NATO chief praises Trump's weapons sales to allies as 'significant' move that could force Putin to negotiate

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte declared the White House s decision to sell weapons to NATO countries for distribution to Ukraine was a critical moment for Europe amid stalled peace negotiations to end Russia s war Rutte met with President Donald Trump Monday in Washington D C where the commander-in-chief disclosed the sale of billions of dollars worth of weapons including Patriot air defense missile systems and threatened secondary tariffs on countries that exchange with Russia if a deal isn t made within days This is crucial Rutte revealed on Special Document So the present day if you are in Beijing or in Delhi or you're in Brazil and you know that this is coming to you you might want to call Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and say Hey friend we are still buying stuff from you but you have got to get serious when it comes to these negotiations on the ceasefire or a peace deal or otherwise we get hit by the secondary sanctions TRUMP'S BOLD PIVOT ON UKRAINE SENDS MAJOR SIGNAL Sen Lindsey Graham R-S C disclosed China India and Brazil buy oil and petroleum products from Russia helping prop up its war machine Trump has held off on imposing additional sanctions on Moscow preferring to wait and see if his diplomatic efforts will bear fruit He has grown frustrated with Russian President Vladimir Putin who has refused to agree to a -day unconditional ceasefire proposed by the United States and its European allies earlier this year If we don't have an agreement in days that's what we're doing secondary tariffs and they're biting And I hope we don't get to the point where we do but I've been hearing so much talk It's all talk It's all talk and then missiles go into Kyiv and kill people It's got to stop Trump revealed Monday from the Oval Office Putin has escalated attacks on Ukraine in new months targeting Kyiv with large-scale missile and drone attacks The Russian strongman has stuck to his maximalist demands during two rounds of peace talks in Istanbul that have failed to produce much other than prisoner of war exchanges Rutte explained Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier that the weapons sales send a clear message to Putin about the unity between the United States and Europe and how the two will do whatever it takes for Ukraine If I was in the Kremlin in current times I would not be too happy because this is a clear signal that President Trump is serious He wants peace He hates the fact that so multiple people lose their lives in Ukraine declared the former prime minister of the Netherlands SENATE MOVES TO REIGN IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S FLUCTUATING UKRAINE POLICYTrump has set multiple two-week deadlines for Russia to advance peace talks with Ukraine but they ve repeatedly expired without important progress or consequences Ukraine s former Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called on Trump last month to reshuffle three things to revitalize the negotiating process sticks carrots and the pressure of time Kuleba revealed Trump created the pressure of time by stating he could end the war in hours and calling on both sides to sit down and negotiate What happened next is that all sticks went to Ukraine and all carrots went to Russia It has never worked like this centuries ago in the history of diplomacy It doesn't work like this and it's not going to work like this OK because the right way to do it is to create a pressure of time to avoid endless deliberations and to find the right balance of sticks and carrots for each side he disclosed