Method to Russia’s madness: Ukraine’s key infrastructure targeted | Midday Report

Thousands of Ukrainians are dying or facing more bombings, and EU says they won&#39;t help for the next month unless they follow the red tape for reforms. <br>Did England and the US refuse to do the D-Day rescue of EU unless Belgium and France filled out more forms for govt reforms?

10/2/2026 - THE PRICE OF CORRUPTION (ex. Eric Trump&#39;s wedding)- US CAPITULATION TO RUSSIA HAS HURT UKRAINE AND NATO -PUTIN&#39;S LONG-TERM GOAL OF SEPARATING THE US FROM NATO IS BEING REALIZED BY TRUMP&#39;S TARIFF WARS, THREATS TO GREENLAND AND CANADIAN SOVEREIGNTY, WAVERING US SUPPORT FOR NATO&#39;s ARTICLE 5, AND THE END OF AMERICAN DIRECT MILITARY AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO UKRAINE LEAVING OUR UKRAINIAN AND NATO ALLIES VULNERABLE TO RUSSIAN AND AXIS MILITARY AND HYBRID ATTACKS. &quot;Peace&quot; proposals generated by Kushner and Witkoff have only catered to Russian demands while they pursued business interests, and President Trump has no intention of actually implementing the Russian Sanctions Bill.
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<br> - PEACE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE US, RUSSIA AND UKRAINE:– Putin&#39;s goal in negotiations with the Trump administration is not to reach a peace agreement, but to weaken his Ukrainian opponent, to gain leverage with outlandish demands, to delay American and European support for Ukraine, and to spread Russian propaganda and misinformation justifying Russia&#39;s illegal invasion. For Russia, Foreign policy is only a tool to manipulate adversaries, to shape the battlefield, and to manage the global perception of the Ukraine/Russian war. To Putin&#39;s Russia, Western shared values, the rules-based order, and democratic elections are seen as weaknesses and vulnerabilities to be exploited. Putin only respects strength and strong resolve. For Putin&#39;s Russia, capitulation only encourages a further escalation of the war.
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<br>RUSSIA HAS HAD NO REASON TO AGREE TO ANY PEACE PLAN THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE UKRAINE&#39;S SURRENDER AS LONG AS THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO DENY MILITARY AND ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE! SINCE HIS ELECTION IN 2025, TRUMP DENIED MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE WHILE ENGAGING IN FRUITLESS NEGOTIATIONS. THE US AND THE COALITION OF THE WILLING MUST SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE INCLUDING LONG RANGE WEAPONS WHICH WOULD END RUSSIA&#39;S INDUSTRIAL ADVANTAGE. SANCTIONS ALONE, AND MEANINGLESS NEGOTIATIONS WITHOUT SUFFICIENT MILITARY AID ARE WORTHLESS!! SHOWING WEAKNESS AND CAPITULATING TO RUSSIAN DEMANDS WILL NOT BRING PEACE! PUTIN ONLY RESPECTS UNYIELDING POWER AND RESOLVE! WITKOFF IS WRONG IN OPPOSING A &quot;KINETIC&quot; SOLUTION. DIPLOMATIC CAPITULATION TO RUSSIA WILL NEVER LEAD TO PEACE!
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<br>The earlier pro-Russian 28 point &quot;peace&quot; proposal presented by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to Zelensky asked Ukraine, which is the victim of Russia&#39;s illegal invasion, to surrender the rest of strategically critical Donbas giving Russia a total of 20% of Ukraine, rewarded Russia by recognizing the conquered territory as part of Russia, ended sanctions on Russia, returned Russian assets that could be used to rebuild Ukraine, disarmed a third of Ukraine&#39;s army, while disallowing a peacekeeping force, or NATO membership. Trump&#39;s special envoy to Russia, Witkoff, had eight visits to Russia before visiting Ukraine, and he did not consult our European allies in preparing this proposal with Russia. This proposal ignored the long-term strategic interests of America and our European allies!!! If Ukraine is defeated, Russia can claim the status of a world power as it turns the second largest European country, the breadbasket for the world with 38 million tech savvy, battle tested Ukrainians into &quot;cannon fodder&quot; for AXIS imperialism. Sacrificing the security and survival of western democracies while hoping for questionable business deals is not putting America First. President Trump and Witkoff do not share the content of their conversations with Putin by using the NSC Secret Code Word System, and they even use Russian translators to keep these negotiations secret from national security advisors and congress.
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<br>- In the summer of 2019, to assist his re-election chances, President Trump with-held desperately needed aid to Ukraine as leverage to get an investigation going on Hunter Biden which resulted in Trump&#39;s impeachment. Trump has never forgiven Zelensky and Ukraine. Later, when Biden was President, Trump and his allies blocked aid for 6 to 8 months to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, using immigration as an excuse. In April 2024 Congress finally approved a $95 Billion dollar aid package to these American allies. The delayed aid resulted in the loss of Ukrainian lives, infrastructure and strategically important territory putting Ukraine on the &quot;back foot&quot; as it faced the full power of Putin&#39;s war machine.
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<br>.-Putin and Trump had a one and a half hour call on 2/12/2025. On 2/28/2025 we witnessed the staged Oval office blowup between Trump, Vance and Zelensky creating a media frenzy. THE OVAL OFFICE BLOWUP PROVIDED A DISTRACTION AND AN EXCUSE SO THAT TRUMP ON MARCH 3RD STRIPPED INTELLIGENCE SHARING WITH UKRAINE ON TARGETS WITHIN RUSSIA JUST AS THE RUSSIAN AND NORTH KOREAN MILITARIES PREPARED AN OFFENSIVE AGAINST UKRAINE&#39;S TROOPS IN KURSK. On March 8th, North Korean and Russian troops launched their successful offensive against the &quot;blinded&quot; Ukrainian forces. On March 11th, Trump allowed intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Russia regained most of the Kursk region stating that Ukraine had agreed to take steps toward peace. Ukraine lost an important bargaining chip in Kursk impacting future peace negotiations. What did Putin and President Trump discuss on their 2/12/2025 phone call????
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<br> - On March 2, 2025, the United States voted with Russia and its AXIS allies in the UN General Assembly against a resolution condemning Russia&#39;s illegal invasion of Ukraine.
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<br>-On June 1st Ukraine devastated Russian strategic bombers with the tactically brilliant &quot;SPIDER WEB&quot; operation. On June 4th Trump had another telephone call with Putin where Trump told Putin he did not know about the operation beforehand. Trump has made no public statement about &quot;Spider Web&quot;, but he did say that Putin threatened serious retaliation against Ukraine. -ON JUNE 5TH TRUMP STOPPED THE DELIVERY OF ANTI-DRONE TECHNOLOGY TO UKRAINE A DAY AFTER HIS CALL TO PUTIN. On June 5th, Trump stopped the delivery of 20,000 anti-drone missiles that had been promised to Ukraine and diverted them to US forces in the Middle East even though he knew Ukraine desperately needed the APKWS (Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System) with proximity fuses to protect its cities and citizens. Trump knew Russian drone and missile attacks were targeting and killing Ukrainian civilians and destroying infrastructure making Trump&#39;s action a punishment for Ukraine and a strategic benefit for the Russian military as it conducts its war of terror on the brave Ukrainian people.
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<br>-On June 3, 2025, Pete Hegseth was the first Defense Secretary to skip a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting at NATO HQ sending a signal that America cannot be counted on to support Ukraine against Russia&#39;s brutal invasion.
<br> - On June 16th, 2025, Trump left the G-7 meeting in Canada early on so he did not have to meet Zelensky or work with our allies on Russian sanctions and military aid to Ukraine while saying Russia should not have been excluded from G-7 after its invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
<br>-On August 15th 2025, Trump&#39;s Alaska Summit with Putin ( who was greeted on a red carpet) undercut the view that Russia is isolated economically and politically, producing no progress toward peace while Russia continued its war of terror on Ukrainians unhindered.
<br>-On March 3, 2026, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and the Trump administration created a financial windfall for Russia by waiving oil sanctions.
<br>Trump followed this concession with a call to Putin on 3/9/2026. The Sanctions waiver was extended for three months and finally expired on June 17th 2026.
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<br>Why should North Korea use Russian targeting systems to launch the North Korean Zircon ballistic missile against Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure, but Elon Musk and Star-Link will not allow Ukraine the targeting capability that would allow Ukraine to hit ballistic missile production facilities and the infrastructure in Russia that supports North Korean and Russian ballistic missile attacks? Why does an individual- Musk- make decisions about a critically important global navigation and targeting system when these decisions should be controlled by Space Force and the US military with input from Congress and the US intelligence services???WHEN MUSK AND TRUMP CAPITULATE TO RUSSIA BY RESTRICTING THE USE OF STAR-LINK BY UKRAINE, THEY ARE ONLY HELPING RUSSIA ACHIEVE ITS WAR GOALS, ENCOURAGING RUSSIA TO ESCALATE THE CONFLICT WITH BALLISTIC MISSILES, AND PROLONGING THE WAR WHILE CONTRIBUTING TO NEEDLESS UKRAINIAN DEATHS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF CIVILIAN INFRASTRUCTURE!!
<br>- President Trump should allow Ukraine and our NATO allies to obtain the Patriot Missile license so that Ukraine can stop Russia from killing Ukrainians with ballistic missiles and NATO will be able to protect its population and critical infrastructure from future Russian and AXIS missile attacks!!! The US and its allies must immediately ramp up development and production of anti-ballistic missile defense systems.
<br>-Finally, America should restore military, economic, and political support for the brave Ukrainian people.
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<br>UKRAINE IS THE FRONT LINE IN THE GLOBAL DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM AGAINST AXIS IMPERIALISM AND A TOTALITARIAN WORLD ORDER! Surrendering Ukraine to Russia or rewarding Russia for its illegal invasion would be a tragic loss for the entire future of humanity, and a Russian victory will only embolden further aggression by the AXIS, their allies, and proxies. The only path toward peace in Europe would be if Ukraine is integrated into both NATO and the EU with the full support of the United States of America! David A. Mangs Ph.D.