There is a specific reason why President Donald Trump made a U-turn on the war in Ukraine following Vladimir Putin’s threat to drop a nuclear bomb on two major cities.
It appears that the US president has recently had a change of heart over the war in Ukraine after things have taken a worrying turn.
This comes after an ally of Putin threatened to drop bombs on a European country and it seems that Trump has turned back on previous statements.
The president took to his own social media platform Truth Social where he said that Kyiv would be able to ‘win all of Ukraine back in its original form’.
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Trump went on to share that he believes the country could get back its ‘original borders from where this war started’ in collaboration with Europe and NATO.
This change of heart seems to have come after he meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, post the UN General Assembly in New York on September 23.
Trump said he changed his mind about Ukraine after ‘getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia military and economic situation’.
He said: “Putin and Russia are in BIG Economic trouble, and this is the time for Ukraine to act.”
In the lead-up to his meeting with Zelenskyy at the UN, the Wall Street Journal reported the president met with US officials who suggested he be tougher on Vladimir Putin’s war.
Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg and the new UN ambassador Mike Waltz were allegedly in the meeting too.
The Journal added that intelligence officials briefed them on the latest situation, revealing Russia has made only small progress in recent years.
According to Vice President JD Vance, who spoke in North Carolina on September 24, Trump ‘doesn't feel like [the Russians] are putting enough on the table to end the war’.
However, while Trump has seemed to side with Zelenskyy, he still restricts US weapons from striking deep inside Russia, reports the Independent.
It’s miles away from the way he thought about the situation back in February at the Oval Office when Trump told his Zelenskyy that he couldn’t win the war against Russia, saying: “You don’t have the cards right now.”
He told him that his ‘country is in big trouble... you’re not winning this’.
His change of heart came right before reports that one of Russia's leading propagandists has urged the Kremlin to drop two nuclear bombs on the UK during his state-run TV show, which has been shocking for many to learn.
Putin ally Vladimir Solovyov was speaking with Sergei Karaganov about the chances of a nuclear war being something Russia could win when he revealed that tactical atomic weapons could stop potential conflict with the US.
He said Europe should know Russia is prepared to use its weapons, and dropping two nuclear bombs on Oxford and Cambridge would be send a message to the world.
Karaganov has previously said that the UK 'should be nuked off the map’.
Having learned of Trump’s new position, the Kremlin swiftly responded.
Trump wrote of the country in his defence of Ukraine: "With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this war started, is very much an option.
"Why not? Russia 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. This is not distinguishing Russia. In fact, it is very much making them look like 'a paper tiger'."
To the ‘paper tiger’ comment, the spokesperson for Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, said: "[Russia] is not a tiger but a bear. Russia is associated with a bear; there are no paper bears."
LADbible Group previously reached out to Downing Street for comment on the UK bomb threat.