It is less significant that Trump now is trying to grab headlines by playing hard to get and appearing to maybe help or maybe not help Ukraine and more significant that domestically, the pressure to materially support Ukraine has never been more impactful in the US.

The fact that Trump is doing this is less an indicator that he is genuinely changing his mind and more of an indicator that the tolerance even among conservatives to fuck around and vacillate on this is running out.

Simply put, even if Trump and other US establishment politicians rightwing and democrat, want to be against Ukraine it is becoming politically untenable and impossible to do openly in the eyes of voters in the US. That is a meaningful difference even though Trump will obviously attempt to go back and forth on this decision as many times as possible before finally agreeing to do it after it would have probably helped the most of course…

Trump will jump ship on Putin and russia the second the cold water touches his toes, and the cold water is about to touch his toes as he sees russia’s military campaign tumble head over heels into a backwater nation amidst a refugee crisis trying to claim it is staging an offensive… with Europe on the otherhand disentangling away from one of the last easy imperial leverage points the US still had as a global power over the rest of the world, military technology.

This isn’t a question of whether Trump wants to jump ship and join a more genuine support of Ukraine, it is a question of how long can Trump afford to refuse to do so before it existentially threatens his strongman image essential to his authoritarian appeal? In this Putin and Trump share a common enemy, time.