Trump did not foresee this. Putin is cheerful and humiliated the USA
Although at least a significant part of the drones, the missiles that got through the defense, caused huge destruction. The capital of the largest European state was burning.
“What Kyiv has undergone last night can only be described as intentional act of terror” – wrote on the 10th Ukrainian Minister of Economy and Deputy Prime Minister Julia Swyrydenko.” The attack began immediately after a telephone conversation between Washington and Moscow. It was one of the heaviest attacks in the whole war, a bright show of how Moscow interprets diplomacy, and above all as a message. “
Trump expressed earlier Dissatisfaction with a telephone conversation with Putin. “I am very disappointed with the conversation, which I had with President Putin today,” said the American president. “I don't think he wanted to end the war, and it's a shame.”
However, it seems that the US president does not see his own co -responsibility for escalating the conflict with Russia. “The current Trump administration policy does not work,” says George Barros, an expert for Russia from the Institute of War Studies. Putin only feels reinforced. It will not stop if we do not stop him.
A CDU expert is of a similar opinion [niemiecka partia polityczna Unia Chrześcijańsko-Demokratyczna] for foreign policy Norbert Rottgen. “Putin reacts with new violencebecause he does not want peace, “he wrote on X.” There is only one answer to this: Europe must develop its own strength. “
Putin feels ridiculed
In fact, the numbers speak for themselves and show how Trump's gentle policy failed: since the beginning of his second term of office, the Kremlin significantly intensified the raids to Ukrainian cities. According to Dutch and German intelligence services, Russia uses chemical weapons on the front more often and routinely.
“Russia is increasingly using a wide range of chemical weapons” – we read in a joint statement of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), the Dutch intelligence service of MIVD and the AIVD intelligence service. A “stronger chemical” was added to the arsenal – chloropicrine, a substance paralyzing the respiratory system, which can lead to suffocation and was already used during World War I. And Western power, the United States, does nothing to stop Russia or present the Kremlin invoice for the escalation of war.
Quite the opposite. Last weekend, Russia conducted The biggest wave of attacks so fardirected mainly against Kiev, and soon after the US Department of Defense announced the suspension of defense rocket supplies, which Ukraine urgently needs to protect its cities.
– Could there be something stupid than the USA unilateral suspension of weapons supply for Ukraine, and a day later Trump's request to Putin for permission to suspend a weapon? – comments military expert Phillips O'Brien from the University of ST Andrews in Scotland.
The suspension of deliveries apparently only encouraged Putin to give the order to start the largest offensive so far on Kiev after a Thursday telephone conversation with Trump. According to the motto: the US president will not react anyway. In the Kremlin, it seems that the regime is so sure of Trump's support that Putin does not even hesitate to humiliate the American leader in front of the eyes of the whole world, conducting a powerful offensive right after the conversation.
The opposite effect of Trump's policy
Putin signals that despite massive violations of international law Russia is untouchable. He also wants to show Ukrainians how much they have been abandoned by their most important ally.
Kyiv after a Russian attack, 4 July 2025.
From the very beginning, Russian terrorist attacks for civil purposes in Ukraine, which did not make much sense of military, aimed to break the political will of leaders in Kiev and the spirit of the resistance of the Ukrainian population. In this logic, the last attacks also make sense, because Putin is trying to break the morale of Ukrainians in this way – when they feel betrayed by Americaand Europeans still do too little to fill the resulting gap. Russia also demonstrates what will happen when Ukraine ends with American defensive rockets. The damage that arose last night is just a fraction of what the future waves of Russian attacks can cause.
The policy of Trump's concessions towards Russia does not work at all, and even brings the opposite effect. The US President began his term under the slogan “Room through strength”. However, he demonstrated above all to Russia with weakness, causing the escalation of war. Trump's policy has completely disappointed. Or maybe, as the O'Brien strategy expert asks, “is exactly what we see – Helping Putin in killing Ukrainians and helping Russia to win the war? “.
There are many indications that Trump wants to get rid of this burdensome war in his opinion. No matter how. In his eyes, it may seem logical to discourage Ukrainians to such an extent that they will be forced to agree to Russia's peace dictate.
Because such a peaceful dictate would only fuel an aggressive one Russia's imperialismit is not in the interest of Europe. However, the US president does not have much understanding for her interests. Trump prefers to negotiate the matters of the Old Continent directly with Putin – bypassing Europeans and Ukrainians.
