Nato Chief Praises Trump's Weapons Sales To Allies As 'significant' Move That Could Force Putin To Negotiate

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said nan White House’s determination to waste weapons to NATO countries for distribution to Ukraine was a "significant" infinitesimal for Europe amid stalled bid negotiations to extremity Russia’s war.

Rutte met pinch President Donald Trump Monday successful Washington, D.C., wherever nan commander-in-chief announced nan waste of billions of dollars worthy of weapons, including Patriot aerial defense rocket systems, and threatened 100% secondary tariffs connected countries that waste and acquisition pinch Russia if a woody isn’t made wrong 50 days.

"This is significant," Rutte said connected "Special Report." "So today, if you are successful Beijing, aliases successful Delhi, aliases you're successful Brazil and you cognize that this is coming to you, you mightiness want to telephone Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and say, ‘Hey, friend, we are still buying worldly from you, but you person sewage to get superior erstwhile it comes to these negotiations connected nan ceasefire aliases a bid deal, aliases different we get deed by nan secondary sanctions.’"

TRUMP'S BOLD PIVOT ON UKRAINE SENDS MAJOR SIGNAL 

U.S. President Donald Trump meets pinch NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (L) successful nan Oval Office astatine nan White House connected July 14, 2025 successful Washington, DC.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said China, India and Brazil buy lipid and petroleum products from Russia, helping prop up its warfare machine.

Trump has held disconnected connected imposing further sanctions connected Moscow, preferring to hold and spot if his negotiated efforts will carnivore fruit. He has grown disappointment pinch Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has refused to work together to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire projected by nan United States and its European friends earlier this year.

"If we don't person an statement successful 50 days, that's what we're doing, secondary tariffs, and they're biting. And I dream we don't get to nan constituent wherever we do, but I've been proceeding truthful overmuch talk. It's each talk. It's each talk, and past missiles spell into Kyiv and termination 60 people. It's sewage to stop," Trump said Monday from nan Oval Office.

A constabulary serviceman astatine nan tract of a Russian aerial onslaught which deed a residential building successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected Thursday, July 10, 2025. (Andrew Kravchenko/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Putin has escalated attacks connected Ukraine successful caller months, targeting Kyiv pinch large-scale missile and drone attacks. The Russian strongman has stuck to his maximalist demands during 2 rounds of bid talks successful Istanbul that person grounded to nutrient overmuch different than captive of warfare exchanges.

Rutte told Fox News main governmental anchor Bret Baier that nan weapons income nonstop a clear connection to Putin astir nan unity betwixt nan United States and Europe and really nan 2 will "do immoderate it takes for Ukraine."

"If I was successful nan Kremlin today, I would not beryllium excessively happy because this is simply a clear awesome that President Trump is serious. He wants peace. He hates nan truth that truthful galore group suffer their lives successful Ukraine," said nan erstwhile premier curate of nan Netherlands.

Smoke billows supra nan city's buildings pursuing wide Russian drone and rocket strikes successful nan occidental Ukrainian metropolis of Lviv connected July 12, 2025. (YURIY DYACHYSHYN/AFP via Getty Images)

SENATE MOVES TO REIGN IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S FLUCTUATING UKRAINE POLICY

Trump has group aggregate two-week deadlines for Russia to beforehand bid talks pinch Ukraine, but they’ve many times expired without important advancement aliases consequences.

Ukraine’s erstwhile Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called connected Trump past period to reshuffle 3 things to revitalize nan negotiating process: sticks, carrots and nan unit of time. 

Kuleba said Trump created nan unit of clip by stating he could extremity nan warfare successful 24 hours and calling connected some sides to beryllium down and negotiate.

"What happened adjacent is that each sticks went to Ukraine and each carrots went to Russia. It has ne'er worked for illustration this hundreds of years agone successful nan history of diplomacy. It doesn't activity for illustration this, and it's not going to activity for illustration this, OK, because nan correct measurement to do it is to create a unit of clip to debar endless deliberations and to find nan correct equilibrium of sticks and carrots for each side," he said.

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