Expressing his disappointment with Putin, Trump announced the US will, after all, continue new weapons shipments to Ukraine. While few are taking the threat of secondary tariffs seriously, proponents of the West’s proxy war with Russia are reacting with jubilation to Trump’s U-turn on sending new weapons shipments to Ukraine. Trump’s warIn a major provocation, furthermore, Trump signalled that he supported Ukrainian strikes on Moscow and St Petersburg using long-range US weapons. But the fundamental problem remains that Ukraine is facing mounting challenges mobilising the manpower and maintaining the morale to keep the war going. War abroad can only be financed by war at home: on welfare and democracy.