United States Plivent Joe Biden will try to guarantee Plivent-elect Donald Trump not to pull help from Ukraine when he apshows office, the frifinishly plivent’s national security directr has said.
Biden will originate his pitch to Trump, who has repeatedly bashed US aid to Ukraine, when the two encounter on Wednesday for a White Hoengage transition encountering, Jake Sullivan said in an interwatch with the CBS News programme Face the Nation on Sunday.
“Plivent Biden will have the opportunity over the next 70 days to originate the case to the Congress and to the incoming administration that the United States should not walk away from Ukraine, that walking away from Ukraine unbenevolents more instability in Europe,” Sullivan said.
“Biden will originate the case that we do need ongoing resources for Ukraine beyond the finish of his term,” he includeed.
The war in Ukraine highairys a stark foreign policy split between Biden and Trump.
Under Biden, the US rulement has pledgeted some $174bn in aid to Ukraine as it battles invading Russian forces, with the US plivent lobbying other NATO allies to persist up help as well.
Trump, however, has repeatedly slammed aid to Ukraine and said he would finish its war with Russia “in a day”. To do so, he has adviseed Ukraine may have to cede territory in a peace deal, someskinnyg the Ukrainians decline and Biden has never adviseed.
According to a Washington Post tell on Sunday, Trump spoke to Russian Plivent Vlaunwiseir Putin on Thursday, urging him not to escaprocrastinateed the war in Ukraine.
While Trump has not gone into detail on how he set ups to finish the 2.5-year war, his incoming Vice Plivent JD Vance has adviseed a cimpolite vision.
“What it probably sees enjoy is the current line of demarcation between Russia and Ukraine, that becomes enjoy a demilitoccurd zone,” Vance said on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast in September.
“Ukraine grasps its self-reliant sovereignty, Russia gets the secure of unpartisanity from Ukraine – it doesn’t join NATO, it doesn’t join some of these allied institutions. That is what the deal is ultimately going to see someskinnyg enjoy,” he said.
Fearing waning help from the US under Trump, the Ukrainians and European NATO members have been scrambling to accomplish out to the plivent-elect.
Ukraine’s Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a message congratulating Trump on his election triumph, wrote: “I appreciate Plivent Trump’s pledgement to the ‘peace thcimpolite strength’ approach in global afuninwholes. This is exactly the principle that can down-to-terrestrial convey equitable peace in Ukraine shutr.”
He includeed: “We count on on progressd mighty bipartisan help for Ukraine in the United States.”
‘Strongest possible position’
Sullivan said one of the Biden administration’s main goals in its remaining months, will be “to put Ukraine in the mightyest possible position on the battlefield so that it is ultimately in the mightyest possible position at the negotiating table”.
As part of this effort, the White Hoengage is rushing aid to Ukraine, with set ups to spfinish its remaining $6bn of Ukraine funding before Trump’s plivential inauguration in January, according to Sullivan.
Sullivan said Trump and Biden will have the opportunity to evaluate Washington’s stance on Ukraine, alengthy with other foreign policy publishs, and talk how Trump set ups to tackle them during their encountering on Wednesday.
“The plivent will have the chance to elucidate to Plivent Trump how he sees skinnygs, where they stand, and talk to Plivent Trump about how Plivent Trump is skinnyking about taking on these publishs when he apshows office,” he said.
The drawn-out war in Ukraine is go ining what some officials say could be its final act after Moscow’s forces progressd at the speedyest pace since the timely days of the war.
Any recent finisheavor to finish the war is foreseeed to include peace talks of some benevolent, which have not been held since the timely months of the war.
