Trump's halt on Ukraine aid could backfire for Russia: Retired US general

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : " An anonymous White House official, in a statement to Reuters: "President Trump has been clear that he is focused on peace.
50% : Trump delivers stick to democratic Ukraine.
46% : " Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul, in a post to X, formerly Twitter: "Trump just cut off military aid to Ukraine that the U.S. Congress had already approved.
43% : An anonymous senior Defense Department official told Bloomberg that Trump would keep the freeze in place until he is convinced that Ukraine is making "a good-faith commitment to peace.
41% : On Monday evening, the Associated Press reported that Trump had at least temporarily paused all U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
35% : Trump gives nothing but carrots for autocratic, imperial Russia.
21% : Her focus is on reporting national politics, where she has covered the 2020 and 2022 elections, the impeachments of Donald Trump and multiple State of the Union addresses.
20% : U.S.-Ukraine relations have been shaky since President Donald Trump took office in late January and took a nosedive on Friday when Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky argued during a dramatic and heated press conference in the Oval Office.
20% : In response to a hypothetical Burnett question about what it would "look like" if Trump ended aid to Ukraine, Hodges admitted that it would "be bad for Ukrainians" and for Europe "for a period of time.

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