Rising early the next day, the President was the star guest on his favourite breakfast telecast. And he told Fox and Friends that if Volodymyr Zelensky, Sir Keir Starmer or the other leaders who descended on the White House on Monday thought they had succeeded in dragging the US leader out of Vladimir Putin’s orbit, they were entirely wrong.
European leaders with Donald Trump in the Cross Hall of the White House on Monday (Photo: Ukrainian Presidency / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)Of course, only hours before, Russia had launched its biggest air assault in more than a month on Ukraine, with 270 drones and 10 missiles. More than 95 followed last night.
Trump repeated the false narrative promoted by Putin that the Ukraine conflict has its roots in the expansion of Nato’s transatlantic alliance following the end of the Cold War. “Long before Putin, it was always a no-no,” insisted the President, falsely stating the history of Nato’s expanded architecture. In fact, as early as 1991, President Boris Yeltsin said that Russia hoped to join the alliance, and in June 2017, Putin discussed Russian membership of Nato with President Bill Clinton.
Trump and Putin before their joint press conference in Alaska (Photo: Gavriil Grigorov/ AFP)Most worryingly of all for European leaders, Trump appeared to walk back any suggestion that he might make an imminent announcement regarding US involvement in providing security guarantees for postwar Ukraine. Asked on Fox whether he could promise his Maga followers that there will be no boots on the ground supporting any peacekeeping operations, he said “you have my assurance, you know I’m President”. Just hours earlier, The Washington Examiner – a newspaper popular with Trump’s supporters – reported that the President was flirting with the idea of a military presence in Ukraine. That dispatch may have sparked his rapid effort to shut the conversation down and head off any threat of revolt from the grassroots.
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Trump also publicly indicated for the first time that he was sympathetic to Putin’s demand for the entire eastern region of Donbas to be ceded to Russia in any negotiations that begin. “Donbas, right now, as you know, is 79 per cent owned and controlled by Russia,” he told his Fox inquisitors. Zelensky and the Europeans, he said, “understand what that means”. Saying Ukraine needs to be “flexible” in any negotiations that ensue, any support for the surrender of Donbas would allow Russian forces to leapfrog over Ukraine’s existing defensive lines in the territory.
Trump spoke especially fondly of his encounter last Friday with the Russian dictator in Alaska. “You saw, when he got off his plane, I got off my plane. There’s a warmth there… there’s a decent feeling”, he said.
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