After treating Ukraine as expendable, Trump wants access to the crown jewels of its defense industry.

According to Bloomberg, the United States is seeking technology transfers and potentially intellectual property rights to Ukraine’s battle-tested drone and electronic warfare systems.

Let that sink in.

After cutting military aid to Ukraine, curtailing intelligence sharing, parroting Kremlin talking points from the Oval Office, and praising Putin while blaming Ukraine for defending itself, Trump now appears ready to demand access to the very technologies Ukrainians developed while fighting for their survival.

He promised to end the war in 24 hours. Instead, he handed the Kremlin a blank check.

Since Trump’s return, russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities have intensified dramatically. Ukraine has been left critically short of air defense systems. Civilians who once had some protection are now exposed to nightly barrages.

More missiles. More drones. More murdered children.

Trump did not stop the war. He made it easier for Putin to wage it. He weakened Ukraine’s defenses. He reduced intelligence sharing.

He eased pressure on the russian economy, allowing billions of dollars to flow back into the Kremlin’s war machine. That money is being turned into ballistic missiles, Shahed drones, tanks, and bombs.

And now, after helping russia continue its war of terror, Trump wants access to Ukraine’s most valuable wartime innovation.

Ukraine built this technology with blood.

It was forged in trenches, tested under bombardment, and refined while defending cities that russia tried to erase from the map.

Thousands of Ukrainian engineers and soldiers risked their lives to create some of the most advanced drone warfare capabilities in the world.

These are not just inventions. They are the product of sacrifice, ingenuity, and national survival.

Giving away these technologies without ironclad protections would be an extraordinary mistake.

Almost as catastrophic as surrendering the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in 1994 in exchange for security assurances that proved worthless when russia invaded.

Trump promised peace.

What he delivered was a lifeline to Putin.

And now he appears ready to demand the intellectual property that Ukrainians developed with their own ingenuity, sacrifice, and blood.