'We have to': Trump sending weapons to Ukraine after expressing disappointment with Putin

[Eugene]

Source: USA Today

'We have to': Trump sending weapons to Ukraine after expressing disappointment with Putin

Zac Anderson
Francesca Chambers
USA TODAY
July 7, 2025, 9:24 p.m. ET

President Donald Trump said he was unhappy with Russian President Vladimir Putin and would be sending Ukraine more defensive weapons, days after the Pentagon said it would halt some shipments as it conducted a review of U.S. military stockpiles.

"We're going to send some more weapons – we have to. They have to be able to defend themselves," Trump told reporters July 7 during a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. "They're getting hit very hard now. They're getting hit very hard. We're going to have to send more weapons – your defensive weapons, primarily."

The Trump administration has worked for months without success to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

Trump spoke with Putin last week and said afterward that the call did not result in any progress. Russia pummelled Kyiv with the largest drone attack of the war, killing one person, injuring at least 23 and damaging buildings across the capital hours after Trump spoke to Putin, officials said.

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[Bayard]

1. He doesn't want European leaders showing him up--didn't think they'd step up

We wants that Nobel so damn bad, and he apparently made a deal with Bibi to nominate him.

[Deuxcents]

2. He doesn't care about Ukraine..he's not happy with his friend, Putin so now he's got to help.

He has no policy or convictions about anything. If his ears gets tickled, he’s all for it. If not, he’ll withdraw so no country can depend on him because it’s all about him. Kiss up or kiss it goodbye

[CentralMass]

3. More than likely its the mineral deal in play

[dweller]

4. More than likely

He’s lying
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[usonian]

5. He's got more flip-flops than a computer circuit board.

So, was the big blackmail the Epstein list that he ate and pooped out? Did Putin lose his leverage.

Or did he just watch some Fox show that flipped him again?

Guy's as stable as nitroglycerin in a piñata. Hope he has a blast (in confined quarters)

Trump spoke with Putin last week and said afterward that the call did not result in any progress

Oh, Putin flipped him off as a stale TACO.

These squabbling old men should all enter a shipping container and argue with hand grenades.