- Trump rejects the Starmer of military support to Ukraine.
- The treatment of American minerals says with Kyiv enough for the security of Ukraine.
- The president of the United States accepts the invitation of King Charles for the visit to the State of the United Kingdom.
Washington: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, has fired the call of the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, to greater US military support for Ukraine, insisting in his place that a mineral agreement with kyiv is the key to guaranteeing his security against Russia.
Starmer, who was with Trump in the White House for the first time since the US leader began his second term, lit the charm, saying that peace in Ukraine had only been possible due to Trump.
In the Oval office, Starmer delivered an invitation letter from King Charles for a visit to the State. Trump accepted. A date has not been established.
But the underlying differences between the allies remained on the table for the private conversation that followed. They include transatlantic frictions about US Russia conversations to end the Ukraine War.
Before the meeting, Starmer had argued that there could be no long -term peace in Ukraine without Firm American security guarantees, an argument that Trump almost dismissed.
“We are a support because we will be there, we will be working,” as a result of the economic association, Trump said. “We are going to have many people there.”
Starmer is the last European leader to meet with Trump after French president Emmanuel Macron arrived at the White House on Monday for a friendly encounter that, however, showed marked differences about the Russian war with Ukraine and the impulse of the United States by a rapid high fire.
“It is moving quite fast,” Trump said about the diplomacy of Alto El Fuego, expressing optimism that Russian President Vladimir Putin would maintain his part of any bargain. “Either it will be quite soon or will not be at all.”
“We have to do well,” Starmer said at a joint press conference with Trump. “Peace cannot be that rewards the aggressor.”
Shocking allies
Trump, who assumed the position on January 20, has shocked the traditional allies of the United States in Europe when approaching Putin, calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy a “dictator” and demanding a recovery of recovery of the financial support of the United States for kyiv. On Thursday, Trump distanced himself from the dictator’s comment and said he gets along with the Ukrainian leader.
Zelenskiy is expected to be in Washington on Friday to sign an agreement with Trump in rare land minerals, an agreement that the Ukrainian leader said it would depend on greater American help. Trump portrays the agreement as a way of recovering the American money that has been spent to support Ukraine. It does not include specific security guarantees for Ukraine.
Starmer has pointed out that Great Britain will increase defense expense and it is expected to try to assure the president of the United States that Europe will provide guarantees of support and security to Kyiv if peace conversations with Russia are successful.
A senior Trump administration official told reporters that they were satisfied with Starmer’s promises to increase defense spending.
Putin warned on Thursday “Western elites” that not trying to sabotage a possible approach between Russia and the United States, saying that Moscow would use its diplomats and intelligence services to frustrate such efforts. The comments were an apparent reference to the European Union and Great Britain.
Trump has destroyed the norms of foreign policy and internal policy since the beginning of his second term, shaking the allies by advocating the American property of the Gaza Strip and promising commercial tariffs for American friends and enemies alike.
Trump said the United States would reach a commercial agreement with Britain “very little”, after one of its assistants told journalists that they were looking for an “economic relationship with the United Kingdom to rely on reciprocal and equal trade.”
In the Oval office, Trump complained about commercial relations with the European Union, which Great Britain left in 2020.
“In our trade, obviously, it is fair and balanced,” said Starmer, “and in fact you have a little surplus, so we are in a different position.” The United States has a commercial surplus in goods with Great Britain, according to the statistics of the United States government.
Meanwhile, American vice president JD Vance, who also attended the meeting, said leaders would discuss what he described as “infractions in freedom of expression” in Great Britain that have affected US technology companies.
“We have had freedom of expression for a long time, a long time in the United Kingdom,” Starmer replied.
Friendly relationships
Trump’s relationship with Starmer had a friendly start in September with a two -hour dinner in New York in Trump Tower. The British leader’s team said that the environment was warm with a “friendly host.”
Like Macron, Starmer will argue that a hurried peace agreement with Russia, without the participation of Ukraine or European nations, could lead to additional instability in Europe, which would not be good for the United States.
Starmer has said that he is open to British troops that provide security guarantees to Ukraine, but only together with other European nations and “the correct conditions in place.”
European countries are concerned about the high level of conflict in Ukraine now, said the United States official, while a high fire would give them more comfort that their role is more about the maintenance of peace than to deter the active conflict.
“The type of force depends a lot on the political settlement that is done to end war,” said the US official. “That compensation is part of what today’s leaders are going to discuss.”
