--- title: "Donald Trump pushes back Ukraine war deadline in sign of support for Kyiv" type: "post" post_id: "8449" slug: "donald-trump-pushes-back-ukraine-war-deadline-in-sign-of-support-for-kyiv" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/01/11/donald-trump-pushes-back-ukraine-war-deadline-in-sign-of-support-for-kyiv/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/01/11/donald-trump-pushes-back-ukraine-war-deadline-in-sign-of-support-for-kyiv.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/01/11/donald-trump-pushes-back-ukraine-war-deadline-in-sign-of-support-for-kyiv.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/01/11/donald-trump-pushes-back-ukraine-war-deadline-in-sign-of-support-for-kyiv.txt" published: "2025-01-11T23:39:49+00:00" modified: "2025-01-11T23:39:49+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: - "Italy" - "Ukraine" site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- **I’m not surprised in the least!** ***(I’ve omitted some paragraphs for brevity, read them at the link)*** [**Financial Times**](https://www.ft.com/content/989dc02e-2a13-4c21-8ad0-0b32e098c410) ``` US president-elect Donald Trump has pushed back his campaign pledge to end the war in Ukraine in “24 hours” to several months, in a shift European partners have interpreted as a sign that his administration will not immediately abandon support for Kyiv. ``` > Two European officials told the Financial Times that discussions with Trump’s incoming team in recent weeks revealed they had not yet decided on how to solve the conflict, and that **support to Ukraine would continue after the US president’s inauguration on January 20.** > > “***The whole \[Trump\] team is obsessed with strength and looking strong, so they’re recalibrating the Ukraine approach,”*** said one of the officials. > > The incoming administration was also **wary of comparisons being made with Joe Biden’s calamitous US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was something the Trump camp would not like to see repeated in Ukraine,** the official added. > > Trump earlier this week suggested that **“six months” was a more realistic target to end the war.** His appointee as special envoy for the war in Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, told Fox News on Wednesday that the aim was to stop the conflict in “100 days”. > > **European leaders and officials have been making the case to Trump and his team that continued US military aid is needed to put Kyiv in a stronger position for peace talks** and help bring Moscow to the negotiating table, nearly three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion. > > **Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who met Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort last week, has ruled out that Washington would “abandon” Ukraine.** > > ***“I don’t foresee a US disengagement,” she said*** in a news conference on Thursday, adding that Trump had proven capable of blending diplomacy with deterrence. “**On peace, Trump may be someone who is moving forward towards a solution, but I don’t think that means abandoning Ukraine.”** > > Meloni said that **Ukraine would have to receive concrete security guarantees as part of any potential diplomatic deal to end the active conflict.** > > *“Security guarantees are fundamental if we actually aspire to have peace in Ukraine,”* **she said.** “*We all know that in the past Russia has violated the agreements that it has signed.* Without security guarantees, we cannot have certainty that will not happen again.” **Meloni is shameless.** > **Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sought to persuade Washington and other Nato allies to anchor those security guarantees in a concrete timeline for his country to join the US-led defence alliance.** But both Biden and Trump have signaled reluctance in endorsing such a step, and so have some European leaders including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. > > French President Emmanuel Macron meanwhile has suggested that European troops could be deployed to Ukraine to ensure that Russia does not attack again — an idea that also lacks unanimous support in Europe. > > Russian President Vladimir Putin would “welcome” any approach from Trump and was prepared for “dialogue” with the US, the Kremlin said on Thursday. > > Putin’s main goal in any talks was to **create new security agreements that would ensure Ukraine never joins Nato** and that the US-led military alliance pulls back from some of its eastern deployments, according to a former senior Kremlin official and another person who has discussed this with the Russian president. > > *“He wants to change the rules of the international order so there are no threats to Russia. He is very worried about how the world will look after the war,”* the former senior Kremlin official said. *“Trump wants to roll back Nato anyway. The world is changing, anything can happen.”* > > Western officials including Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte have sought to stress the importance of Trump ensuring “peace through strength” in Ukraine, and avoiding a defeat for Kyiv that would embolden Putin and his allies in China, Iran and North Korea. > > *“We cannot have a situation where we have \[North Korean leader\] Kim Jong Un and the Russian leader and \[Chinese President\] Xi Jinping and Iran high-fiving because we came to a deal which is not good for Ukraine, because long-term that will be a dire security threat not only to Europe but also to the US,*” Rutte told the FT last month. **Rutte is a crackpot- Seriously, the idea of these leaders high fiving is so so absurd, but, it’s a good way to sell war to western audiences**.