The time for talk is over. President Donald Trump issued a major deadline to Russia on Monday. If Moscow does not “make a deal” with Kyiv within 50 days, countries that do business with Russia will face a whopping 100 percent tariff when their companies trade with the United States.
To end the war in Ukraine, “I felt that we had a deal about four times, and here we are, still talking about it,” Trump said from the Oval Office alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. “Every night people are dying.”
Trump’s hard deadline for Russia also includes a major agreement to supply Ukraine with new weapons from European stockpiles.
Under NATO’s auspices, allies like Germany will transfer sizable portions of their arsenal to Ukraine. In exchange, European governments will pay the United States to resupply their militaries with replacement hardware.
According to Trump, the plan covers “everything. It’s everything,