The U.S. doesn’t have an “unlimited checkbook” with Ukraine, and what President Donald Trump is “trying to do now is the lightest touch possible to send the message to” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt.

“This starts with the leaders of Europe’s outright rejection of President Trump’s leadership to end this war and encourage President Zelenskyy to fight on,” Holt told Newsmax’s “America Right Now.”

“The thing is … if he wants to fight on to some point where there’s a block point to get to a negotiation, OK, great. But that’s not what this is. What this is is keep sending weapons. They want up to 10 Patriot batteries, $28 billion.

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