Yesterday the meeting with Keir Starmertoday the summit with Volodymyr Zelensky. Dense agenda for Donald Trumpat the center of the future of Ukraine. Yesterday, meeting the British premier, the American president adjusted the shot about the leader of Kiev: after calling him “a dictator” a few days ago, he specified that he had “a lot of respect for him”. The meeting with Starmer was “tremendously productive”, explained Trump, remarking that “the disaster in Ukraine shows why it is so important that Great Britain and other born partners make great investments in their defense skills, in many cases of 4% or 5% of the GDP would be appropriate”. Starmer, for his part, kept highlighting that “in Ukraine we need peace that does not reward the attacker”.
Although confident about reaching a peace agreement for Ukraine, Trump has remarked “or the respite in Ukraine will happen soon or there will not be at all”. The meeting with Starmer had a dual goal: to convince Washington that peace in Ukraine will only last if Kiev and the Europeans will sit at the Table of negotiations with Moscow with the USA and also push to have security guarantees by the United States. And on this last point there has been an important opening from the Tycoon: the agreement on rare lands It will be a “backstop”, that is, a guarantee of safety by American towards Kiev.
Another dossier on the table is the eventual Peacekeeping mission. At the moment there are no too many hopes that the US troops take part in it, but Washington allies push on the fact that the plan can only work with US support for European forces on the ground through intelligence, surveillance and air support. Starmer’s reasoning was categorical: without Trump’s security guarantees, Russian President Vladimir Putin could order a new invasion of Ukraine. On the point The Donald was equally clear: first of all it is necessary to reach a peace agreement. Then he opened a glimmer: “We are a backstop because we will be there, we will work in the country”. In a nutshell, Moscow would think twice about attacking Ukraine if Washington built an economic imprint in the country to extract critical minerals.
That’s not all. During his dialogue with Starmer, Trump said he was in favor of the application of theArticle 5 of the NATO Treaty If it were invoked by the NATO troops possibly located in Ukraine according to Peacekeeping, in the face of a Russian attack. At the same time, he remarked that “there will be no reason”. During yesterday, a new meeting between the delegations of Washington and Moscow was recorded in Istanbul after that of Riad. A relaxing signal, even if the road is uphill. The Kremlin kept to clarify that on the attached territories it does not intend to treat: “These territories have become an integral part of our country. It is an absolutely indisputable fact, “said the spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Ukrainian diplomacy called the Kremlin’s statements “ridiculous”: “Russia cannot claim any of the Ukrainian territories. The way Russian officials refer to the Russian Constitution to justify annexations is ridiculous. “
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