Ukraine
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...and has paused all military aid to Ukraine..the Toddler-in-Chief is having a tantrum...
President Donald Trump is seeking to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in peace talks with Russia by pausing military aid to Ukraine.
A White House official said Trump wants Zelenskyy committed to the ending of the war that began when Russia invaded the now war-torn country. The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the assistance, added that the U.S. was “pausing and reviewing” its aid to “ensure that it is contributing to a solution.”
Now we’ve stopped sharing intel with the Ukrainians.
The US has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine after Donald Trump’s suspension of military aid on Monday, in another serious blow to Kyiv in the war with Russia.
White House officials indicated that both bans could be lifted if peace talks make progress.
Ukrainian officials suggested the US would no longer provide information about targets inside Russia, hindering Ukraine’s ability to carry out effective long-range drone strikes.
This would also leave Ukraine in the dark over the movements of Russian strategic bomber aircraft and the launches of ballistic missiles.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/us-stops-sharing-intelligence-on-russia-with-ukraine
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Macron speech today.
He announced that France would host a new meeting of UK, German and other European leaders in the coming days to discuss these responsibilities, with or without the involvement of the U.S.
“I want to believe that the U.S. will stay with us, but we need to be ready if it’s not the case,” he said.
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Link to video
The draft-- Ukrainian style!
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On Wednesday, Politico reported that four senior members of Trump's team held "secret" talks with Zelensky's top election rivals—Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko—and discussed whether the country could hold wartime elections.
Both Poroshenko and Tymoshenko confirmed on Thursday that they have been in touch with Trump administration officials, but said they oppose elections taking place during the country's war with Russia.
Elections were suspended in Ukraine in February 2022 under martial law that was imposed in response to Russia's full-scale invasion, but Trump and Putin have pressured Ukraine in recent weeks by questioning Zelensky's legitimacy as a leader.
https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-trump-secret-talks-rivals-2040520
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The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the temporary legal status of 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. from Russia's invasion, potentially paving the way for their deportation, Reuters reported on March 6, citing four undisclosed sources.
The plan predates U.S. President Donald Trump's public spat with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Feb. 28 and is part of broader efforts to revoke the legal status of more than 1.8 million people staying in the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, the news agency noted.
The move, which is expected as soon as April, would nevertheless threaten to further widen the rift between Kyiv and Washington after the U.S. paused military assistance and intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
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Meanwhile Ukraine is actually taking back some territory around Pokrovsk.
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Crazy economist who likes to write about higher education.
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Meanwhile, in Germany.
Trump’s Embrace of Putin Has Germany Thinking of Nuclear Weapons
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Small arsenals, high costs, and production backlogs have been a hindrance as Europe arms Ukraine.
Denmark found a way to get Ukraine weapons that bypassed these issues.
It funds the weapons manufacturing in Ukraine so that they reach soldiers faster and for lower cost.
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Perfectly sensible, except for the risk that Russian cruise missiles blow up the production capacity.
On Germany, I would be acquiring nuclear weapons capacity really fast. They need to scrap the nuclear arms proliferation pact pronto and publicly announce that Germany will join the nuclear armed club and move to develop platforms to deliver them.
They also need to rebuild their military and put double the number of young people under arms as professional soldiers, i.e. 400K, not 180K.
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