A senior US official responded to Poland’s call to deploy nuclear weapons on the territory of the Eastern European country.
The Trump administration will not support the idea of deploying nuclear weapons to Eastern Europe, US Vice President JD Vance said in an interview with Fox News .
“I haven’t talked to President Trump about this specific issue, but I would be very surprised if he supported the expansion of nuclear weapons further east into Europe,” Mr. Vance said.
He criticized the approach of the previous US administration: “We have people like former US President Joe Biden pushing us on the path towards a nuclear conflict.”
“We need cool heads to solve this problem, especially in the Russia-Ukraine situation. The Biden administration’s strategy is essentially to throw weapons at the Ukrainians, let Russia and Ukraine wear each other down and hope that a peace agreement will emerge from nowhere,” he continued.
“Donald Trump is engaging in tough diplomacy, mobilizing his entire administration to find out what the Ukrainians want, what they need? What the Russians want, what they need? Because this war is pointless. It would never have started if he were president, and it’s not in anyone’s interest to continue,” the US Vice President concluded.
Previously, in an interview with the Financial Times on March 13, Polish President Andrzej Duda called on the US to deploy nuclear weapons in the country.
The Polish leader said he had discussed the issue with Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg. In his view, President Trump could also move nuclear weapons from Western Europe or the United States to Poland.
Earlier, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Poland was in talks with France over President Emmanuel Macron’s proposal to deploy French nuclear deterrents to protect Europe from Russian threats. Moscow called the idea “extremely confrontational”.
