Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Kyiv is aggressively seeking new diplomatic and military partners; sharing its hard-won expertise in drone warfare with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, & United Arab Emirates and forging arms-production agreements with Germany, various agreements with EU countries.

ICYMI 🇺🇦 Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump Zelensky has written off the United States. Trump, who revealed his affection for war criminal Putin again and again, largely halted 🇺🇸 American military aid to Kyiv. #Trump #Putin #Ukraine #Russia #Zelensky #US www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Volodymyr Zelensky is taking the next step, one that would have been unthinkable even as recently as 2024. By word and deed, he’s showing Europe and the world how the post-American free world can preserve its liberty and independence.

Even if Trump/ism and MAGA recede and the sociopolitical terrain swings to a saner, world-friendlier regime change, trust in America's system to maintain that situation as a bedrock default to grow on, not self-destroy, will have to be restored. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Zelensky argued that, if the U.S. is truly planning to withdraw from NATO, as Trump has threatened, European democracies need a whole new security architecture. To defend itself...the European Union would need the capabilities of the nonmembers Norway, the United Kingdom, Turkey, and Ukraine."

ICYMI 🇺🇦 Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump Zelensky has written off the United States. Trump, who revealed his affection for war criminal Putin again and again, largely halted 🇺🇸 American military aid to Kyiv. #Trump #Putin #Ukraine #Russia www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Here, this is also in @theAtlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Better late than never www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As weak they might.