Reuters: Trump Wants To Cut Off Aid To NATO Member States Bordering Russian Federation

The Pentagon has warned European partners that they need to reduce their dependence on the US.

U.S. President Donald Trump, after active efforts to resolve the war in Ukraine, is moving away from direct diplomacy, handing the initiative to allies and focusing on domestic issues. This is causing concern in Europe, as such a position of the White House head may fuel the Kremlin's aggression, Reuters writes (translation - "Unian").

The publication noted, citing a knowledgeable official, that in late August, Pentagon representatives met with a group of European diplomats and warned them: the United States plans to cut off certain security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - NATO member states bordering Russia.

In particular, Pentagon spokesman David Baker, according to Reuters, said that Europe needs to reduce its dependence on the United States, they say, the United States will shift its attention to other - domestic - priorities.

It is noted that the European diplomats feared that this fact could encourage more aggression by Russian dictator Putin, and it seems that they were right. The publication recalled that already on September 19, Russian MiG-31 fighter jets invaded Estonian airspace, and before that Russian drones attacked Poland.

In the meantime, the U.S. president's reaction to these incidents is rather restrained, and as Reuters noted, it fits into a new trend. And that trend is that while until a few months ago Trump was trying to resolve or at least mediate the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, in recent weeks he has largely stepped back from diplomacy, and instead has allowed and sometimes encouraged allies to take the lead, offering only distant promises of U.S. support.

According to Aaron David Miller, a veteran U.S. diplomat and senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment Aaron David Miller, Trump may have simply realized that these conflicts are far more complex than he imagined.

-"He's not interested in doing something if he doesn't see that the effort and political capital expended will yield a tangible return," Miller said.

With regard to negotiations to end the war in Ukraine, Reuters reports that the US president publicly announced his possible withdrawal from them back in the spring, but he has not withdrawn, and some US weapons have even begun to arrive in Ukraine under the PURL program.

Analytics, however, believe that the sluggish US response to Russia's latest provocations will only push Putin to even more aggressive actions.

- Further U.S. disengagement will lead to more provocative moves by Putin, as he will see Europe as weaker because of its disunity - especially without U.S. support," said Atlantic Council senior fellow Alex Plitsas.

A few European diplomats in Washington admitted to the publication that they are exhausted by how often Trump's stance on Russia changes, and noted that his recent statements of dissatisfaction with what Putin is doing are unconvincing.

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