“We need a leader that can deal with us, eventually deal with the Russians, and end this war,“ National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told CNN.
His remarks and those of other key Republicans follow Trump’s dramatic turn against Zelensky during a contentious Oval Office meeting on Friday.
Zelensky had tried, during the heated exchange, to say that Kyiv still needed security guarantees if it is to trust a peace deal with Moscow after a bitter three-year war sparked by the Russian invasion.
“Trump ensures that Americans will be involved in Ukraine’s mining industry,“ the message read. “This prevents Russia from launching an invasion, because attacking Ukraine would mean endangering American lives -- something that would force the U.S. to respond.”
When Republican officials were asked on Sunday talk shows whether Putin could in fact be trusted, they instead suggested that Zelensky might pose the greater obstacle to peace.
“I mean, it’s up to the Ukrainians to figure that out, but... we need President Zelensky to do what is necessary.”
One Republican senator spoke out Sunday in defense of Zelensky, however.
“Quite frankly,“ he added, “I think that would spiral Ukraine into chaos right now trying to find who is the negotiator to bring an issue to peace.”
“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin,“ said Senator Chris Murphy, who has emerged as one of Trump’s most outspoken critics.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted, however, that the White House was clear-eyed about Putin’s Russia.
But Rubio added that “you cannot end a war unless both sides come to the table.”
European leaders have rallied around Ukraine, but the dizzying pace of events has left them struggling to make sense of what some fear could be the most tectonic change to Western security architecture since shortly after World War II.
To a post calling for the United States to withdraw from NATO and the United Nations, Musk responded simply, “I agree.”
He told an NBC journalist in December that he would “absolutely” consider leaving NATO if fellow alliance members weren’t “paying the bills...(and) treating us fairly.”
Of the UN, Trump said on February 4 that it has “great potential, and based on the potential we’ll continue to go along with it, but they got to get their act together.”
“It’s not being well run, to be honest and they’re not doing the job.”
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