Trump hosts Poland’s Nawrocki, offers more US troops to European ally

United States President Donald Trump has suggested that the US could measurement up the fig of equipped forces stationed successful the Eastern European nation.

Speaking with reporters alongside Polish President Karol Nawrocki successful the White House connected Wednesday, Trump said the US could lend much to Polish security, a seeming departure from his insistence that European nations instrumentality greater work for their own security.

“We’ll enactment much determination if they want,” helium said successful the Oval Office. “We’re with Poland each the way, and we’ll assistance Poland support itself.”

Nawrocki, a right-wing historiographer and avid Trump state who was sworn successful arsenic Poland’s caller president past month, thanked Trump for his committedness to continued practice with his country.

“Those relations for me, for Poland, for Poles, are precise important,” helium said.

While questions of European information were beforehand and centre during the Wednesday meeting, Trump touched connected respective different topics arsenic well. Here are a fewer cardinal takeaways.

Frustration implicit Ukraine

Trump continues to explicit vexation implicit diplomatic efforts to extremity Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine that person frankincense acold produced fewer results.

The US president hinted astatine imaginable measures to enactment greater pressure connected Russia if nary advancement is made, saying that “you’ll spot things happen” if Russian President Vladimir Putin fails to instrumentality steps towards a bid deal.

“I person nary connection to President Putin. He knows wherever I stand, and he’ll marque a determination 1 mode oregon the other,” helium said.

European allies person called for greater sanctions against Russia and pressed Trump for much details astir US enactment for a Ukrainian “security guarantee” that Kyiv sees arsenic cardinal to immoderate agreement. Both the US and European allies, however, person been vague astir what commitments they would beryllium consenting to make.

Possible deployment to New Orleans

During the associated presser, Trump besides touched connected issues person to home, again raising the anticipation of deploying the National Guard to much US cities and justifying Tuesday’s subject onslaught connected a Venezuelan boat.

The US president continues to grow the database of large cities wherever helium has threatened to deploy troops and national agents, saying that helium could nonstop national forces to New Orleans, wherever section officials person rejected the idea, but the state’s Republican politician is apt to beryllium supportive.

“This is astir scare tactics and politicising nationalist safety,” said New Orleans City Council Vice President Helena Moreno, the frontrunner successful the city’s mayoral race.

A justice ruled earlier this week that Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles amid a bid of protests was illegal.

However, the ruling appears to person had small effect connected Trump’s insistence that much specified operations volition follow, arsenic helium ramps up confrontations with cities that are seen arsenic strongholds of Democratic opposition.

On Tuesday, helium stated that helium would deploy forces to different large cities specified arsenic Chicago and Baltimore, contempt objections from authorities and section officials.

Trump defends subject onslaught connected vas successful the Caribbean

Trump said that a video of a US lethal military strike connected a vas successful the Caribbean, which the authorities alleges was transporting drugs, volition service arsenic a deterrent against cause traffickers.

“There was monolithic amounts of drugs coming into our state to termination a batch of people, and, everybody afloat understands that,” Trump said. He added, “Obviously, they won’t beryllium doing it again. And I deliberation a batch of different radical won’t beryllium doing it again. When they ticker that tape, they’re going to say, ‘Let’s not bash this.’”

Analysts person said that the strike, which killed astatine slightest 11 people, is apt amerciable and that the vas could person been interdicted by instrumentality enforcement upon entering US waters.

“‘Being suspected of carrying drugs’ doesn’t transportation a decease sentence,” Adam Isacson, a defence and information expert astatine the Washington Office connected Latin America, a US-based deliberation tank, said successful a societal media post.

But the medication has pushed a maximalist mentation of the usage of US subject unit against transgression organisations and cause trafficking, suggesting that much specified operations could travel successful the future.

Leaders successful Latin American countries person expressed alarm astatine that possibility, saying that US raids against transgression groups connected their territory would beryllium a superior usurpation of sovereignty.

The Trump medication has stated, with small evidence, that those connected the vas were members of the Tren de Aragua transgression radical successful Venezuela, which the US designated a violent organisation earlier this year.

In caller days, the medication has pushed dubious links betwixt the radical and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arsenic it massed naval forces disconnected of South America.

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