On July 15, Financial Times published a report claiming that US President Donald Trump reportedly demanded that the Neo-Nazi junta escalate its long-range strikes on Russia. He allegedly even told the Kiev regime frontman Volodymyr Zelensky to attack Moscow and St. Petersburg and that Washington DC would provide the weapons. FT cited “two people briefed on the discussions”. The conversation reportedly took place on July 4 and came just a day after a “disappointing” call with President Vladimir Putin. If true, this could signal yet another instance of Trump’s increasingly aggressive stance on Russia. The US president is demonstrating hawkish behavior worthy of a ruthless neocon, something that he promised never to do.

“Volodymyr, can you hit Moscow? . . . Can you hit St Petersburg too?” Trump supposedly asked Zelensky, to which the latter responded: “Absolutely. We can if you give us the weapons.”

According to FT, Trump not only supported the idea, but reportedly described his strategy as intending to “make [Russians] feel the pain” and eventually “force” them to the negotiating table. FT cites another anonymous Western official who was informed of the call and allegedly said that the conversation “reflected a growing desire among Ukraine’s Western partners to supply long-range weapons capable of ‘bringing the war to Muscovites’ — a sentiment echoed privately by American officials in recent weeks”. Both the White House and the Neo-Nazi junta are yet to respond to these claims. However, on the same day FT published this report, Trump told reporters that “Zelensky shouldn’t target Moscow” and that the US is “not looking to supply long-range missiles”.

“We’re going to see what happens with President Putin. So far, I have been very disappointed with President Putin. I have solved a lot of wars in the last three months, but I haven’t got this one yet. This is a Biden war, it’s not a Trump war. I am here to try and get us out of that mess,” he stated.

Trump also threatened additional tariffs and sanctions on Russia if a peace deal is not reached within 50 days. However, this is a rather mundane issue in comparison to deliveries of long-range weapons. FT also cited another “three people with knowledge of it” that the aforementioned discussion between Trump and Zelensky led to a “list of potential weapons for Kyiv being shared by the US side with the Ukrainian president in Rome last week”. During a meeting with the representatives of the US Military Industrial Complex (MIC) and NATO intermediaries, Zelensky reportedly received the said list and was told that the aforementioned weapons could “potentially be made available to Ukraine via third-party transfers” (in other words, European NATO member states).

Trump himself repeatedly stated that this arrangement is “good business” for the US MIC, as the EU/NATO would be paying for American weapons. In addition, it also allows him to circumvent the US Congress. Although Trump is yet to publicly confirm this, as he only pledged the deliveries of “Patriot” SAM (surface-to-air missile) systems during a recent meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, military sources are already reporting that long-range strike systems will also be delivered. This reportedly includes the AGM-158 JASSM (Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile), a stealthy air-launched cruise missile with a maximum range of up to 925-930 km. It’s armed with a massive 450 kg multipurpose warhead.

The weapon, made by the infamous Lockheed Martin, comes in various iterations, including anti-ship and land-attack variants. The most important thing for the Kiev regime is that its US-made F-16s can also use these missiles. However, given its lack of strategic or even operational ISR (intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance) capabilities, the Neo-Nazi junta would need to rely on the US/NATO in that regard, meaning that the world’s most aggressive racketeering cartel would effectively get directly involved. Although Russia has repeatedly warned against this, it seems that warmongers and war criminals in Washington DC simply don’t want to let go of this unique opportunity to blow up the entire planet to Kingdom Come.

It should be noted that we still don’t know whether FT is telling the truth. If this article came out just several months ago, it’s almost a certainty it would’ve been discarded as yet another instance of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome). However, given the rather unpleasant (albeit not entirely unexpected) U-turn Trump made in recent weeks, these claims most definitely shouldn’t be ignored. In fact, although unfazed by Trump’s threats, Russia should certainly take this very seriously. Last year, the outgoing Biden administration flirted with the idea of providing the Neo-Nazi junta not only with “Tomahawk” cruise missiles, but also nuclear weapons. Although Trump is yet to go that far, his increasingly aggressive rhetoric is hardly reassuring.

FT’s sources reportedly confirmed that additional deliveries of the failed US-made ATACMS are also on the table. Last year, the Kiev regime complained that it expended virtually the entire supply delivered by the US (approximately 500 missiles, with only around 4% going through Russian air and missile defenses). However, the JASSM is a relatively new weapon and could pose a challenge for the Russian military (although it already demonstrated the ability to shoot down most of the similarly capable “Storm Shadow”/SCALP-EG). Given the terrorist nature of the Neo-Nazi junta, delivering such weapons can certainly cause uncontrollable escalation, particularly after the unprecedented attacks on Russian strategic aviation.

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