CNN's Boris Sanchez on Thursday identified a "telling moment" during President Donald Trump's joint press event with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The moment came when Trump was asked if Americans would help the United Kingdom if Russia launched an attack on British peacekeeping forces in Ukraine, and the president suggested that they would not.
"When Trump was asked about this backstop, this idea of having the U.S. support any kind of peacekeeping force in Ukraine, he said that the U.S. will be there doing business, will be over there working in the country, digging our hearts out was the way that he described it," Sanchez observed.
"He was asked if British troops were attacked by Russian forces in Ukraine, would the U.S. come to the aid of those forces? Trump acknowledged that it was a bit of an evasive answer. What he said, he jokingly said that the U.K. wouldn't likely need help, and he turned toward Keir Starmer and jokingly asked, could you take on Russia by yourselves?
"Really a telling moment there about Trump's view of Ukraine."
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Trump has suggested that Ukraine hand over vast sums of its mineral wealth to the United States as a precondition for peace with its war with Russia, which the Kremlin launch more than three years ago.
Trump has offered nothing in the way of security guarantees for Ukraine in exchange for this mineral wealth and has flatly ruled out allowing Ukraine to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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