American military assistance to Ukraine could be coming to an end

March 3, 2025 – WASHINGTON, D.C. – There are reports circulating that the U.S. may be cutting off military aid to Ukraine. U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama) recently spoke to members of the Alabama press corps about the Ukraine war with Russia. Tuberville said that President Donald J. Trump "wants to get this (the war) over with."

"Over the last three years. unfortunately, we have spent way too much money and got way too many killed people on both sides," said Senator Tuberville.

The Pentagon estimates that 600,000 Russians have been killed or wounded in the war with last month being the most costly as the Russians are pushing Ukraine all along the front lines in hopes of seizing more territory in anticipation of a peace deal. Some estimates have that number as high as 800,000. Ukraine is as tight lipped about their casualties as the Russians. Zelensky claimed last month that 31,000 Ukrainians have died; but a source in his government last year said that the number was really 80,000 killed and an estimated 400,000 wounded – if accurate those numbers are now dated and have gone up since that was leaked.

Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago. The Russian invasion was in violation of treaty and international law. While Russia has many apologists in this country and beyond the central issue in this war is that Russian President Vladimir Putin covets territory, a large ethnic Russian population in eastern Ukraine, the mineral and agricultural wealth of Ukraine, and seaports that are open year round on the Black Sea. He also wants assurances that Ukraine will never be part of NATO or the European Union.

Sentor Tuberville claimed that the war could have been prevented if the U.S. had agreed to some of Putin's demands prior to the invasion. Tuberville acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a dictator; but blamed former President Joseph R. Biden (D) for allowing the war to begin in the first place.

"Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He has done some crazy and terrible things over his lifetime; but he runs the country of Russia, and he does not want NATO on his boundaries," said Tuberville. "That is what this whole thing was about. This whole thing could have been stopped on day one under President Biden; but he was a warfighter. He believed in fighting wars and pushing NATO towards Russia."

Senator Tuberville said that President Trump is a "peacemaker."

"President Trump is a deal maker," said Sen. Tuberville. :He is a peacemaker. and he hates war, so he wants to get this over with. He want the Ukrainian people to pay us back for what our taxpayers have spent in Ukraine and a good way to do that is through the minerals; but you are going to see private business do that."

On Monday the Washington Post reported that anonymous sources have told them that the Trump Administration met for a high-level meeting at the White House and decided to pause all future deliveries of U.S. military assistance to Ukraine.

The massive spending levels in support of Ukraine has become increasingly unpopular in Congress.

The move – if this report is accurate - comes just 76 hours after a disastrous discussion between President Donald J. Trump (R), Vice President J.D. Vance and Ukrainian President in the Oval Office which devolved into a shouting match. Zelensky was ultimately dismissed from the White House and a planned double podium press conference for the two Presidents was cancelled and the discussed mineral rights deal was never signed.

The United States and its European allies have sought to weaken Russia by bleeding Putin's army in Ukraine. President Joseph R. Biden (D) vowed to support Ukraine's efforts to drive the Russians out of Ukraine with $220 billion in aid – which has included cash, food, small arms, trucks, sharing U.S. intelligence, artillery, the multiple launch rocket system (MLRS), air defense systems, drone technology, Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, M1 Abrams main battle tanks, and F16 fighter jets. Biden and Zelensky sought a Ukraine restored to its 2014 borders (Russia seized the Crimea and installed puppet regimes in the Donbas region in 2014 – sparking a much lower level war that lasted all the way to the start of the 2022 all out Russian invasion when the proxy war was not going Putin's way.

Russia has a larger army than Ukraine; but American, German, French, and British weapons have served as a force multiplier that has killed Russians in inconceivable numbers.

President Trump said on the campaign trail that the war "would have never happened" had he been in office and promised to negotiate a deal to end the war.

President Trump had hoped to bring the war to an end in his first 100 days in office; but that would mean likely guaranteeing that Ukraine will not join the EU or NATO, that Crimea and most of the Donbas are awarded to Russia, and likely other territorial concessions along Ukraine's eastern border as well as much of its coastline.

President Zelensky balked at those terms and said on Monday that the end of the war with Russia is a "long, long way" from happening – comments that further infuriated Trump.

Tuberville seemed to agree to concessions with Putin.

"We have to make sure that there is a buffer zone between NATO and Russia and that is going to be Ukraine," Sen. Tuberville said. "At the end of the day, we do not need Americans missiles in Ukraine. We do not need CIA bases in Ukraine. We do not need biolabs – American owned biolabs in Ukraine. We do not need soldiers in Ukraine. And right now all of that except the soldiers are happening."

Tuberville expressed his view that President Trump will be able to end the war.

"Thank God he is in office, because we are going to get this over with," said Tuberville.

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