There he goes, making peace again. Donald Trump cannot help himself. He just has to shut down another perfectly good opportunity for World War 3. What good is a Department of Defense if you cannot have a war, blow through a trillion dollars in defense contracts, give billions of dollars worth in missiles to our allies and leave billions of dollars in equipment to the enemy when you bug out?
Trump is saving millions of lives just to win a Nobel Peace Prize because Bombardier Barack got one.
Fresh off ending the Hamas War (or as I prefer, the FAFO War) and turning Iran’s nuclear ambitions into rubble, The Donald is turning his attention once again on the Ukraine War that he inherited from Biden.
Thursday, Trump announced meeting Putin in Hungary.
After his call with Putin, Trump spoke on the phone with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and discussed the planned summit.
“Preparations for the USA-Russia peace summit are underway. Hungary is the island of PEACE!” Orbán wrote on his X account.
Driving the news: Trump said on Truth Social that he believes “great progress was made” in his call with Putin.
He said there their top advisers would meet next week to discuss the situation in Ukraine, with the U.S. represented by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
“President Putin and I will then meet in an agreed upon location, Budapest, Hungary,” he said.
Trump also wrote that Putin congratulated him on the deal to end the war in Gaza.
The other side: Putin’s foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov told reporters that it was Trump who proposed holding the summit in Budapest, and stressed Putin agreed immediately.
Ushakov added that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov would speak to Rubio in the coming days to start working on the summit.
Putin raised the issue of possible supply of Tomahawks to Ukraine in his call with Trump on Thursday, Ushakov told reporters.
He stressed that Putin told Trump the Tomahawks would not change the situation on the battlefield, but would harm U.S.-Russian relations and the chance to move forward in the peace process.
What to watch: Trump said last week that he told Zelensky he might give Putin a new ultimatum: either Russia holds serious peace talks or Ukraine gets Tomahawks.
Being scalped by Tomahawks is not the only thing Putin fears. AP reported:
India says it is looking to step up purchases of crude oil and natural gas from the U.S. as it diversifies its energy supplies and confronts criticism by U.S. President Donald Trump over its imports of discounted Russian oil.
Trump said Wednesday that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had personally assured him his country would stop buying Russian oil, in a move that might add to pressure on Moscow to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
“There will be no oil. He’s not buying oil,” Trump said. The change won’t take immediately, he said, but “within a short period of time.”
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