Ukraine in its defence of its territory against Putin's invasion and,
• as Alexander Smith reports, "President Donald Trump’s decision to pause American military aid to Ukraine is handing Russia’s Vladimir Putin the upper hand on the battlefield and in geopolitical negotiations, former officials and experts warned Tuesday." (NBC News on MSN: 4 March 2025) (my emphasis)

These are some of the facts that are focussing the minds of EU members and the UK in continuing their unwavering support of Ukraine.

It is therefore no wonder that, as reported by James Titcomb (left),

"Satellites backed by the British taxpayer could be used to replace Elon Musk’s Starlink in Ukraine as the United States withdraws its military support for the country.

OneWeb, the London-based subsidiary of French satellite company Eutelsat, said it was ready to “swiftly deploy” equipment to Ukraine." (The Telegraph: 4 March 2025) (my emphasis)

Furthermore, though Trump may be 'patting himself on the back' with all those tarrifs he's imposing upon many countries around the world, he is reaping the 'whirlwind of international reaction' that will soon be felt by the people of the US. 

As I wrote in my previous blog entry (1 March 2025),

"Putin is ecstatic that Trump is raising an IRON CURTAIN between the US and Europe, and between the US and Ukraine."

But Putin knows that the 'awakening' giant of the EU and Britain will not be held down, and that any of his  'nuclear' threats against Europe will be met with the 'nuclear' forces of Britain and France.

So whilst Putin's survival is hanging on by a thread, and Trump, Putin's possible asset, struts before his admirers in the US, the 'backroom' boys of the EU and Great Britain are silently preparing for the defence of Ukraine.

 

Lawrence O' Donnell: MSNBC: 4 March 2025: YouTube   

UPDATE: 5 March 2025: 19:07 GMT

As to be expected, Trump has now prevented the Ukraine army from using the US Himar missiles, for which Trump is exacting the price of  obtaining and, possibly, controlling, Ukraine's mineral resources, by switching off  US intelligence sharing with Ukraine.

 

The very sharing of intelligence information between the army of Ukraine and the army of the US, which served to protect Ukraine's civilians from Putin's 'flying' bombs, has been stopped.

 

As the BBC reports,

 

"US officials have confirmed that President Trump has suspended intelligence sharing with Ukraine on top of the pause in military assistance

"We have taken a step back, and are pausing and reviewing all aspects of this relationship," National Security Adviser Mike Waltz says" (BBC News: 5 March 2025) (my emphasis) 

This action of Trump gives the TOTAL LIE to his 'cracked record' repetition of wanting 'peace' since Putin can now, with impunity, bomb Ukrainian children, mothers, and civilians.

 

Trump may as well scream at the top of his lungs, and from the rooftops of the New York skyline, "Putin ... Kill the Ukrainians!!"

 

We now await that "Privileged Apartheid  Reared South African", 'PARSA Musk', switching off his Starlink being used by Ukraine's soldiers.

                                                                    

        

 

(to be continued)