President Donald Trump was incorrect when he said that Russia will accept European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine, the Kremlin signaled Tuesday.
While Trump said Monday during a White House meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron that he had "specifically asked" Russian President Vladimir Putin about peacekeepers and that Putin "has no problem with it," the Kremlin contradicted those comments early Tuesday.
When asked about Trump's remarks in a media call, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that "the Russian foreign minister has already said everything about it, I've got nothing to add."
Peskov was referring to comments Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made last week in a news conference following talks in Saudi Arabia with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Lavrov said that “the deployment of troops … [from] NATO countries, but under a foreign flag, under the flag of the European Union or under national flags … is, of course, unacceptable to us.”
Moscow's denial of Trump's claim that Putin would accept European peacekeeping troops is the latest twist in relations between the Trump administration, America's historical European allies and Putin — who until a recent and rapid warming in relations with Washington had been viewed as a global pariah.
Before his spokesperson dismissed the idea of European boots on the ground in Ukraine, Putin told a state media reporter Monday that "we would only welcome" Europe’s involvement in negotiations.
Posted by John3262005
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Falling apart for Trump
I 100000000% believe this is Russia playing Trump with the most basically dumb tactics.
“Hey let’s tell Trump through private communication that we will allow a EU peace keepers, and then when he blabs about it we publicly deny it to embarrass him”
Trump seems to believe that because he is president and that he has a history dealing with Russia that he and Putin are just friends by default, and that’s what makes concessions to Putin so fucking dumb, because Putin will never give a shit about Trump or his perceived success, Putin is literally the “I don’t want Trump to win, I just want the US to lose” Star wars meme.