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NATO Summit Kicks Off in Ankara Turkey, With Trump Influence Meaning There Will Be NO Zelensky Speech and the Ukraine Issue Will Be Sidelined

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NATO Summit Kicks Off in Ankara Turkey, With Trump Influence Meaning There Will Be NO Zelensky Speech and the Ukraine Issue Will Be Sidelined
by Paul Serran Jul. 6, 2026

Those who suggest Trump is now favoring Ukraine should pay attention to his very clear signs.

Right around the G7 Summit back in mid-June, a version spread like wildfire in the whole MSM: US President Donald J. Trump would have soured on Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and was now backing Ukraine.

This caught the news cycle at the same time as the other false narrative in which Ukraine was finally winning the war.

However, during this same G7 meeting, Trump totally distanced himself from the Ukrainian war effort during an exchange with reporters, saying that the US was merely selling weapons, not giving them any more.

But hey, why would you believe Trump himself when you can trust a bunch of globalist pundits – right?



Yesterday (5), pro-Ukraine British writer Owen Matthews – who can’t be called a Kremlin stooge or Russian propagandist, wrote on The Telegraph an illuminating article about the many foreign-policy problems that Kiev is experiencing, and how this affects Tuesday’s (7) NATO summit.

Matthews writes about ‘a deepening split within the [NATO] alliance over funding for Ukraine’s war effort, with some of Kyiv’s allies in Central Europe now backing out of sending more money’.

Yes, you read it right.

Volodymyr Zelensky, Matthews reminds us, will attend the Nato summit as a guest, where he once was a star.

And worse: Kiev’s neighbors have all turned on them.

“’Ukraine is fighting, but Poland bears the main burden of defending the border and needs a special treatment’, [Prime Minister] Donald Tusk [said]. [He has] instructed his defense and foreign ministers ‘to be careful with any declarations of further financial support from Poland’.

[…] Robert Fico, Slovakia’s prime minister, has refused to support Nato’s plans to commit large-scale financial and military aid at the summit, declaring that ‘Slovakia will not pay for Ukraine’s military expenses.’ Andrej Babiš, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, has ruled out support for a €90 billion (£78 billion) EU loan to Ukraine and blocked the export of Czech light aircraft to Kyiv. And Peter Magyar, Hungary’s new prime minister, who succeeded the hardline anti-Ukraine Viktor Orbán, has also ruled out arming Ukraine.”

This is a real tragedy for Zelensky’s regime.

Besides acknowledging this, the Telegraph writer also goes the extra mile and assigns the blame to the real guilty party: Zelensky.

He ‘chose to honor Ukrainian partisans who fought alongside the Nazis in the Second World War and carried out massacres of tens of thousands of Poles and Jews.’

Finally, the main theme of this post: Ukraine has been sidelined so as to ‘not upset Trump’.

“More problematically still for Zelensky are reports that he will not be part of the main summit the next day and will not, as in previous years, make a barnstorming address to Nato’s leaders. Instead, the alliance has opted to keep Zelensky and the whole Ukraine issue on the sidelines for fear of upsetting Trump.”