Planet Faculty

In a move that has sent shockwaves through the corridors of Brussels and European capitals, President Donald Trump has unveiled a high-stakes, two-pronged ultimatum designed, he insists, to, "end the war in Ukraine quickly". Eschewing traditional diplomacy for his signature brand of transactional leverage, the President took to Truth Social to lay down a gauntlet for America's NATO allies, making any further major U.S. action conditional on their total economic commitment. The core of Trump's plan is a stark proposition: the United States will unleash, "major sanctions on Russia", only when every single NATO member agrees to a complete and immediate stop to purchasing Russian oil. “I am ready to do major Sanctions on Russia when all NATO Nations have agreed, and started, to do the same thing, and when all NATO Nations stop buying oil from Russia”, the President wrote, directly calling out allies he perceives as underwriting Vladimir Putin’s war effort wi...