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Trump says Ukraine war may need to play out before peace is possible

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While hosting Germany’s chancellor Thursday, President Trump likened the war between Russia and Ukraine to two angry kids fighting in a park, suggesting both sides might need to “keep fighting and suffering” before peace is possible.

Key Details:

  • Trump told reporters he recently used a playground fight analogy to describe the Russia-Ukraine war, saying, “Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.”

  • He said Putin told him that Ukraine’s latest sabotage operations—including drone strikes deep in Russia and another bombing of the Kerch Strait bridge—would prompt more Russian attacks.

  • Trump said he warned Putin not to escalate further: “Don’t do it. You shouldn’t do it. You should stop it,” but admitted, “There’s a lot of hatred.”

Diving Deeper:

During a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, President Trump drew a provocative comparison between the war in Ukraine and a playground scuffle, suggesting the conflict may need more time before a resolution is possible. Trump said both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are locked in a bitter struggle that, in his view, mirrors “two young children fighting like crazy” who “don’t want to be pulled apart.”

The president told reporters he had used that same analogy in a private conversation with Putin just a day earlier. “Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart,” Trump said, adding that he told the Russian leader, “Maybe you have to keep fighting and suffering a lot—because both sides are suffering—before you pull them apart.”

According to Trump, Putin responded by indicating that more Russian strikes were imminent in response to recent Ukrainian covert actions. Trump said Putin justified his plans by referencing Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russian bombers and another strike on the strategic bridge linking Crimea to mainland Russia. “He actually told me and made it very clear,” Trump recalled, quoting Putin as saying: “We have no choice but to attack based on that, and it’s probably not going to be pretty.”

Trump, for his part, said he urged Putin to stand down. “I don’t like it. I said, ‘Don’t do it. You shouldn’t do it. You should stop it.’ But again, there’s a lot of hatred,” he said.

While still framing himself as the one figure capable of brokering peace, he’s shown increasing frustration with both sides. In February, Trump reportedly described Zelensky as a “dictator without elections,” underscoring skepticism about continued U.S. support. But he’s also criticized Putin directly, accusing him last month of going “absolutely CRAZY” for bombing Ukrainian civilian areas.

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AI Drone ‘Swarms’ Unleashed On Ukraine Battlefields, Marking New Era Of Warfare

Published on September 2, 2025

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Wallace White

Artificial intelligence-powered drones are making their first appearances on the battlefield in the Russia-Ukraine war as warfare creeps closer to full automation.

In bombardments on Russian targets in the past year, Ukrainian drones acting in concert were able to independently determine where to strike without human input.

It’s the first battlefield use of AI “swarm” technology in a real-world environment, a senior Ukrainian official and Swarmer, the company who makes the software, told the Wall Street Journal in a Tuesday report. While drones have increasingly defined modern battlefields, swarms until now had been confined to testing rather than combat.

“You set the target and the drones do the rest,” Swarmer Chief Executive Serhii Kupriienko told the WSJ. “They work together, they adapt.”

So far, the Swarmer technology has been used hundreds of times to target Russia assets, but was first used a year ago to lay mines on the front, the Ukrainian official told the WSJ. The software has been tested with up to 25 drones at once, but is usually utilized with only three.

Kupriienko told the WSJ that he was preparing to test up to 100 drones at once with the linking software.

A common arrangement used on the battlefield includes one reconnaissance drone to scout out the target and two explosive drones delivering the payload on target, the official told the WSJ.

While Western nations such as the U.S., France and the United Kingdom are also pursuing drone swarm technology, they have not deployed swarm technology on the battlefield the way Ukraine has, according to the WSJ. Currently, autonomous weapons are not regulated by any international authority or binding agreement, but ethical concerns around the technology has led many to call for increased regulation of weapons like the Swarmer system.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Trump Pentagon Reportedly Blocking Ukraine From Firing Western Missiles Deep Into Russia

Published on August 25, 2025

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Harold Hutchison

The Department of Defense has spent months blocking the Ukrainian military from using American and British-made missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing unnamed U.S. officials.

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eldridge Colby reportedly designed the procedure to review requests to carry out the long-range strikes with weapons that are either of U.S. origin or that require American intelligence or use components provided by the U.S., according to the WSJ. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly has the final say on whether Ukrainian forces can use the MGM-140 ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) to hit targets in Russia.

The reported blocks on missile strikes coincides with a Trump administration effort to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. A Pentagon spokesperson declined to comment further on the matter.

The Biden administration allowed Ukraine to carry out strikes with ATACMS in November, weeks after President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the New York Times reported. Trump criticized the move during a December interview with Time magazine.

“It’s crazy what’s taking place. It’s crazy,” Trump said. “I disagree very vehemently with sending missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that? We’re just escalating this war and making it worse. That should not have been allowed to be done.”

Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on Aug. 15 for a summit meeting during which Trump sought to secure a cease-fire in Russia’s war with Ukraine. As Trump greeted Putin, a B-2A Spirit stealth bomber and several fighters carried out a flyover of Elmendorf Air Force Base.

Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and major European leaders on Aug. 18 to update them on the summit.

In July, Trump reached an agreement with NATO where members of the alliance would purchase weapons, including MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missiles, and donate them to Ukraine.

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