The president has recaptured the spirit of Alaska. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky walked into the White House last Friday for a meeting with President Donald Trump.
He was feeling confident after two “very positive and productive” phone calls with Trump, calls which gave him hope that, for the first time, Ukraine might obtain cruise missiles with a range sufficient to strike deep inside Russia.
Trump had told reporters that he might tell President Vladimir Putin of Russia, “Look, if this war is not gonna get settled, I may send them Tomahawks.”
And yet, after the White House meeting Zelensky was feeling “very negative,” according to one European official who spoke to the Financial Times. Trump told the Ukrainians that he will not be providing them long-range Tomahawk missiles, at least for now, so Zelensky walked out empty handed, his hopes dashed.
Author summary: Trump denies Tomahawks to Ukraine.