The NATO Secretary General on Thursday said the U.S. and its European allies have agreed that Russia is a long-term threat, even as Washington has seemed to placate Moscow.
Speaking to reporters after talks with President Trump, NATO chief Mark Rutte said the United States and its European allies "all agree in NATO that Russia is the long-term threat to NATO territory — to the whole of the Euro-Atlantic territory."
He also said the United States remained committed to NATO, despite focusing on conflicts in the Middle East and adversaries in the Asia-Pacific region.
The comments come as Trump officials have suggested Ukraine should expect to cede some land to Russia in exchange for peace, as well as agreeing not to join NATO. Critics of the president’s approach say he’s making concessions even before peace talks begin — and making few demands on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On Thursday, Trump said Russia would be making a concession toward peace if it agrees not to take over Ukraine, as the U.S. president has struggled to negotiate even a limited ceasefire deal between Moscow and Kyiv.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office during a meeting with Norway’s prime minister, Trump was asked what concessions Russia has “offered up thus far to get to the point where you’re closer to peace.”
Ukraine’s military succeeded in stopping Russian forces from taking over the capital Kyiv in the first, fraught days of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. The Ukrainian military later oversaw a Russian retreat from suburbs around Kyiv and other areas in the north of the country, and it launched two major counteroffensives to retake some territory in the east and south of the country, but the front lines have been generally frozen for the past two years.
Trump has said he wants to quickly get to a deal between Russia and Ukraine, and both Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have suggested the U.S. will give up on talks if that doesn’t happen soon.
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