How important are European allies to Trump?

With Trump critical of NATO, how important are his European allies in shaping the next steps on Ukraine? Angie Wong, Republican Strategist, responds.

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00:00With Trump being critical of NATO, how important are his European allies now?

00:05I think President Trump was really hoping that NATO and EU leaders would step up and help Ukraine

00:11so that the US does not have to get involved, certainly with any troops on the ground.

00:15I think that is a hard no for President Trump, is not to commit any sort of US troops into this war.

00:22NATO and EU, obviously, they were invited to the White House following the Alaska summit

00:27between President Trump and Vladimir Putin.

00:31And it looked great, certainly for the cameras, but at the end of the day, not much was done.

00:37Last week, the countries, some of the countries in the EU have pledged peace troops

00:42to go into helping secure the Ukraine-Russia border, but only post-war.

00:48So we have to get there first.

00:50Right now is, what can we do to get Putin to the table to meet with Zelensky?

00:55And of course, Putin had teased, I'm happy to meet Zelensky, but in Moscow.

01:00And of course, Zelensky is not happy about that.

01:03And he's proposing, counter-proposing to meet somewhere else.

01:07So right now, it's a word of words.

01:09Putin is going to continue bombing Ukraine.

01:12And I think that is where we are right now.

01:14It is a very, very hard line.

01:17Putin wants to get into Ukraine and wants to take his territories, if not more.

01:22And it doesn't appear as though NATO or EU leaders are doing anything very, very proactive

01:29about it.

01:29They're waiting for Trump's instructions.

01:31So I think that's where Trump is right now.

01:33He's either going to pivot or he's going to double down.

01:35But right now, additional sanctions are on the table.

01:38He's already warned Putin that that's going to happen.

01:43But whether or not that's going to be enough to actually move Putin to stop, no one knows.

01:48Putin has been talking to us.

01:53And of course, some people have been talking to China as a nation, foley Pushisi.

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