President Donald Trump shocked the international community this week when he said that he was turning his position on the war in Ukraine and said he thinks Kie could seize all his occupied country by Russia.
In a Tuesday comment on social media, he said: “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is able to fight and to recover the whole of Ukraine in its original form.”
“With time, patience and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original boundaries of where this war started, is an option,” he added. “Why not?”
This function is a grim reversal from where he was when he first entered the office and, in a notorious Oval Office meeting with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy, told him he “[didn’t] I have the cards’ to take on Russia and repeatedly suggested that Kyiv should make significant concessions to end the war.
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The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zenskyy meets President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the UNGA in New York City on September 23, 2025. (Ukrainian presidency / handout / anadolu via getty images)
The answer to Trump’s change in attitude was confronted with mixed reactions from top safety experts, in which some consider it a positive shift, while others, like former Cia Moscow station chef Dan Hoffman, argued that only words will have little effect on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“During all these years I have spent trying to see the world through the distorted KGBs of Vladimir Putin … he doesn’t care,” said Hoffman. “He thinks he can use them against us.
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“He tries to show that the United States does not have the throw to display Russia to threaten NATO members in Eastern Europe,” argued the Russian security expert. “He wants to try to show Ukraine that the United States does not have the opportunity to project the power into that part of the world. To show Ukraine” You don’t want to trust the United States, stop fighting, we’re going to defeat you anyway, we’ll tap you ” – that is where his strategy is.”
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President Donald Trump greets Russian President Vladimir Putin on 15 August 2025, with Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/The Associated Press)
Russia pushed back on Wednesday to Trump’s comments and suggested that he “Since” in his assessment of how the war progresses.
“The dynamics on the front lines speaks for themselves,” said spokesperson for Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, according to Reuters reporters.
Since the beginning of 2024, Russia has made little or no major progress in the front line. Although a few small claims have been achieved this year, the front lines have been largely frozen in the last 18 months.
Hoffman argued that if the US wants to see Ukraine making progress, it has to lift all strike restrictions it has and immediately forces secondary sanctions, instead of waiting for Europe to follow the example at the same time, because they take months to take a toll on the Russian war box.
Washington should also consider highly armed NATO allies, including Germany, Ukraine with strike missiles about long-distance, and Denmark to close the Danish street for the Russian shadow fleet, and Trump allies, such as the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, to stop buying the buying of the buying of the buying of the buying of the buying of the buying of the buying of the buying of..
Although Hoffman claimed that there is more to do before Putin actually starts evaluating his war operations in Ukraine, the Lithuanian Minister of Dovilė Šakalienė said that the position of the president was “very encouraging”.
Sakaliene repeated Hoffman and said that Ukraine needs the right support to fully combat Russia, and without a doubt American and NATO support, Ukraine will not only be unable to make progress on the battlefield, Russia will continue to threaten NATO – raising the risk of a massive international war.
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“The only obstacle would be our fear – our inability to defend the rules of the world in which we live,” she said. “The recent series of incidents, both drone related in Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, and also related to the invasion of our air space by Russian fighter jets, demonstrates again and again that Russia colors outside the lines.
“It’s going on [and] It is going to escalate because they feel that they are not to fight because they feel that they are inviolable, and that means they also like to challenge NATO, “said Sakaline.
All three security experts agreed that the role of the US is “critical” when combating Putin and the argument that the US should take a rear seat to Europe weakens the united front that is needed to stop Russia.
“The current world protection architecture is built around the axis of the United States,” said Sakaliene, with the argument that the system should not be exploited, but supported by Europe’s strengthening of its own military capacities. “But that also means that the voice of the United States was still vital for certain decisions with regard to a safety of a democratic world.”
“And that the voice of the United States is the one who hears Russia the most,” she said.
Trump suggested Tuesday that Ukraine should not only reclaim the country seized by Russia, but “perhaps even beyond that.”
Sak pushed back on this and said that Ukraine views the situation through a “realistic” lens.
“We never had the ambition to conquer Russian territory. We don’t need it,” said Sak. “We just want them from our country.
“We understand that at this stage even this goal is not possible to achieve through military means,” he continued. “It will have to be a mixture of diplomatic agents, and it will probably take a long time.”
Ultimately, Ukraine did not consider Trump’s comments as a signal that the US will take immediate action, but rather as a “confirmation” that Trump is now entirely on board with a support of Ukraine and joins NATO alliance.
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“Standing shoulder with the European partners of Ukraine … This alone is a major threat to Russia,” Sak argued. “They know, and this sends them another message that this is an uninhibited war for them.
“Sooner or later, when we paralyze their economy in a combination of sanctions plus the Deep Strike drones that we perform every day, Russia will be in a position that, despite their willingness to wage this war and these aggression, will continue to cause crimes, it will not only be able to do this pure for economic reasons,” Sak added.
