While visiting President Trump at the White House on Thursday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he was ready to put “boots on the ground” in Ukraine to provide security guarantees as part of a potential future peace deal.
“I’m clear that the UK is ready to put boots on the ground and planes in the air to support a deal, working together with our allies, because that is the only way peace will last,” Starmer said at a press conference with Trump.
The British leader has been pushing for a European peacekeeping deployment to Ukraine despite Russia’s repeated rejection of the idea. Trump recently said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “no problem” with European troops being sent to Ukraine, but the Kremlin denied his claim.
President Trump was asked by reporters if the US would intervene if British troops in Ukraine came under attack, and he said the British could “take care of themselves” but that he would help if needed.
“If they need help, I’ll always be with the British, okay? But they don’t need help,” Trump said. “The British have incredible soldiers, incredible military, and they can take care of themselves.”
According to POLITICO, during the closed-door meeting, Starmer planned to ask Trump if the US could provide a “backstop” for the European deployment to Ukraine, meaning support with aerial intelligence surveillance and potentially air cover if Russia attacks, signaling Starmer is preparing for the possibility of a direct fight with Russia despite the risk of nuclear war.
It’s unclear if Trump and Starmer reached any kind of understanding over the potential peacekeeping deployment. But as things stand, Russia is saying that it will not accept the presence of troops from NATO countries inside Ukraine, so Starmer’s plan seems unlikely to happen.
Trump told reporters that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin would “keep his word” on a future peace deal. He also appeared to walk back labeling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator” over the lack of elections in Ukraine. When asked about the comment, Trump said, “Did I say that? I can’t believe I said that.”
To the brink!
British military has said troop deployment bad idea, lack troops. So will Starmer be firming up press gangs with clubs?
Probably.
What business do the Brits have in Ukraine?
The USA would not share the war booty with them, they should know that by now. They would only replace the Ukrainian proxies and end up paying Trump for the privilege to sacrifice their own young men to make him a trillionaire.
They wish to “win” the war or to prolong it.
you know what’s aggravating? so many anti-Trump Democrats I know can’t wrap their minds around the fact the US shouldn’t be rah-rahing Zelensky and funding and arming this war. They are so removed from any understanding of historical situations that they really really still believe “Russia invaded. End of story.”
Modern, top of the line propaganda works wonders manipulating the minds of the public, it used to be called brainwashing.
This bad blood between the British and Russia goes all the way back to Paul the 1st.
&, personally, when I watch this horrible war, the history of the 'Crimean War' is not far from my mind.
I think it’s more just Russia refusing to submit, and Russia being too strong in its current form (large).
Sometimes you can miss a forest for the trees of your education.
Congratulations. You figured that there are trees in the forest. Now please read a little Russian History.
I think it’s more just Russia refusing to submit, and Russia being too strong in its current form (large).
Sometimes you can miss a forest for the trees of your education.
I think it’s more just Russia refusing to submit, and Russia being too strong in its current form (large).
Sometimes you can miss a forest for the trees of your education.
A small floating island of trash in the Atlantic wants to have its young men killed at the same rate of the Ukrainians.
Ukraine lost over a million men so the UK could last how long until their 78,000 men are dead?
Did the UK ever fail in provoking war?
I don't know. I am all for a proUK/antiwar statement. I want people to understand unexploded cluster bomb munitions add up daily on the battlefield. (Amputee villagers).
The UK is much more sophisticated than Americans, they operate behind closed doors and documents are kept secret; a century after WW I they have yet to release all documents.
Revisionist history could be embarrassing.
Revisionist burning of old papers, Soviet style.
In Germany they are still finding unexploded bombs.
Trump: "Russia is okay with NATO troops in Ukraine. Zelensky is a dictator." Everybody goes crazy. A few days later: "Did I really say that?"
You are not OK, you made that up.
He made nothing up. Trump changes his mind as the wind blows. he will grandstand first, if it does not go over well he will back peddle, forget that he ever said it.
MAGA call that genius, playing 5 D chess. But he is so good at it that it is easy to fall for him over and over again. All this cutting they are doing now sounds absolutely grand – who would be against giving billions to some island nation to instruct their kids about transgender adn LBGTQ stuff. But behind the scenes the Tech guys, the AI guys, the oligarchs are busy controlling the masses in their way.
No one can make that up, it is AI in action.
This remark ("Did I really say that" reported in the article above) suggests Trump is not playing with a full deck. So does the AI video he just posted, indicating he approves of it. Or was that self-satire?
My comment was a joke.
Real life walking and talking Trump AI is a joke.
He is the punchline.
Trump wouldn't know, he is a programmed, brainless AI on steroids.
Approves or not… It is too late… The Hamas versions disapprove of his Gaza plan…!
Trump can really be a stupid MOFU so often!! 🙁
Man! What a month it's been at the White House! Netanyahu, Abdallah, Macron, and now Starmer!? MAXIMUM CRINGE!!!! …What's that? …It's always been? …Nevermind.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich To Visit Washington
But this guy is the prize.
Trump says, Starmer says…
Reality kicks back.
Translate the doublespeak:
"peace through strength" = more war is better than peace.
"backstop" = entangling alliances to get the war weary fully war-ing anew.
"democracy vs autocracy" = we're the good guys who do whatever we want, coups and forever wars to stop the bad guys who are simply aggressive.
Besides panicking… Starmer ulterior motive is something else….!
And what would be in it for the UK?
Trump made clear to Zelensky to surrender, unconditionally, Ukraine has to pay the US for the costs of the war; he had said days before the Ukrainians started the war.
He thinks he can revive the British empire at least temporarily…! He’s day dreaming…!
The Brits don't get it, they are only vassals not #2 at the top of the colonial empire.
Trump is going through the motions. Some corrupt, leftist European leaders are upset that Trump is negotiating without them. So Trump says you can come over and talk to me if you want. The Trump policy is not going to change. Starmer is another NWO tool.
I can't really figure it out. But it does seem that way. Macron and Starmer fortunately left Washington empty handed. And the spectacle with Zelensky today pretty much took away all doubt about Trump being serious about ending the Ukraine war. If that was staged then the art of acting never existed and was first invented right there.
I expect he’ll end it, yea. You have to remember, some leftists here fell for the vaccines. And it’s sort of part of their religions that only leftists can be good. So, they never expect good from Trump, Buchanan, Vance, etc.
But theirs isn’t reality.
That said, Trump admits he armed Ukraine. He knows he played a part, though he portrays it differently.
People will try to manipulate Trump though, eg. “Take their oil” in Syria.
We could see elections that pick someone new and bad in Ukraine. The elections will be rigged if possible. Perhaps pro-Russians will be excluded.
Starmer can say what he wants; his political standing at home is in the toilet, and he has perhaps 20% support. If he actually proceeds, he will be kicked out of office before the first soldier is ready to leave the UK.
He is absolutely out of his mind, and is determined to provoke a war with Russia.
But by all means, if the UK public is so cowardly as to let him get away with it, go right ahead; AS LONG as it is done without any US commitment, and without an "article 5" NATO cover (which I doubt Hungary or Slovakia would approve), it will be fun to watch.
Ukraine is only a piece of the pie, Russia is the big piece.
How could people with such low ratings win an honest election in the bigger European states?
It looks like undercover secret regime changes, rigged elections, many elected governments were removed and replaced by CIA and MI6 AGENTS. Obama/Biden got rid of the elected Ukrainian government, there was Iran and Chile and many more. Sanctions and Coups go together. So far they did not succeed in Moscow. Navalny croaked on Biden, too bad. MHO.
They are doing it in Romania right now though. And apparently they tried to murder Fico.
Why just boots? Shouldn't they put soldiers on the ground? Boots never stopped anyone. And what kind of boots?
Soldiers in high heels
Well, they are European.
Hopefully just two boots……. with Starmer in them
Starmer's clinging to boots on the ground as "the only way peace will last" comment continues the Russia-intends-to-sweep-across-Europe false narrative.
The British have no business on the continent, Europe is not their colony.
The UK and the USA SHOULD PACK AND GET OFF THE CONTINENT, they should mind their own business.
US in, Germany down, Russia out, Ukraine dead.
All for that!!!!
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2025/02/excellent-from-larry.html#disqus_thread
Have Keir Starmer and Donald Trump wrongly diagnosed that a notable US-UK troop presence in Ukraine under the peacekeeping guise will immunize both nations from nuclear war?
February 28, 2025 Video: A Jewish-Russian Proxy President: Zelensky Transformed into a Neo-Nazi
Absolutely stunning, An Astute Intelligence Op. A++. The election of Zelensky in 2019 was intent upon acquiring the ethnic Russian vote in Donbass. A Russian Jew transformed into a Nazi?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-zelenskys-pro-russian-speech-before-being-co-opted/5819279
https://www.globalresearch.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/zelensky.jpg
He was not coopted, he was the well-selected canddate. His TV show, the Servant of the People, was launched by people who had a well laid plan to woo desparate Russian speaking vote as well as all tired and disillusioned Ukrainians giving them the hope they were desparate for..
There was a time his handlers were so emboldened as to let him talk about his vision of post war Ukraine being run as Israeli state, militarized against terrorists, clearly pointing to Russian speakerx thst have to lose their culture or be eliminated, . This is a matter of record — not conjecture.
Zelenski with an unlikely allies from West Ukraine — is trying to tell the rest of Ukraine that West Ukrainian dialect is the only REAL Ukrainian language. The language Zelenski himself is not good at!
He lost his support the moment he exposed himself as a lier, and is in fact a product of foreign manipulation. By that time it was too late. Anyone, even mildly disagreeing with this new scapegoating Russian speakers — disappeared coutesy of feared intellugence services.
Those blacklist people from other contries. A werk ago Ukraine put on blacklist a very popular Russian rock singer. Shaman. He is popular in Ukraine as well — so he had to be blacklisted. Why ? He was accussed of having a song that is considered patriotic. But it is not a new song – it is called I am Russian. It is a ballad, in a romatic tradition. But he is probably better known for his Dancing on Ice, or We rise and dozens of others.
What does this kind of pettiness mean? Castigate anything Russian — from long dead composers to living rock music performers? Or the latest — 12 year old Russian girls hit Sigma Boy that made it to top ten chart. It made European Parliament go into a meltdown bannning the song as Russian propaganda of male patriarchal culture! There!
The question is — are his global supporters strong? Can they force a U-turn in US new foreign policy.
ONLY if they can get the US to guarantee to back them up. As usual.
The British are not continental Europeans, they are nothing but trouble on the continent, they should pack and go home. All they do is serve as US proxies and in return they can believe they are a co-US-hegemon.
Stupid is as stupid does.
A bankrupt England still trying to play at war.
They once had an empire!
As Benjamin Disraeli pointed out, the only trade England really had was with their Commonwealth. When England lost their colonies, they lost control of their economy and went bankrupt! 1947.
Trump made it clear, he does not want peace at all, he wants Ukrainian UNCONDITIONAL surrender, no less, he, TRUMP is the victor, he demands payment in form of natural resources and colonial submission to the rule of the mighty USA for ever.
No word in connection of peace can be found in Trumps infamous liars dictionary for dummies.
https://x.com/catturd2/status/1895870707311263962
He’s great sometimes.
Leftists when they realise many conservatives and nationalists oppose most war: “I need a safe space!”
He’s great sometimes.
Leftists when they realise many conservatives and nationalists oppose most war: “I need a safe space!”
Only 26,000 warriors out of 78,000 in the British military.
They should last a week before the lot are in body bags.