NEW YORK: The Trump administration would not support the idea of deploying nuclear weapons to Eastern Europe, US Vice President JD Vance to...
NEW YORK: The Trump administration would not support the idea of deploying nuclear weapons to Eastern Europe, US Vice President JD Vance told Fox News in an interview.
"I haven't talked to the [US] President [Donald Trump] about that particular issue, but I would be shocked if he was supportive of nuclear weapons extending further east into Europe," Vance said.
He criticized the previous US administration’s approach. "You have people like [Former US President] Joe Biden sleepily walking us into a nuclear conflict," Vance maintained. "We need cooler heads to prevail, [including] on this Russia-Ukraine thing <…>. The Biden administration’s strategy was literally to shovel weapons at the Ukrainians, allow the Russians and Ukrainians to bleed out and hope that somehow a settlement appeared out of thin air," he continued.
"Donald Trump is engaging in tough diplomacy in enlisting his entire administration to find out what do Ukrainians want, what do they need? What do the Russians want? What do they need? Because the war is stupid. It would have never started if he had been president, and it continuing is not in the interest of anybody," the US vice president concluded.
In an interview with the Financial Times on March 13, Polish President Andrzej Duda urged the United States to deploy nuclear weapons in his country. The Polish leader said he had discussed the issue with Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg. In his vision, Trump could as well move nuclear weapons from Western Europe or the United States to Poland.
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