As NATO chief arrives in Washington, Trump promises big shipments of weapons to Ukraine that Europe will pay for ‘100%’

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TRUMP: ‘WE’RE NOT PAYING ANYTHING … IT WILL BE BUSINESS FOR US’: Details are still to be worked out, but President Donald Trump has teased a major shift in U.S. policy prompted by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s continued rejection of every effort Trump has made to end the war in Ukraine with a negotiated settlement. 

“I am very disappointed with President Putin. I thought he was somebody that meant what he said — and he’ll talk so beautifully, then he’ll bomb people at night. We don’t like that,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews last night. “Putin really surprised a lot of people. He talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evening. That is a little bit of a problem there and I don’t like it.”

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