Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that US President Donald Trump's unexpected pro-Ukrainian words may have a different, less optimistic connotation, Politico reports.
Trump, who previously constantly repeated the Kremlin's theses and claimed that Ukraine would never regain its 2014 borders, this time declared the opposite: Kyiv could defeat Russia and return all its lands. Allies were surprised by this change in rhetoric, and the EU even hastened to explain it by the influence of Trump's regular contacts with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
At the same time, Tusk warned that this optimism could mean the US abandoning efforts to end the war. " President Trump said that Ukraine can, with the support of the European Union, regain all of its territory. Behind this amazing optimism lies a promise to reduce US intervention and transfer responsibility for ending the war to Europe. Truth is better than illusions ," the Polish prime minister stressed on the social network.
Politico recalls that Trump's inconsistent stance on the war has repeatedly raised concerns. We are talking about sharp changes from calling Vladimir Putin "crazy" to a warm meeting with him in Alaska a few months later, as well as attempts to stop and then resume the supply of military aid to Ukraine.
Such "turns" create uncertainty among Kyiv and its allies and make them wonder whether they can count on stable support from Washington in a war situation.
