{"id":6230,"date":"2025-02-13T23:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=6230"},"modified":"2025-02-13T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:27:20","slug":"bidens-nato-promise-to-ukraine-provoked-conflict-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=6230","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s NATO promise to Ukraine provoked conflict \u2013 Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has blamed the conflict on his predecessor Joe Biden\u2019s support for Ukraine\u2019s bid to join the bloc<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has blamed the Russia-Ukraine conflict on his predecessor Joe Biden, reiterating his previous claim that the hostilities would never have broken out under his leadership.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI don\u2019t see any way that a country in Russia\u2019s position could allow them, just in their position, could allow them to join NATO. I don\u2019t see that happening,\u201d<\/em> the US president said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAnd long before President [Vladimir] Putin, Russia was very strong on the fact. I believe that\u2019s the reason the war started, because Biden went out and said that they could join NATO, and he shouldn\u2019t have said that,\u201d<\/em> Trump asserted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2025.02\/thumbnail\/67ad89f585f5401b85796f68.jpg\" alt=\"US President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC.\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/612626-trump-is-ok-with-keeping-ukraine-out-of-nato\/\">Trump \u2018OK\u2019 with keeping Ukraine out of NATO<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump also stood by the remarks on the prospects of Ukraine\u2019s NATO membership delivered by his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, on Wednesday, describing them as <em>\u201cpretty accurate.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of the meeting of the so-called Ukraine Defense Contact Group, Hegseth ruled out Kiev\u2019s accession to the bloc as a part of any peace deal, and also dismissed the idea of deploying US troops to the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement,\u201d<\/em> Hegseth stated.<\/p>\n<p>The defense secretary, however, has already somewhat backtracked on his statements, stating that it was ultimately up to Trump to decide on the matter. Speaking to the media on Thursday evening, Hegseth said he was <em>\u201cnot going to stand at this podium and declare what President Trump will do or won\u2019t do, what will be in or what will be out, what concessions will be made or what concessions are not made.\u201d<\/em> Nevertheless, he described his assessment of Kiev\u2019s NATO prospects as <em>\u201cwhat\u2019s likely\u201d<\/em> and a recognition of <em>\u201chard-power realities on the ground.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has blamed the conflict on his predecessor Joe Biden\u2019s support for Ukraine\u2019s bid to join the bloc US President Donald Trump has blamed the Russia-Ukraine conflict&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}