In a brutally honest Truth Social post today, President Trump calls out the EU/NATO nations to stop buying Russian energy products if they want him to lead the imposition of stronger sanctions against Russia.
The “coalition of the willing” has been openly and privately applying public pressure upon President Trump to push stronger sanctions against Russia. However, at the same time the EU/NATO are making these demands, they are also purchasing Russian energy products as delivered through third parties.
So today, President Trump posts this:
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A non-diplomatic way of saying, ‘put up or shut up.’
Those of you who understand business terms can well understand “making the monkey jump.” President Trump is not taking their monkey.
This is a direct response to the public statements being made by EU/NATO leadership, who are -by design- trying to put the responsibility onto President Trump, and defer all their own culpability in the process.
This is similar to the approach President Trump took in 2018 when he very publicly called out German Chancellor Angela Merkel for continuing the Nordstream II Pipeline deal with Russia while simultaneously expecting President Trump to fortify NATO against Russia.
In this exchange, President Trump was in Brussels, Belgium for the start of the annual NATO summit.
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President Trump knows the EU/NATO will not do it.
The French govt has just collapsed. The EU voted no confidence in Ursula von der Leyen. The German economy is contracting. The U.K is facing a financial crisis. Moldova is facing a very sketchy election this month. The Canadian economy is contracting, etc etc.
The last thing the EU/NATO want to do going into the winter is make their energy prices skyrocket.
Trump well understands the leverage point right now.
Jut to sum things up with AI: This is better than anything else I have seen, and less one sided one way or the other
Has trump backed off from opposing Russia ?
“Yes, President Donald Trump has effectively backed off from imposing promised sanctions on Russia despite its continued aggression in Ukraine. He has repeatedly threatened to punish Russia with additional sanctions if Moscow did not agree to peace talks or a ceasefire, but as of September 13, 2025, he has not followed through. Instead, Trump has set new conditions that are unlikely to be met, stating he will only impose major sanctions when all NATO countries stop buying oil from Russia and impose sweeping tariffs on China. Analysts note this allows him to avoid taking action while maintaining the appearance of leverage.
Trump’s reluctance stems from a strategic desire to position himself as a peace broker and concerns that pushing Russia too hard could drive it further into China’s orbit, thereby strengthening Beijing’s access to energy, military technology, and the Arctic. His August 15, 2025, summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska yielded no formal agreements or discernible progress toward peace. Ukraine and its allies have expressed disappointment as Trump allowed self-imposed deadlines—such as an August 8 deadline for a ceasefire—to pass without consequences.
While Trump claims past actions, such as secondary sanctions on India (a major purchaser of Russian oil), have already cost Russia “hundreds of billions of dollars,” critics argue these measures have not significantly altered Russian behavior. Recent events, including Russia’s largest air assault of the war and drone incursions into Polish airspace, have heightened tensions, yet Trump has not enacted new penalties. Ukrainian officials and European allies are growing frustrated, believing Russia is exploiting Trump’s approach while continuing its military campaign.”
In summary of AI: Putin must be thinking President Trump is like a small dog that barks and growls a lot but has no teeth.
Greetings from India… I have tried to figure out the 7D chess that Trump has been playing…. I honestly don’t know what he is “trying to do”..
i thought he wanted to stop the Ukrainian war but he doesn’t want to settle it on Russia ‘s terms even though they clearly have the upper hand… He doesn’t want Russia to settle it on the battlefield either because he aligns with your Deep State in thinking that Russia should not become stronger geopolitically if it wins the war outright
If you want the winning team to stop in the middle of the game, the losing team should atleast concede that it is going to lose outright eventually .. neither will it concede nor does it want the game to continue… Since when did losers get to decide ??
Trump is either unable or unwilling to get the CIA to listen to him to stop all operational support from the US to the Ukes
If he had done so, the EU would have been forced to fold…instead Trump is now pleading with them to buy American energy instead of getting Russian energy indirectly from India
The only thing every one can see is that the EU has been economically hurting for the last 5 years and have no post COVID respite because of the Ukrainian war
How does Trump expect them to buy far more expensive energy from US suppliers when they get it for cheaper from Russia via India?
I really don’t see anything else other than this war dragging on killing more Ukrainians and Russians.. and that’s just fine for the Deep State
He doesn’t. He expects the EU to flounder ineffectually and demand that America solve all of their problems. He can’t say that, of course. They’re “allies”.
You make a good point.
I thought he just did.
The obvious clincher on that notion, is the actual state of the biggest trash-talkers like the UK.
Their military is a hollowed out mess, they can’t fight fight the Russians if they wanted to.
So obviously they’re trying sucker the US, into taking up 9/10th’s of any commitment.
My thoughts: 1) Many European countries want the USA to be the “bad guy” for them. 2) Countries, such as the Netherlands, U.K., Belgium, Spain, Germany, France and Italy are buying refined oil from India. India refines 40% of the oil shipped out of Russia. Though they “profess” to support Ukraine they are financially supporting Russia. 3) This is the BIG one: The monies frozen through existing sanctions on Russia are Russian assets that must be released when the war ends. Many European counties, sch as U.K., France and Germany appear to have spent the Russian assets and do not have the money available to “release” if the war ends.
Europe cannot afford the war to end so long as the USA is paying for the war.
BINGO,My thoughts all along!
its the EU NATI countries, they refuse to commit,not President Trump.
Perhaps your problem us you are looking for 3d chess, where there is none READ his sords LISTEN to what he says, and its clear .
However, ghe EU Leadership keep being disengenuis,two faced, etc.
I think its that they still hold out hope of getting to keep the siezed Russian assets, and maybe even have effectively already spent them, and so can’t return them?
In any case you are ascribing to Pres. Trump the two facedness of the EU Nations . Not too smart.
President Trump should not even be pretending that trying to back down Russia is something we should be doing. It isn’t. Many of us know he doesn’t mean it, but he should not be saying it.
One of his most important goals should be to wrest control of foreign policy back into the hands of elected presidents, for himself and for future presidents. That begins with being honest about the problem. The deep state’s control of foreign policy is running us off a cliff. Why are they still making an enemy of Russia when anyone can see that we need to be urgently befriending Russia to split them away from China? We need to do a 1972 Nixon in China in reverse. This is simple common sense, and yet the deep state foreign policy apparatus can’t or won’t see it.
We are not going to split Russia from China. It would be like trying to take a little nursing wolf from its mother.
Perhaps you are unaware of the long history of Sino-Soviet relations. After the USSR collapsed, the Russian Federation is not communist, so there is no reason for them to be allied with the PRC.
But stupidly, the Western globalist-controlled nations including the then-Demoncrap controlled USA imposed ridiculous sanctions against Russia because Russia intervened to stop the globalists from setting up bioweapons labs & NATO bases in Ukraine from which to eventually attack Russia.
The sanctions forced Russia to sell energy to China which works for China because moving oil through pipelines is easier than shipping oil from the middle east.
Solution is simple – force Ukraine to stop the war and sign a peace agreement with Russia; agree to not expand NATO into Ukraine or any other eastern EU country, then stop all sanctions against Russia.
Yep, there’s no way to flip Russia during war-time with an obnoxious regime like Ukraine’s on their border and the EU-NATO talking smack about going to war.
Exactly
I agree with your second paragraph.
i did not vote for more sanctions on russia, regardless of what the eurotards do.
Ditto.
Putin needed North Korean troops primarily due to severe manpower shortages in Russia’s military, stemming from high casualties in the war in Ukraine, estimated at around 970,000 troops killed, captured, wounded, or missing since 2022. To avoid a second large-scale mobilization of Russian citizens—which could provoke domestic unrest—Putin has pursued alternative personnel strategies, including offering large recruitment bonuses, enlisting prisoners, and raising the conscription age. The deployment of North Korean troops fits this strategy by providing additional manpower without increasing the burden on the Russian population.
Russia reportedly plans to deploy up to 30,000 North Korean troops to the front lines, offering Putin an expendable workforce to sustain operations in the war of attrition against Ukraine. These troops are seen as a way to maintain pressure on Ukraine and potentially exploit seasonal operational windows, such as the summer months, to launch advances. Additionally, bringing in foreign soldiers signals to both domestic and international audiences that Russia is not isolated and can draw on global support, thereby bolstering strategic legitimacy.
The move also aligns with broader geopolitical goals, as it strengthens the military partnership between Russia and North Korea, potentially leading to mutual defense benefits and technology transfers. However, the immediate driver remains the urgent need for personnel to compensate for unsustainable casualty rates and recruitment challenges.
Expendable? At 7000 lives lost a week that is 2 months if the loss is 50/50.
North Korean troops entered the war in October of 2024.
The unsustainable casualty rates are happening on the Ukrainian side.
Russia is gaining UK territory including mines, minerals, oil, and cities daily.
Ukraine wants the war to continue and expand. Ukraine has been losing territory for over a year. The only way Ukraine can stop that is to escalate.
The US needs to get its money and weaponry out now. If the EU wants to fight let them. But let them do it on their on dime and manpower.
I have never seen any credible source or open intel regarding North Korean troops in the UKR. Could you kindly provide the source for the numbers you have listed?
“Putin needed North Korean troops primarily due to severe manpower shortages in Russia’s military, stemming from high casualties in the war in Ukraine,”
You have absolutely no evidence to support this claim. Pure hopium. There is though, lots of evidence to show, that Ukraine has lost a lot of men.
If Russia had been losing close to the personnel and material that the Pootin haters believe, Ukraine would be winning handsomely, and Russia would be desperate to end the war… , but the Russians seem to really want to keep going, and see this through to it’s logical conclusion. A deballed Ukraine, with no value as a future proxy weapon to be used by bad actors, against Russia.
Very unlikely that Russian casualties have been that high. There’s been a lot of propaganda relating ro casualties.
Why should NATO even exist if the EU is making itself nearly indistinguishable from the USSR?
I love it when President Trump presents comprehensive, logical solutions. POTUS is truly gifted!
Brilliant. They refuse or can get their own houses in order, the willing. And wanted the US to backstop them giving Ukraine a quasi nato member status. Ie US boots on the ground. No, No, No. and us pay for it. No, No, No. keep up with the loser green energy et al. EU.
Trump keeps talking out of both sides of his mouth about this whole Ukraine-Russia war.
He wants peace, but then keeps sending arms to Kiev.
His Ukraine vs. Russia relative casualties totals are just fantasy.
He hasn’t formed a conclusion about Crimea, & he doesn’t respect the independence vote of the 1st four oblasts.
He seems to want more Russian sanctions, even though he doubts they’ll help.
If it’s ‘please Putin, hurry up & get this over’, then stop sending long distance missiles & aircraft.
I’ve read some nonsense, but oh boy!
Trump keeps sending weapons to Ukraine because if he stopped, Ukraine wouldn’t be able to defend itself AT ALL. Why then would Putin agree to a peace deal? He can run over ALL OF UKRAINE in months if Ukraine has no weapons. DO YOU GET THAT? That’s smart strategy, not talking out of both sides of ones mouth.
Crimea is long gone. Everyone, even Ukraine recognizes that. OBAMA GIFTED CRIMEA TO UKRAINE. Don’t you recall the “I’ll have more flexibility after the election” statement he made to Medvedev, who promised to “transmit” that to Putin (March 2012)? Putin annexed Crimea thereafter (February 2014). What stance should Trump now have?
Your TDS is showing in stupidity.
If everyone who is currently buying from Russia stopped they would not be able to afford the war and there would be no need to supply what you speak of. The two countries would have to resort to throwing rocks at each other.
The American taxpayer has zero responsibility towards the defense of Ukraine. None
We are lending money, to fund this war, happening on the other side of the planet.
The stupidity needs to stop.
Borrowing money to lend to Ukraine and obtain weapons for NATO.
Precisely
Clearly Crimea has been gone for years. I want Trump to acknowledge that.
The 4 oblasts WILL be Russian control (at least south of the Dneiper River). Trump should acknowledge that also.
That could help to end the day-to-day fighting.
Sending planes to Ukraine, so they can hit Moscow suburbs, Kazan, or Ulan Bator just angers Russians who might want no further part of this war.
Trump needs to draw a line, & then base all further Ukraine loans BASED on that defense.
Right now, Russia will decide this war, and it could extend to Odessa. Which would make NATO’s new Romanian naval base kind of bottled up & useless.
Hope this calls EU bluff. The wind of war is blowing stronger. More aircraft and patrols in Romania and Poland. Border closings. Ukraine attacks Russia energy infrastructure in many places.
France and UK building mobile hospitals. Russia is planning a large drone/missile strike.
President Trump get us out. EU wants war with our money and our troops.
EU is determined to start an all out war . I hope POTUS does not want this legacy.
Maybe get out of NATO and let the EU fight Russia if they desire.
PDJT was just as brutally hinest un calling out the networks and politicians who have advocated violence, on Fix and Friends.
The Truth, plain unvarnished **TRUTH** can be a fantastically powerful weopon, when wielded by one with the wisdom and strength to wield it..
Thats why/how it will “set you free”.
Charlie N
Knew it. PDJT knows it, as do so nany others, from andrew brietbart on.
Trump endured more than any man I can think of to arrive at where he is.
The 12 labors of Hercules weren’t more daunting than what he went through and what he wants to do.
Trump’s intentions are good, but he cannot know everything and he cannot do everything by himself.
The team he picks is the key. He is also stuck with holdovers who can undermine his purpose.
He couldn’t reform USAID so they dismantled it as much as possible.
I believe he wanted to get out of the business of regime change and military adventures overseas.
What makes all those adventures possible, in large part, is money and the all volunteer army.
It’s basically a mercenary army.
If it was like the drafted army during Vietnam, there would have been less overseas military adventures.
He was sabotaged during his first term by the foreign policy, warmonger profiteers cult.
Psychotics like Lindsey Graham who never go into any danger are part of that warmonger for profit club.
They don’t believe in God they don’t believe in Heaven or Hell, so they do anything and everything because there are no consequences on Earth, and they do not believe in any consequences after death.
They are without morals or compassion because they face oblivion.
I pray for Trump’s health and continued strength to complete the tasks he has set for himself and America.
I spend more time in the comments than the subject to find wisdom like this. Reality is so much different than what is perceived from the writers of news articles. Most of them are in the bubble anyhow in their late 20s early 30s sitting around to hear something that will never have any affect on most of us they live in an 8 mile radius rarely leave.
I agree with everything you said except that if the military was not mercenary there would be less wars. That implies that WW1, WW2, Vietnam and numerous other wars were “voluntary” endeavors on the part of the American people. My grandfather fought in WW1, my father in WW2 and my BIL in Vietnam. None of these wars were voted for by the American people. Vietnam was not even a declared war in congress but we still lost a generation of men to it, my generation. The protests by my generation made them end the draft. I will be forever grateful for that. Do not even whisper about reinstating the thing. I have three grandsons and I do not want them to be in any foreign war ever. Even if the soldier returns home intact, his psyche has been deeply harmed.
Johnson and GW Bush (Poppy) were in control of the CIA. Kennedy and Nixon and Reagan and Trump were not. Trump is not in control of it but he has made inroads on its gravy train and that is why they had to kill Charlie Kirk.
I believe the strongest defense is a strong offence capability. So, we must have a strong military. But all these CIA clandestine operations long ago ceased to be to the benefit of the American people. No, for decades, they have answered to the globalists, the corporations that steal and plunder to obtain resources at the lowest cost to make things to sell for as much as they can get on the global market.
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As long as the CIA..state dept midget dictator puppet Z is in place ..there will never be peace ..trump knows not one more dollar or bullet will force the Ukrainian people to dump Z ..and the new leader will do a peace deal immediately…..trump could t just tell Ukraine he is out …major political blowback…but now he can blame the euros….awesome strategy