{"id":160007,"date":"2025-09-25T18:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160007\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T18:09:09","slug":"tusk-issues-stark-reality-check-about-trumps-pro-ukraine-pivot-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/160007\/","title":{"rendered":"Tusk issues stark reality check about Trump\u2019s pro-Ukraine pivot \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

But Tusk had a different take<\/a> on Trump’s apparent U-turn. Reading between the lines, the U.S. president was seemingly backing away from his pledge to end the conflict, the Polish leader warned Thursday.<\/p>\n

“President Trump has stated that Ukraine could, with the support of the European Union, regain all of its territory. This surprising optimism conceals a promise of reduced U.S. involvement and a shift of responsibility for ending the war to Europe,” Tusk wrote on social media. “Truth is better than illusion.”<\/p>\n

Trump has previously threatened to walk away<\/a> from negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, and has admitted the war is proving more difficult to end than he expected \u2014 though he shocked Western allies with Tuesday night’s missive.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,\u201d he wrote on social media shortly after a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/p>\n

“We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them. Good luck to all!” he added.<\/p>\n

His whiplash-inducing pivots<\/a> on the conflict, from denouncing Russian President Vladimir Putin as “absolutely CRAZY”<\/a> to embracing him at a summit in Alaska<\/a> a few months later, or pausing, then restarting<\/a> delivery of military aid to Ukraine, have left Kyiv and its allies anxious about where Washington really stands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Tusk had a different take on Trump’s apparent U-turn. Reading between the lines, the U.S. president was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5704,141,72840,49,148,151,2363,50,154,51,47,52,48,34123,157,158,2988,159,160,636,161,162],"class_list":["post-160007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-conflict","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-tusk","tag-headlines","tag-kremlin","tag-military","tag-negotiations","tag-news","tag-russia","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s-foreign-policy","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}