While Trump goes easy on the Israeli prime minister, Trump this week suspended all US military aid to Ukraine, days after Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a dramatic on-camera confrontation in the White House
Trump and his aides say they are using the suspension of billions of dollars in military support, along with a pause in intelligence sharing, as leverage to persuade the Ukrainian leader to cooperate with US efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war
Trump’s sudden cutoff of weapons to Ukraine proves that the US president is capable of swiftly ending arms shipments to any American ally But Trump, like Biden before him, refuses to use that same kind of leverage to force Netanyahu to change his policies toward Gaza
Both Trump and Biden simply decided they don’t want to stop sending billions of dollars in weapons to Israel, depriving themselves of the most powerful influence they have over Netanyahu and his extremist government
