U.S. President Donald Trump's insistence that Ukraine won't join NATO was "clumsy" and a "mistake," German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said at the Munich Security Conference today.
Earlier this week, Trump as well as senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, said Kyiv won't be joining the defense alliance and shouldn't expect to return its territory to pre-2014 borders.
Hegseth has since tried to row his remarks back slightly.
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Germany’s defense minister said it was a mistake for US President Donald Trump to take the bargaining chips of Ukrainian NATO membership and territorial concessions off the table ahead of possible talks to end Russia’s war with Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking on his arrival at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Boris Pistorius said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “not budged an inch” on his negotiating position so it was not in the other side’s interests to do so.
Should the European Union be excluded from talks on the Ukraine issue, it could mark a turning point in Europe’s relations with the US, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said.
ReplyDelete"This may prove to be a historic, pivotal moment for transatlantic relations, after which we risk taking different paths," he pointed out at the Munich Security Conference.
"The choice that we are making will decide whether we will live in peace or in a situation of crisis, and it will also define our future and the future of the generations to come in Europe," Pistorius noted.