In a brutally honest Truth Social post today, President Trump calls out the EU/NATO nations to stop buying Russian energy products if they want him to lead the imposition of stronger sanctions against Russia.

The “coalition of the willing” has been openly and privately applying public pressure upon President Trump to push stronger sanctions against Russia.  However, at the same time the EU/NATO are making these demands, they are also purchasing Russian energy products as delivered through third parties.

So today, President Trump posts this:

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A non-diplomatic way of saying, ‘put up or shut up.’

Those of you who understand business terms can well understand “making the monkey jump.”  President Trump is not taking their monkey.

This is a direct response to the public statements being made by EU/NATO leadership, who are -by design- trying to put the responsibility onto President Trump, and defer all their own culpability in the process.

This is similar to the approach President Trump took in 2018 when he very publicly called out German Chancellor Angela Merkel for continuing the Nordstream II Pipeline deal with Russia while simultaneously expecting President Trump to fortify NATO against Russia.

In this exchange, President Trump was in Brussels, Belgium for the start of the annual NATO summit.

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President Trump knows the EU/NATO will not do it.

The French govt has just collapsed.  The EU voted no confidence in Ursula von der Leyen.  The German economy is contracting.  The U.K is facing a financial crisis.  Moldova is facing a very sketchy election this month. The Canadian economy is contracting, etc etc.

The last thing the EU/NATO want to do going into the winter is make their energy prices skyrocket.

Trump well understands the leverage point right now.