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European defense bosses are desperate to keep Trump interested in helping Ukraine against Russia, as the U.S. president-elect — a committed NATO skeptic — has the potential to stop military aid, disengage from Europe and focus on China instead.
Over the weekend, his son, Donald Trump Jr., taunted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about “losing [his] allowance.”
While Trump’s name was not mentioned in Paris, the statements by Rutte and Macron were full of subtext aimed at the U.S. president-elect.
The NATO secretary-general was keen to name-check Iran and China — two countries on which Trump is hawkish — and said that Russia’s sharing of missile technology with North Korea could pose a “direct threat” to the U.S. “We must stand together … In doing so, we have to keep our transatlantic alliance strong,” he said.
Macron said the priority was to ensure Ukraine, Europe and NATO remain “strong.”
In what looked like a warning for Trump — who claimed on the campaign trail that he can end Russia’s war in one day — the French president said: “Nothing shall be decided about Ukraine without the Ukrainians, nor about Europe without the Europeans.”
