{"id":625293,"date":"2026-06-26T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=625293"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:45:00","slug":"is-trump-2-0s-escalation-strategy-against-russia-starting-to-take-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=625293","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump 2.0’s ‘Escalation’ Strategy Against Russia Starting To Take Shape?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Trump 2.0’s ‘Escalation’ Strategy Against Russia Starting To Take Shape?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The US is preparing to radically intensify the Ukrainian Conflict over the coming year…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Trump\u2019s decision to sign the \u201cG7 leaders\u2019 joint statement on geopolitical issues<\/a>\u201d calling for more arms to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia signaled that he\u2019ll now \u201cescalate to de-escalate<\/a>\u201d (E2DE) through a \u201cwar of attrition<\/a>\u201d waged by Ukraine.<\/strong> The EU will back this campaign to the hilt and Trump 2.0 will seek to\u00a0obtain control over Russia\u2019s natural resources companies<\/a>\u00a0as its top goal via the coercive selling of shares under pain of continued NATO-backed Ukrainian strikes against associated infrastructure if Putin refuses.<\/p>\n

The contours of his administration\u2019s E2DE strategy are now starting to take shape. <\/strong>Nearly two weeks before he signed the abovementioned joint statement, the House\u00a0passed a bill<\/a>\u00a0that would \u201cprovid[e] more than $1 billion in security and reconstruction aid. It would make another $8 billion available for Ukraine\u2019s defense through loans.\u201d On the sidelines of the G7 Summit, Trump then said that he\u2019ll soon reimpose oil sanctions against Russia, which would\u00a0disrupt Putin\u2019s Sino-Indo balancing act<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Around the same time<\/a>, \u201cA group of US senators has introduced legislation that would amend existing law to allow Ukraine to use assets confiscated from the Central Bank of Russia and other Russian sovereign assets to purchase military equipment.\u201d All of this coincided with reports that the Senate also introduced language into the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) calling for\u00a0continued intelligence support to Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0across all of next year to aid its quest to reconquer its lost land (and possibly more<\/a>).<\/p>\n

To top it all off, Zelensky then expressed confidence shortly thereafter that Trump will follow through on his\u00a0explicitly conveyed interest<\/a>\u00a0in allowing US companies to manufacture air defense missiles (and likely also other arms) in Ukraine, thus tremendously raising the stakes if Russia strikes these facilities. <\/strong>Of course, it\u2019ll take time for the US to replenish its own missile stockpile after the\u00a0Third<\/a>\u00a0Gulf<\/a>\u00a0War<\/a>, but the writing is on the wall and it reads that Trump 2.0 is preparing to radically intensify the\u00a0Ukrainian Conflict<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Specifically, its E2DE strategy is expected to closely follow what the Wall Street Journal outlined last fall and which was analyzed\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0at the time, namely helping Ukraine surpass Russia\u2019s drone capabilities, more secondary sanctions, and provoking unrest inside of Russia. To that end, the House and Senate initiatives will bolster Ukraine\u2019s strike capabilities (including long-range missile ones), while Trump\u2019s sanctions threat will deal with the second part. This combination might lead to unrest inside of Russia.<\/p>\n

To be clear, that final phase is unlikely to materialize since the diverse Russian people remain united due to keenly understanding the existential stakes of this conflict as regards its grand strategic goal of\u00a0\u201cBalkanizing\u201d their civilization-state<\/a>, plus they\u2019re not prone to protest much either.<\/strong> Nevertheless, the US is still preparing to try anyhow,\u00a0hoping to at least<\/a>\u00a0generate enough disapproval of the status quo that the ruling United Russia party is forced to enter into a coalition after September\u2019s next Duma elections.<\/p>\n

Looking forward, the groundwork is rapidly being established for Trump 2.0 to make next year all about Russia,<\/strong> and the Democrats\u2019 possible recapture of Congress or at least one of its chambers after November\u2019s midterms could facilitate this. If Russia doesn\u2019t achieve its goals before that happens or cut a reasonably fair deal by that time, then there\u2019ll be no realistic chance of any such deal till 2029 at the earliest, thus meaning that only victory or defeat would be possible before that date. The clock is ticking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 06\/25\/2026 – 21:45<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is Trump 2.0’s ‘Escalation’ Strategy Against Russia Starting To Take Shape? Authored by Andrew Korybko, The US is preparing to radically intensify the Ukrainian Conflict over the coming year… Trump\u2019s decision to sign the \u201cG7 leaders\u2019 joint statement on geopolitical issues\u201d calling for more arms to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia signaled that he\u2019ll now… Continue reading Is Trump 2.0’s ‘Escalation’ Strategy Against Russia Starting To Take Shape?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/625294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}