RT Interviews TLO President Diane Sare: Halting U.S. Munitions to Ukraine?

July 2, 2025 (EIRNS)—On July 2, RT interviewed president Diane Sare of The LaRouche Organization, to get her thoughts on the announcement that the United States will temporarily halt some munitions shipments to Ukraine. Sare said of the announcement, “Frankly, I’m happy to hear it. I wish we would have stopped arming Ukraine some time ago. I think that would have made it possible for the war to end sooner.”

Sare pointed to her concern about new war threats: a new British doctrine says that the U.S. will carry out military aggression with China while they handle Russia, and the role of Elbridge Colby—an American national security policy professional involved in this announcement and who is a China hawk—suggests that the weapons may be sent instead to where they can be used to threaten China.

Asked to comment on the statement of Zelenskyy’s advisor Mykhailo Podolyak that this announcement is “fake news” and Russian propaganda, Sare replied this may or may not be true. She pointed to the complexity that the American administration is also capable of lying, as with the recent bombing campaign of Iran that took place when the administration was pretending that negotiations were ongoing.

She elaborated on the problem of untrustworthiness of the Trump administration: “I think that President Trump uses a kind of New York real estate style of negotiating where nobody really knows what’s going on until it happens. So I really don’t know what to make of it. And I think there’s a serious trust issue with the Trump administration, as I said, which did not benefit. There is a lack of trust, justifiably, after the U.S. decision to launch the strikes on the Iranian nuclear facilities.”

Asked whether Europe could supply Ukraine the weapons, Sare identified that physical reality establishes limits to the situation. “I don’t think so. I mean, we are reaping the fruits of an industrial shutdown, foolish energy policies, massive industrial layoffs and closures all over Europe. So, you know, we’re sort of in a propaganda war as much as a physical war. I don’t think that Europe has the capacity, and perhaps no matter how much money the Europeans are willing to pay the American defense contractors, I’m not sure that Americans can produce the weapons to sell Europe to send to Ukraine either.”