By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-12 16:34:45 | Updated at 2024-12-12 18:24:48
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Trump to Europe: Overseeing a Ukraine Cease-Fire Would Be Your Job
Wall Street Journal ^ | 12/12/2024 | Laurence Norman Follow in Berlin, Jane Lytvynenko in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Stacy Meichtry
Posted on 12/12/2024 8:21:55 AM PST by marcusmaximus
The outlines of President-elect Donald Trump’s initial efforts to end the war in Ukraine from his visit to Europe last week are starting to emerge for the first time. The main takeaway: Europe would have to shoulder most of the burden of supporting Kyiv with troops to oversee a cease-fire and weapons to deter Russia.
At a meeting in Paris on Dec. 7, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron that he doesn’t support Ukrainian membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but that he wanted to see a strong, well-armed Ukraine emerge from any cessation of fighting, according to officials briefed on the meeting.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: russia; trump; ukraine
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To: marcusmaximus
Can the EU establish a ZEEPER FOREIGN LEGION to enlist their “peacekeepers”?
2 posted on 12/12/2024 8:24:27 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
To: House Atreides
Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron that he doesn’t support Ukrainian membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but that he wanted to see a strong, well-armed Ukraine emerge from any cessation of fighting, according to officials briefed on the meeting
To: marcusmaximus
This entire thing should have been 100% Europe’s “thing” all along. It is Europe that stands to gain or lose. It is Europe that has played games all along. yet it is Europe that has paid far LESS of the cost of NATO than they should (since it is and always has been primarily about protecting.... EUROPE from Russia/USSR.
This is the exact point Trump was trying to make during his first term that got him so much flack and hate...
4 posted on 12/12/2024 8:32:16 AM PST by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists-Satanists: redundant labels.)
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