German Chancellor Olaf Scholz does not expect the United States to stop military aid to Ukraine after Donald Trump takes office. He said this today at a press conference after a meeting with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Both heads of government emphasized that their countries will help Ukraine defend against Russian aggression as long as necessary.
“I don’t expect the United States to stop supporting Ukraine in its defense,” Scholz said. The United States is now the largest provider of military aid to Ukraine, which has been resisting armed aggression by neighboring Russia for almost three years, with Germany in second place.
Donald Trump will replace US President Joe Biden in the White House on Monday. Trump, a Republican, has criticized the amount of US aid in the past and said he wants to end the war quickly.
Also according to Scholz and Kristersson, the war should end as soon as possible, but according to them, Kyiv should decide on the terms of the peace negotiations.
The prime ministers of Germany and Sweden also agreed that their countries would continue to support Ukraine. Kristersson emphasized that Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to achieve the goals of the war and, on the contrary, the result of the invasion of Ukraine is that Sweden and Finland became members of NATO.
The German chancellor also repeated that one of the topics of the upcoming elections to the Bundestag will be additional financing of aid to Ukraine. According to him, German voters will decide whether Ukraine will be helped at the expense of domestic spending or not. Scholz wants to finance the money for Ukraine from a loan, which he says should suspend the so-called debt brake, a constitutional measure that prevents the country from quickly going into debt. The opposition parties – the conservative CDU/CSU union and the liberal FDP – reject further borrowing of the country. According to Scholz, however, this means that aid to Ukraine will have to be financed at the expense of pensions or investments in German infrastructure.
Source: zpravy.tiscali.cz
