Trump on Monday said the United States would ship "billions of dollars' worth" of military equipment to NATO members, paid for by the alliance, to be handed over to Ukrainian forces battling grinding Russian advances. Trump had earlier this month suggested NATO would "100 percent" pay for U.S. weapons, which would be sent to Ukraine.

One of the questions I am constantly asked by friends and colleagues here in Poland – many of them having refugees from the Russian invasion of Ukraine – is “when is [US President Donald] Trump going to figure out that Putin is a congenital liar?