President Donald Trump vowed that U.S. soldiers would not be on the ground in Ukraine.
“What kind of assurances do you feel like you have that going forward, and past this Trump administration, it won’t be American boots on the ground defending that border?” Charles Hurt of “Fox & Friends” asked Trump.
“Well, you have my assurance — and I’m president. I’m just trying to stop people from being killed,” Trump responded. “They’re losing 5,000 to 7,000 people a week in that ridiculous war that should have never happened. If we had a normal president — not even a great president — if we had normal president, it wouldn’t have happened.”
“We’ve got the European nations, and they’ll front-load it, and they’ll have, some of them … they want to have, you know, boots on the ground,” Trump added. “I don’t think it’s going to be a problem, to be honest with you. I think Putin is tired, I think they’re all tired of it. But, you never know.”
“I’ve solved seven wars, we ended seven wars,” he noted. “I thought this would be one of the easier ones, and this has turned out to be the toughest one.”
Russian officials have warned European leaders to refrain from sending troops to Ukraine.
“We reiterate our repeatedly expressed position that we deny any scenarios that envisage the deployment of a military contingent to Ukraine with the participation of NATO states, which could lead to an uncontrollable escalation of the conflict with unpredictable consequences,” Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
