Trump Was Told Harsh ‘No’ In Ukraine

Statements by European politicians inspire optimism.

For several days in a row, we have been observing harsh rhetoric from US President Donald Trump towards Ukraine. What is behind these statements? Charter97.org spoke with Ukrainian military-political observer of the Information Resistance group Oleksandr Kovalenko:

— It should be understood that Donald Trump is not a professional politician. First and foremost, he is a businessman, so all these high-flown diplomatic statements, any political correctness, and the like are not typical of him. He acts as a businessman, but during his first term, he was still held back by his entourage.

Now, there are many people in Trump's entourage who are not hardened politicians to the core, but rather those who were more involved in hype than politics.

Therefore, there is no restraining and balancing element next to Donald Trump now.

But the special wave of statements that we are now hearing about Ukraine from Donald Trump was catalyzed when the United States received a refusal from Volodymyr Zelensky to conclude a contract, which was supposed to be on rare earth metals.

Ukraine proposed one of the options for cooperation with the United States, this is the use of Ukrainian deposits and resources on an equal basis, based on investments. That is, priority in matters of exploration and extraction of resources from the depths of Ukraine would be given to American companies. But, as expected, equal rights, equal shares were implied, and not what the White House proposed.

And the White House proposed practically slave conditions with long-term control of the resource base of Ukraine. We will never agree to this. But Donald Trump believed that he could very quickly conclude for himself a simply phenomenal deal on control of Ukrainian resources, while he had not yet done anything special for Ukraine itself. And, of course, this refusal outraged him, I would even say more -— it infuriated him.

That is why Donald Trump is now throwing bile, he has not achieved any serious success in those loud statements that were made much earlier. The issue with Greenland is absolutely not resolved, the Panama Canal also ended in a fiasco for Donald Trump. Canada, which was supposed to become the 51st state of the USA, has now consolidated, and when the US anthem is played at hockey games, Canadians simply boo it in unison.

The only thing that Donald Trump has achieved is to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. This is his main achievement over the past month. And, of course, in Ukraine Donald Trump is being harshly answered with a “no” to his inappropriate and irrational proposals. And this is a fiasco of sorts.

For Donald Trump, this is a month of reputational losses, not any achievements. Well, unless, of course, you count the renaming of the Gulf on the geographical map.

— Can Europe accept the assistance to Ukraine that the USA provided?

— Of course, Europe's potential is lower than that of the United States. Until now, in the third year of the war, the full-scale and bloodiest one that has been taking place on the European part of the continent since World War II, Europe has not yet emerged from hibernation.

Its military-industrial complex, its enterprises, have not reached the level at which even some military-industrial enterprises of Ukraine are. There are some categories in which we produce more in a month, in a year, than all the military-industrial enterprises of Europe produce annually.

Now Trump's statements are like a cold shower for Europe. And I think it will become more active in this direction. Moreover, the latest statements by the same Annalena Baerbock and Ursula von der Leyen motivate, and this is positive, that Europe will try to help Ukraine more.

And at the same time, it should be understood that the Russian army today is no longer the army that was in 2022, 2023 and even 2024. The capabilities of the Russian army are now significantly smaller, it is exhausted, it is weakened. And if we talk about the end of support for Ukraine by the United States, then we have already had such a precedent. In 2023, in October, the Trumpist wing of the Republicans in Congress began to block aid to Ukraine. And this block lasted for six months.

We survived these six months, it was a very difficult period, but we survived. And then it was much more difficult than now. Therefore, the United States, of course, can make such a feint. But I do not think that Ukraine will suffer from this more than bilateral relations between Ukraine and the United States will suffer, which is not beneficial to the United States itself.

Again, how can you make America great again if you are plunging your country into deeper and deeper isolationism? And this is exactly the path that Donald Trump is taking now.

— Who will be Ukraine's key ally in this situation?

— First of all, the European Union. There are, of course, black sheep in the form of Viktor Orbán and Fico, but overall I see the EU as consolidated.

On the other hand, there are other possibilities, let’s say so, even on the Asian bridgehead. The Asian bridgehead, the Middle Eastern bridgehead, it is also quite possible that new chains of alliances may emerge that have not emerged before.

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