Donald Trump's team will begin working with outgoing President Joe Biden's administration to reach an “arrangement” between Ukraine and Russia, expressing concern about the current “escalation”, Mike Waltz said on Sunday , the future White House security advisor.
Since the election of Donald Trump on November 5, Europeans have feared a disengagement of the United States from this conflict, or even American pressure for an agreement to the detriment of kyiv. The president-elect, who is due to take office on January 20, has formed the bulk of his next government, still subject to Senate approval.
“President Trump has been very clear about the need to end this conflict. What we need to discuss is who will be at the table, whether it is an agreement, an armistice, how to bring both sides to the table and what the framework will be. an arrangement,” declared Mike Waltz, appointed to the ultra-strategic post of national security adviser at the White House, on Fox News.
“This is what we will work on with this administration until January and we will continue after,” he assured on the conservatives’ favorite channel. “For our adversaries who think this is an opportunity to play one administration against the other, they are wrong,” he said, while emphasizing the Trump team’s “concern” about of the current “escalation” of the conflict.
The president-elect's bodyguards strongly denounced Joe Biden's decision to authorize Ukraine to strike Russian territory with American-made long-range missiles. During his campaign, Donald Trump was very skeptical of the billions that the Biden administration has granted to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion in 2022. The Republican has repeatedly promised to quickly put end to the war, without specifying how.
On the Middle East, his future national security advisor also pleaded for an “arrangement” which “genuinely brings stability”. With Marco Rubio at the head of diplomacy, Mike Waltz will form a duo described as “hawks” by observers. Donald Trump presented Mike Waltz, elected from Florida and former special forces soldier, as an “expert on the threats posed by China, Russia, Iran and global terrorism”.
