{"id":2802,"date":"2025-02-17T00:33:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T01:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2025-02-17T02:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T02:34:21","slug":"trump-dismisses-zelenskys-nato-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/trump-dismisses-zelenskys-nato-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump dismisses Zelensky\u2019s NATO warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian leader has accused Moscow of seeking a ceasefire only to attack the US-led military bloc<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>US President Donald Trump has dismissed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants a temporary pause in the conflict with Kiev to regroup and launch a full-scale war against NATO.<\/p>\n

Moscow has repeatedly ruled out any short-term truce, insisting on a permanent, legally binding agreement that addresses the root causes of the Ukraine conflict. However, Zelensky\u00a0has insisted that he knows \u201cfor sure\u201d<\/em> that Putin wants a pause to \u201cprepare, train, take off some sanctions\u201d<\/em> before launching an attack not only on Ukraine but also on NATO states.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can happen in summer, maybe in the beginning, maybe in the end of summer. I don\u2019t know when he prepares it, but it will happen,\u201d<\/em> Zelensky said in an interview with NBC News\u2019 Meet the Press on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine not invited to Russia-US talks \u2013 Zelensky<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Trump dismissed Zelensky\u2019s claims, telling reporters on Sunday that he does not agree with the Ukrainian leader\u2019s assessment at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I don\u2019t agree. Not even a little bit,\u201d<\/em> Trump said, adding that he believes what Putin truly wants for his country is to \u201cstop fighting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been fighting for a long time. They\u2019ve done it before\u2026 They have a big, powerful machine. They defeated Hitler and they defeated Napoleon,\u201d<\/em> Trump added. \u201cBut I think he would like to stop fighting.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump also said he expects to meet Putin in person \u201cvery soon,\u201d<\/em> following their \u201clong and hard\u201d<\/em> phone conversation last week, which was their first known direct interaction since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022. He also called Zelensky to \u201c<\/em>inform\u201d<\/em><\/em>\u00a0him of the discussion, during which the Ukrainian leader allegedly reaffirmed that Kiev is also prepared to seek a resolution to the conflict.<\/p>\n

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Ukraine lacks sovereignty \u2013 Kremlin<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Russia will need to take Ukraine\u2019s lack of independence into account in any future negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday, recalling the failed 2014-2015 Minsk Agreements. Trump\u2019s special envoy, Keith Kellogg, also pointed to the collapse of the Minsk deal, stating, \u201cWe are not gonna go down that path.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

NATO has long described Russia as a direct threat to justify the bloc\u2019s existence after the fall of the Soviet Union, and Western officials have repeatedly claimed that if Moscow wins the Ukraine conflict, it could attack other European countries.<\/p>\n

Putin has dismissed the idea of a Russian attack on NATO as \u201cnonsense,\u201d<\/em> telling US journalist Tucker Carlson last February that the bloc\u2019s leaders are trying to scare their people with an imaginary threat, but that \u201csmart people understand perfectly well that this is a fake.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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US senator hails Zelensky for proxy war effort<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Moscow has consistently opposed Ukraine\u2019s NATO aspirations, citing the bloc\u2019s eastward expansion as a threat to national security and describing it as a key factor behind the ongoing conflict with Kiev.<\/p>\n

Zelensky claimed at the Munich Security Conference that \u201cright now the most influential member of NATO seems to be Putin because he seems able to block NATO decisions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump has indicated that Washington will not support Kiev\u2019s accession as part of a potential peace deal with Moscow, while his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, described Ukraine\u2019s NATO ambitions as \u201cunrealistic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian leader has accused Moscow of seeking a ceasefire only to attack the US-led military bloc US President Donald Trump has dismissed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants a temporary pause in the conflict with Kiev to regroup and launch a full-scale war against NATO. Moscow has repeatedly ruled…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}