{"id":312837,"date":"2025-07-29T06:58:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T06:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=312837"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:31:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T07:31:54","slug":"trump-doubles-down-on-threats-against-russia-shortening-deadline-for-putin-to-make-peace-with-ukraine-or-face-more-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=312837","title":{"rendered":"Trump doubles down on threats against Russia, shortening deadline for Putin to &#8216;make peace&#8217; with Ukraine or face more sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leo Hohmann \u2013 Leo\u2019s Newsletter July 28, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>President Donald Trump on Monday drastically cut the 50-day deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire deal with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>During his meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Scotland, Trump said the original 50 days, now down to about 40 days, would be slashed to &#8220;10 to 12 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PoKfW7bqGKc?si=PMy0EHqWh-mIZER8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>Let it be said for the record: Trump\u2019s policy on Ukraine now mirrors that of Joe Biden, threatening Russia while funding its enemy. Yes, people are dying on both sides, as Trump said in the above clip. But it\u2019s not our place to get in the middle and make threats of \u201csecondary tariffs.\u201d If we let things play out naturally, the chances of a lasting peace will be greater than if one is imposed upon them from the outside. That\u2019s what happened at the end of World War I, and it led to World War II. Trump says the deaths are \u201cfor no reason whatsover.\u201d This shows he knows absolutely nothing about the history of these two bitter rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded Monday by saying the situaiton in Ukraine reflects the West\u2019s broader aim of delivering a \u201cstrategic defeat to Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why is President Trump sticking his neck on the line for Ukraine anyway? We have to ask ourselves that. And why are reporters not asking Trump how a policy of slapping countries doing business with Russia with 100 percent U.S. tariffs will affect American consumers who depend on imports from countries like China and India? Americans will quickly find out how such sanctions hit them in the pocketbook, with inflated prices and shortages of basic goods resulting from Trump\u2019s misguided and reckless policy. This policy will hurt Americans more than Russians.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the question of national sovereignty. What if Putin had given an arbitrary deadline for the U.S. to stop any of its numerous wars over the last 25 years and threatened an economic blockade if the U.S. didn\u2019t obey his command? How would that have been seen by the U.S. government? I think it goes without saying.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is the presient of a sovereign nation. It\u2019s called Russia. As such, at least the last time I checked, the Russian government was tasked with protecting the national-security interests of the Russian people, a responsibility that ranks ahead of any desires to make Trump happy in support of a corrupt American ally in Kiev.<\/p>\n<p>It seems so obvious and yet it apparently has never dawned on the arrogant members of the Washington War Party (<em>aka Uniparty made up of Republicrats and Demoplicans<\/em>), but Putin is under no obligation to take orders from Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Lindsey Graham, or anyone else in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>This war will end when one side militarily defeats the other side. That would have already happened had the U.S. and Europe minded their own business.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Mr. President, but funding and supplying one side in this war and then pretending to want it to end is not a good look. That will only guarantee an artificial peace that will lead to an even bigger war down the road \u2014 World War III.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had better wake up and realize who he is dealing with. Russia isn\u2019t Iraq. It isn\u2019t Iran. It isn\u2019t Libya. It isn\u2019t Syria. It isn\u2019t Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is a nuclear-armed superpower with hypersonic missiles that can strike deep inside Europe within minutes. Russia has demonstrated in its war with Ukraine that it can hit targets with pinpoint accuracy with the super-fast, super maneuverable hypersonics.<\/p>\n<p>Dictating to Russia how it must deal with what it sees as a Western-armed, hostile foreign power operating on its border will not be tolerated in Moscow, and it could blow up in Trump\u2019s face if he isn\u2019t careful. Both his rhetoric and his actions are looking more and more like those of his predecessor, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and Putin will not be bullied into standing down before they finish the job of demilitarizing Ukraine and rendering it less of a threat to Russia\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Ukraine, which Trump rightly pointed out \u201cholds no cards,\u201d in this war, Russia has plenty of cards.<\/p>\n<p>It not only has serious military power, both conventional and unconventional, but it has a rapidly growing list of friends internationally willing to back it up economically, including China, India and other BRICS nations.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure what Trump is thinking by continuing to try to back Putin into a corner, threatening him on behalf of the corrupt regime in Kiev. I say let the two countries battle it out and let the chips fall where they may. The U.S. has no dog in this fight, other than an imaginary one created by Victoria Nuland, the Obamas and Bidens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/leohohmann.substack.com\/subscribe\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Subscribe<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leohohmann.substack.com\/p\/trump-doubles-down-on-threats-against\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When &#8216;peace&#8217; is imposed on nations from outside parties it rarely lasts. World would be better off if Russia-Ukraine resolved their own disputes. Without US intervention this war would already be over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39267,"featured_media":312839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312838,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312837\/revisions\/312838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/312839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}