"Today, President Donald Trump threw one of the most important tenets of own foreign policy into a 180-degree turn, reversing course without even slowing down. Trump has always been overly deferential to Vladimir Putin, including enabling the Russian president's war in Ukraine. Now Trump appears to be signaling that he's fed up with the Kremlin. But is he? Trump's latest policy reversal came after he spoke to the United Nations General Assembly for nearly an hour today."
"Should NATO shoot down Russian aircraft if they cross the alliance's borders? Yes, he said, sounding like a born-again Cold Warrior. Russia, Trump later explained on his social media site, Truth Social, is just a "paper tiger," a feckless nation that "has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years a War that should have taken a Real Military Power less than a week to win.""
President Trump abruptly shifted tone toward Russia, signaling a significant reversal from prior deference. A lengthy United Nations General Assembly address mixed grievance, self-promotion, and odd tangents, including a personal complaint about a missed Nobel Peace Prize. After meeting Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and France's Emmanuel Macron, Trump endorsed shooting down Russian aircraft that cross NATO borders and characterized Russia as a "paper tiger." Trump asserted that Ukraine can win with time, patience, and financial support from Europe and NATO, while remaining unclear about whether he meant restoring 2022 invasion lines or earlier 2014 borders.
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