Ukraine without NATO and occupied territories: Trump thinks about Putin's agreement - Politico

According to journalists, with the help of Russian concessions, Donald Trump plans to quickly end the Russian-Ukrainian war, the US presidential candidate Donald Trump is thinking about an agreement with Russia, which NATO will undertake not to expand to the East, including at the expense of Ukraine and Georgia. About it writes Politico with reference to your own sources.

"A probable candidate from the Republican Party considers an agreement under which NATO undertakes not to expand to the East, in particular to Ukraine and Georgia, and negotiates with Russian President Vladimir Putin about how much Ukrainian territory Moscow can leave behind," in the material. Journalists said that Trump is in this way to finish the Russo-Ukrainian War quickly.

In addition, in the case of his victory in the Trump election, it can withdraw security guarantees for alliance countries, which consume less than 2% of GDP for defense. "This can be considered as a violation of Article 5 of the Agreement that obliges every NATO member to take" such measures he considers it necessary "to assist those who have been attacked. But members And they do not oblige any member to respond to military force, "the article reads.

At the same time, journalists emphasized that Trump is unlikely to leave NATO completely. "But even if it does not formally leave the organization, it does not mean that NATO will survive Trump's second presidential term intact," the authors of the material emphasized. We will remind, on June 28, during the debate with President Joe Biden, the former head of the White House Donald Trump rejected the demands of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Ukraine.