Buying high-tech American weapons comes with an implicit condition: they can only be used with U.S. approval.

The U.S. has long leveraged this strategy to control governments. Do you think Saudi Arabia could use its American-made jets to attack Israel?

Now, Trump is pressuring Ukraine to start negotiation under these terms:

1. Allowing parts of Ukraine to be annexed,

2. Permanently blocking NATO membership, and

3. Signing a “mineral deal” to sell resources to the U.S. at cut-rate prices.