I think Trump is testing how far he can take things with the delivery pause and lifting of a few sanctions, he will carefully and slowly keep cutting things and Republicans will express anger for their voters but ultimately won't do anything. His ultimate goal is to end the war by forcing Ukraine's surrender because that is the easiest option to him, he is incapable of standing up against Putin.

The excuse that America is low on supplies is complete nonsense, the supplies are already in Poland and destined for Ukraine, and you're telling me that America needs things like artillery shells? What? Are they expecting an invasion from Canada? Spare me the bullshit, there is nothing America needs artillery shells for, even if America was in a war they wouldn't need artillery shells unless the war was with Canada or Mexico.

Honestly a bit tired of people blaming everything on Trump when it comes to the things being pushed. The blame is on the Republican Party and half the country who voted them in. This is what they wanted.

Trump is pulling back support from Ukraine. This is a decision supported by many Republicans and even some Democrats. Why? So that European countries bring up their Nato obligations.

Trump is tariffing the world. This is a decision supported by many Republicans and Democrats. When Trump first tariffed countries in his first term, Biden and the Democrats never pulled those tariffs back. They want to continue to do these tariffs for some perceived benefit.

Trump is supporting Israel and bombing Iran. Democrats would do the same.

It is a systemic issue. America needs to be cut off.

What was the reason for signing a raw material deal with USA?

Desperation on Ukraine's part to try to get support from America because they really had no choice when Europe won't step up. It has backfired clearly, it might hurt Zelenskyy politically, a lot of Ukrainian polls show a lot of hatred towards Trump now. If Zelenskyy lets America pillage their country then Zaluzhynyi will likely win the next election.

The only thing I did read is that the minerals deal wasn't actually that much anyway and would take years to even start let alone see any results from it, so maybe Zelenskyy still played Trump because any consequences of the deal won't even be felt until the next US President if that is true, who may just decide to rip up the deal and offer something more favourable.

Trump will call Zelensky tomorrow.

But today — as I write this — he is speaking to Vladimir Putin.

www.ft.com/content/edac...

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— Christopher Miller (@christopherjm.ft.com) 3 July 2025 at 15:29

Getting his orders from Putin first.

Dude cut off aid to Ukraine and is talking to Russia first before he even explains to Ukraine why.

🇺🇸 Trump on his call with Putin:

We also talked about the war with Ukraine, and I'm not happy about that ... I didn't make any progress with him today at all.

We are giving weapons to Ukraine. We are working with them to try to help them. We have to make sure we have enough for ourselves.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 3 July 2025 at 22:22

Russia’s air attack is ongoing. It’s been hours of air defense fire, explosions and the whirring of Russian drones in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Trump said he “didn't make any progress with [Putin] today at all” — and that is apparent as much as ever now.

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— Christopher Miller (@christopherjm.ft.com) 4 July 2025 at 00:03

When Trump shows weakness, Russia escalates.

Ukraine launched anonther special operation. They stuck some bomber drones on a sea drone and floated them out to crimea. Then they launched and destroyed a Nebo-M radar system along with the command post. The whole thing's price was around 100 million dollars. They won't have any radar or anti-aircraft left after this war.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/ukraines-uncrewed-surface-vessels-are-now-launching-bomber-drones-to-attack-crimea

Bomb Stockpile Destroyed, Warplanes Damaged as Ukraine Strikes Russian Airfield
The Borisoglebsk airfield is a key base for Russian fighter jets and bombers, including Su-34, Su-35S, and Su-30SM warplanes, according to a statement from Ukraine’s General Staff.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/55745

👀❌ In Russia, data on the number of the population was made private, - The Moscow Times.

❗️In the report by Rosstat for May, there was no information about the natural increase of the population, number of births and deaths, marriages and divorces, migration and even about the size of population.

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— The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) 5 July 2025 at 13:45

Im sure that the population will dip a bit bc of casualties and the wise portion moving. The real story though, may be the unhappiness of the people that have to deal with a bad economy and are being fed lies by putin.  It's gotta be making putin nervous at this point, bc even Russians have a breaking point and that point will be lower when it isn't a question of survival such as when the Germans were in stalingrad.