Will Trump blackmail Ukraine and induce it to negotiate — TSN Exclusive

This is to maintain US military support after Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025. The New York Times writes about “the end of the era of military aid to Ukraine”, recalling that the Biden Administration's request to Congress in early December to allocate an additional $24 billion for Kyiv and to replenish the stockpile of weapons in American warehouses did not find support on Capitol Hill. At the time, House Speaker Mike Johnson responded that he did not plan to bring the proposal up for a vote, adding:

“It's not Joe Biden's job to make those decisions anymore. We have a new president-elect, and we plan to wait and adopt the new commander-in-chief's strategy on all of this.”

On Wednesday, December 18, the Senate passed a bill on the US defense budget of $895 billion without additional funding for Ukraine and Lend-Lease. This is not final…