{"id":78327,"date":"2025-08-18T09:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78327\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T09:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T09:08:08","slug":"no-getting-back-crimea-peninsula-nato-membership-are-off-the-table-trump-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/78327\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Getting Back Crimea\u2019 \u2013 Peninsula, NATO Membership Are Off the Table, Trump Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

In one of US President Donald Trump\u2019s typical late-night social media posts, Trump exclaimed that, in negotiations to end the Russian invasion, Ukraine\u2019s joining NATO and reclaiming Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, are both off the table as far as he is concerned.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident [Volodymyr Zelensky] of\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight,\u201d Trump posted on his Truth Social platform, on the eve of a White House meeting with the Ukrainian president and European leaders.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY\u00a0UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Russia annexed Ukraine\u2019s Crimean Peninsula in 2014, an illegal action that Trump never demonstrated the courage to address, much less resolve, in his first term, running from from 2016 to 2020.<\/p>\n

At the time, Trump\u2019s dealings with Ukraine were much more keenly focused on blackmailing Kyiv to deliver dirt on Hunter Biden \u2013 son of his upcoming presidential political rival, Joe Biden, and a board member of a Ukrainian energy company \u00ad\u2013 proposing to them that the consequences of not doing so would be to lose US aid.<\/p>\n

(He lost that election to Biden\u00a0anyway, and some of those involved in the scheme<\/a> were convicted.)<\/p>\n

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Other Topics of Interest<\/p>\n

Trump-Zelensky Showdown: High-Stakes Meeting for Ukraine\u2019s Future<\/a><\/p>\n

Retired military officers offer stark warnings ahead of White House talks, suggesting Kyiv may have to make painful concessions as Trump may strong-arm Zelensky on peace deal following Putin summit.<\/p>\n

Ukraine\u2019s membership in NATO has been discussed at Alliance headquarters in Brussels, but its accession has been delayed. Several partners in Europe and the US have suggested bilateral military agreements in the meantime, in case Russia again invades its neighbor after an eventual peace deal in the 30-month-old full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n

After his initial Truth Social outburst, Trump added, \u201cBig day at the White House tomorrow. Never had so many European Leaders at one time. My great honor to host them!!!\u201d\u2013 referring to his meeting with such leaders as France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron, Britain\u2019s Keir Starmer, and Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni, among others, including NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.<\/p>\n

The meeting with Zelensky and the Europeans follows Trump\u2019s summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Friday in Anchorage, Alaska.<\/p>\n

During those meetings, Putin reportedly agreed to an \u201cArticle 5-like\u201d security guarantee with Ukraine\u00a0as part of an eventual deal to end the war, referring to the part of NATO\u2019s charter that describes an attack on one Alliance member as an attack on all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In one of US President Donald Trump\u2019s typical late-night social media posts, Trump exclaimed that, in negotiations to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-78327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}