Boris Johnson warns Donald Trump he won’t make America great again if Ukraine falls to Putin
BORIS Johnson warned Donald Trump he will not make America great again if Ukraine falls to Vladmir Putin.
The ex-PM invoked former US President Ronald Reagan as he spoke against a reported plan to pressure Kyiv to cede Crimea and the Donbas border region as a price for peace.
He told a conservative event in Canada: “If you are the party of Ronald Reagan, if you want to make America great again, then you don’t begin a new Republican presidency … by conceding victory to Vladimir Putin.
“It would be a disaster for the West and it would be a disaster for America.”
Mr Johnson also reiterated his call for Ukraine to join Nato and dismissed fears it could further provoke Putin.
He said: “Ukraine has chosen to be a free, independent European nation oriented towards the west, towards the EU, towards Nato.
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“And Ukraine must join Nato.
"That is the only logical way through this.”
Earlier this week Mr Trump and David Cameron dined at Mar-a-Lago - with Brexit on the menu.
The ex-US President and Republican hopeful hosted the Foreign Secretary at his luxury Palm Beach resort – but both sides agreed not to put out photos.
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Lord Cameron, who spearheaded efforts to keep Britain in the UK, discussed “policy matters specific to Brexit” with the Don, who was a big Leave backer.
With Mr Trump calling for European powers to do more to fund Nato, they talked about defence spending going up and “ending the killing in Ukraine.”
Mr Trump’s spokesman said they “also discussed their mutual admiration for the late Queen Elizabeth II.”
Meanwhile the Foreign Office was far more tight lipped, saying only that it was a “productive meeting” that highlighted the “breadth and strength” of the U.K.-U.S. relationship.