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Top EU diplomat warns Trump that Europe can’t shoulder Ukraine war burden alone
Politico ^ | 09/25/2025 | Felicia Schwartz and Nicholas Vinocur

Posted on 09/25/2025 3:47:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

UNITED NATIONS — Europe alone is not responsible for helping Ukraine bring an end to its war with Russia, EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas warned Thursday.

That is particularly true when considering President Donald Trump’s pledge to halt the fighting, she said in an interview on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.

“He was the one who promised to stop the killing,” Kallas said. “So it can’t be on us.”

Her comments come as Ukraine and its allies try to divine the meaning of Trump’s sudden about-face on the war between Kyiv and Moscow.

In a Truth Social post earlier this week, Trump wrote that he believed Ukraine “is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form.” He added that this would come with the support of the European Union and NATO, which “can do what they want” with American weapons.

While many European officials welcomed the more supportive shift in tone toward Ukraine, some cautioned that Trump might be suggesting that he intends to pull back American involvement and absolve Washington of responsibility.

There is no NATO without the U.S., said Kallas, the high representative for foreign affairs of the European Commission.

“America is the greatest ally in NATO. So if you talk about what NATO should do, that also means what America should do,” she said.

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KEYWORDS: bidencrimefamily; bidenstooges4ww3; byefelicia; feliciaschwartz; kajakallas; nicholasvinocur; notourproblem; notourwar; stunningandbrave; surrenderdorothy; sux2beyou; yurpeons; yurpsproblemnotours
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1 posted on 09/25/2025 3:47:28 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

You don’t say 🙄


2 posted on 09/25/2025 3:50:04 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Then, the EU should tell Ukraine to take any deal it can get to end the war.

There is no scenario where US taxpayers will tolerate anymore money spent on a war that has absolutely nothing to do with our national security.

3 posted on 09/25/2025 3:50:08 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: MinorityRepublican; Kazan

Stunning and brave Kaja Kallas.


4 posted on 09/25/2025 3:50:14 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MinorityRepublican

That’s a bit like my brother in law telling me he can’t shoulder his son’s corvette payments on his own.


5 posted on 09/25/2025 3:50:39 PM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If you cant handle the war, why dud you foment the war?


6 posted on 09/25/2025 3:53:52 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: MinorityRepublican
When we were there keeping Europe from indulging in their favorite sport of war against other European states they whine and cried about it.

Now they want us involved again.

You know what? No.

Tired of it.

7 posted on 09/25/2025 3:55:57 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Europe doesn’t have to fund the whole thing, just do their fair share.


8 posted on 09/25/2025 3:57:07 PM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: rdcbn1

The Eeee Yew needs to fix its own local problems.


9 posted on 09/25/2025 3:59:00 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: libertylover
Europe doesn’t have to fund the whole thing, just do their fair share.

The Cold War is over. Europe should fund for the entire defense of Ukraine. If they are unwilling or not capable of doing so, then Russia should conquer Ukraine.

I'm pro-Ukraine. But at the same time, it's not 100% our problem.

10 posted on 09/25/2025 3:59:05 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

If NATO countries won’t stop buying Russian oil and gas they should cease to be NATO countries.

Suck it, Euroweenies!


11 posted on 09/25/2025 4:00:20 PM PDT by TigersEye (Terrorism has been institutionalized by the left. Ask no quarter. Give no quarter.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It would be more valid to state the United States fomented this war, rather than claimed to be able to end it.

Like it or not, this is all our nation’s doing.


12 posted on 09/25/2025 4:00:24 PM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: cuban leaf
That’s a bit like my brother in law telling me he can’t shoulder his son’s corvette payments on his own.

It's like what that Polish guy said: a continent of 500 million people needs a country of 350 million people to protect them from a country of 150 million people. Hard no, we've had enough.

13 posted on 09/25/2025 4:05:52 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: MinorityRepublican

Germany with a little help from Italy, Hungary and Finland took on the entire CCCP in 1941.

Where is the Fourth Reich’s fighting spirit?


14 posted on 09/25/2025 4:05:57 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MinorityRepublican

It’s not our problem beotch..


15 posted on 09/25/2025 4:08:47 PM PDT by A strike (f the UK/MI6 effort to sucker the US into perpetuating their delusion of British world importance)
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To: jacknhoo

Maybe not all, but definitely largely. Biden said something like …. a small incursion would be OK. Shortly before the Russian invasion, Kamala went to Europe and, at a summit, alluded to Ukraine possibly becoming a NATO member.


16 posted on 09/25/2025 4:08:54 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: MinorityRepublican

Seeings how we’ve been supporting them the past years W/o Europe.


17 posted on 09/25/2025 4:11:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: MinorityRepublican

This turd should quit trying to pick a bigger war then. So sick of this stupid war crap.

EU/UK have big boasting mouths and they always threaten everyone and expect the US to do the big fight for them.

Hell with that.


18 posted on 09/25/2025 4:12:40 PM PDT by dforest
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To: libertylover

Yes they do. We are no longer paying for it.


19 posted on 09/25/2025 4:13:58 PM PDT by dforest
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To: MinorityRepublican

C’mon, Europe, you can do it! Ya got the bund back together, you’re on the ‘42-yard line, and America’s out of the war!


20 posted on 09/25/2025 4:15:28 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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