Trump’s Ukraine Aid Cut: Pushing Peace Over Zelensky’s War Games

This pod­cast explores Trump’s deci­sion to halt Ukraine mil­i­tary aid, framed as an eco­nom­ic pack­age by Trea­sury Sec­re­tary Scott Bessent, amid calls from Trump for Zelensky’s removal due to his lack of a war-end­ing strat­e­gy. Rus­sia and Ukraine’s peo­ple seek a deal, but Zelensky’s push for long-range mis­siles into Russia—warned by Trump as risk­ing World War III—shows his reliance on U.S. and Euro­pean back­ing to pro­long con­flict, despite his bleak out­look. BKP cri­tiques NATO as a Cold War rel­ic (echo­ing Thomas Massie), notes Europe’s £2.26 bil­lion in loans to an insol­vent Ukraine, and high­lights how U.S./NATO proxy fund­ing and Europe’s Russ­ian oil pur­chas­es ben­e­fit Putin and arms deal­ers, not peace. Diplo­ma­cy is urged over esca­la­tion, as Amer­i­can frus­tra­tion with Zelen­sky ris­es.

• Rus­sia wants to make a deal. Cer­tain­ly the peo­ple of Ukraine want to make a deal. Trump halts mil­i­tary aid to Ukraine, it is an eco­nom­ic pack­age and not just a min­er­al deal as Scott Bessent the US Trea­sury Sec­re­tary has explained. Trump cuts off weapons to Ukraine. Trump can­not make a deal with Zelen­sky. A cou­ple of weeks ago Trump laid it out Zelen­sky had to go and now Lind­sey Gra­ham said that Zelen­sky has to go. Zelen­sky has no strat­e­gy to end the war. Remem­ber he pushed Biden for those long range mis­siles and would send Zelen­sky long range mis­siles that would go into Rus­sia. Trump tells Zelen­sky that he is play­ing World War III, the man (Putin) can push a but­ton and Zelen­sky doesn’t have a but­ton. 
• The worst state­ment by Zelen­sky, that he does not see an end to the war. He does not want there to be peace as long as he has America’s back­ing in Europe. Amer­i­ca will not put up with it for much longer. Europe can’t do the job with­out the US. Zelen­sky says the war is going to go on for a long time.
• Thomas Massie says NATO is a cold war rel­ic that needs to be reg­u­lat­ed to a talk­ing kiosk at the Smith­soian. We need to get out of NATO. 
• They had an emer­gency meet­ing in Brus­sels and the UK rein­forced Ukraine sup­port with 2.26 bil­lion in loans not grants rais­ing repay­ment con­cerns. Ukraine is upside down. There are not enough min­er­al dol­lars for every­body that has skin in the game to get any mon­ey back for the US. Europe spends more on Russ­ian oil and gas than on defend­ing Ukraine, fund­ing Rus­sia indi­rect­ly
• Rus­sia grinds for­ward with man­pow­er advan­tages; Ukraine strug­gles to recruit (vans search­ing for men).U.S. and NATO fuel the war with weapons and funds, using Ukrain­ian lives as proxies.Suggests diplo­ma­cy (e.g., J.D. Vance’s approach) over esca­la­tion; mocks Zelensky’s defiance.Billions in arms deals ben­e­fit Putin and the mil­i­tary-indus­tri­al com­plex, not Ukraine.
• Putin isn’t seek­ing peace with Ukraine alone; a broad­er Euro­pean-Russ­ian deal is needed.Zelensky’s actions pro­long con­flict for per­son­al gain (e.g., pay­ing his par­lia­ment with for­eign money).American dis­con­tent with Zelen­sky grows
• Fort Benning’s name restora­tion in Geor­gia.