So it’s official: Washington is pulling the plug on military aid to Ukraine. At Congressional hearings this week US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth confirmed the Trump administration has a “very different view” of the war in Ukraine to that of Joe Biden’s – and insisted that a “negotiated peaceful settlement is in the best interest of both parties and our nation’s interests.”
Sovereign means signing a mineral deal for nearly all of your natural resources in exchange for dwindling material support after you genocided too many russian-speakers and the neighboring country of the same ethnicity had to intervene.
Sovereign means having to kneel before the US president in turn at the white house and enduring being scolded in national television.