UK foreign secretary, asked about calling the US president-elect a ‘sociopath’, says ‘there are things I know now that I didn’t know back then’David Lammy told Newscast that Donald Trump would not want an outcome to the Ukraine war that would leave Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, “emboldened”.For the British government, and many other European governments, one of the biggest worries about a Trump presidency is that Trump would halt US support for Ukraine, forcing Kyiv to negotiate a peace settlement that would in practice amount to a Russian victory.Donald Trump signs up to a way of doing foreign policy, which is peace through strength. That is the starting point. Donald Trump will not want a situation where the US troops that he’s got in Europe rise substantially because of further war or threats in Europe. He will not want Putin to leave emboldened from this war.I do recognise that Donald Trump and the Republicans around him have a relationship that goes back with Putin longer than my own in fact. And they will seek to use leverage that they have. So this is a discussion that we will be engaged in.We will seek to ensure and to get across to the United States – and I believe that they would understand this – that hurting your closest allies cannot be in your medium or long term interests. Continue reading…
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2024-11-08 11:13:57
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Trump unconcerned about critical comments, says Lammy – UK politics live
