President-Elect Donald Trump had made peace in Europe a key campaign pledge, but several NATO member states are dedicated to total Ukrainian victory and will discuss how to “thwart” him and keep Kyiv in the war even if Washington withdraws support.
London, Paris, and Warsaw are to form the nucleus of a European effort to keep Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia going even if the Trump Presidency from January 2025 tries to bring an end to the Ukraine war. Exactly how he will achieve this campaign pledge has not been publicly articulated to date. However, a ‘land swap’ between Kyiv and Moscow or a Korean-style demilitarised zone has been discussed as options open to Trump, neither of which aligns with Ukraine’s official ambition of total victory.
British Tory-aligned broadsheet The Daily Telegraph cites senior government — but unnamed — sources who tell of what the paper says is “expected to plot a last-ditch attempt to thwart Donald Trump’s efforts to scale back US support for Ukraine”. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is in Paris today, having reviewed troops with French President Emmanuel Macron on the streets of Paris for Armistice Day, and the pair had talks on defence matters during the day.
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It is stated the pair will have talked about keeping Ukraine fighting and how to persuade outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden to give a last-minute signoff on allowing Ukraine to use the long-range bunker-buster cruise missiles given to it by Western partners to launch strikes deep inside Russia. Ukraine has been calling for authorisation to use these advanced modern weapons in this way for months and it is a key part of President Zelensky’s ‘Victory Plan’, but the U.S. believes it risks serious escalation with Moscow.
A UK government source told the paper: “We are very keen to make sure we can make the most of the time between now and Jan 20 [when Mr Trump becomes US president] and not just put everything on hold until the next administration”. At the same time, a Downing Street official has told The Guardian newspaper that Starmer and Macron are moving to “best to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position going into the winter”. […]
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