Printed On 3 Sep 2025
United States President Donald Trump has recommended that the US might step up the variety of armed forces stationed within the Japanese European nation.
Talking with reporters alongside Polish President Karol Nawrocki within the White Home on Wednesday, Trump mentioned the US might contribute extra to Polish safety, a seeming departure from his insistence that European nations take higher accountability for his or her personal safety.
“We’ll put extra there if they need,” he mentioned within the Oval Workplace. “We’re with Poland all the best way, and we’ll assist Poland shield itself.”
Nawrocki, a right-wing historian and avid Trump ally who was sworn in as Poland’s new president final month, thanked Trump for his dedication to continued cooperation along with his nation.
“These relations for me, for Poland, for Poles, are crucial,” he mentioned.
Whereas questions of European safety had been entrance and centre in the course of the Wednesday assembly, Trump touched on a number of different matters as effectively. Listed below are a number of key takeaways.
Frustration over Ukraine
Trump continues to specific frustration over diplomatic efforts to finish Russia’s struggle in Ukraine which have to date produced few outcomes.
The US president hinted at potential measures to place higher strain on Russia if no progress is made, saying that “you’ll see issues occur” if Russian President Vladimir Putin fails to take steps in direction of a peace deal.
“I’ve no message to President Putin. He is aware of the place I stand, and he’ll decide someway,” he mentioned.
European allies have known as for higher sanctions in opposition to Russia and pressed Trump for extra particulars about US assist for a Ukrainian “safety assure” that Kyiv sees as key to any settlement. Each the US and European allies, nevertheless, have been imprecise about what commitments they might be keen to make.
Doable deployment to New Orleans
Throughout the joint presser, Trump additionally touched on points nearer to dwelling, once more elevating the potential of deploying the Nationwide Guard to extra US cities and justifying Tuesday’s army assault on a Venezuelan boat.
The US president continues to increase the listing of main cities the place he has threatened to deploy troops and federal brokers, saying that he might ship federal forces to New Orleans, the place native officers have rejected the concept, however the state’s Republican governor is prone to be supportive.
“That is about scare ways and politicising public security,” mentioned New Orleans Metropolis Council Vice President Helena Moreno, the frontrunner within the metropolis’s mayoral race.
A decide dominated earlier this week that Trump’s deployment of the Nationwide Guard to Los Angeles amid a sequence of protests was unlawful.
Nevertheless, the ruling seems to have had little impact on Trump’s insistence that extra such operations will comply with, as he ramps up confrontations with cities which are seen as strongholds of Democratic opposition.
On Tuesday, he acknowledged that he would deploy forces to different main cities resembling Chicago and Baltimore, regardless of objections from state and native officers.
Trump defends army strike on vessel within the Caribbean
Trump mentioned {that a} video of a US deadly army strike on a vessel within the Caribbean, which the federal government alleges was transporting medication, will function a deterrent in opposition to drug traffickers.
“There was huge quantities of medicine coming into our nation to kill lots of people, and, everyone absolutely understands that,” Trump mentioned. He added, “Clearly, they received’t be doing it once more. And I feel loads of different folks received’t be doing it once more. Once they watch that tape, they’re going to say, ‘Let’s not do that.’”
Analysts have mentioned that the strike, which killed at the least 11 folks, is probably going unlawful and that the vessel might have been interdicted by regulation enforcement upon coming into US waters.
“‘Being suspected of carrying medication’ doesn’t carry a loss of life sentence,” Adam Isacson, a defence and safety analyst on the Washington Workplace on Latin America, a US-based assume tank, mentioned in a social media publish.
However the administration has pushed a maximalist interpretation of the usage of US army pressure in opposition to felony organisations and drug trafficking, suggesting that extra such operations might come sooner or later.
Leaders in Latin American international locations have expressed alarm at that chance, saying that US raids in opposition to felony teams on their territory could be a severe violation of sovereignty.
The Trump administration has acknowledged, with little proof, that these on the vessel had been members of the Tren de Aragua felony group in Venezuela, which the US designated a terrorist organisation earlier this yr.
In latest days, the administration has pushed doubtful hyperlinks between the group and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro because it massed naval forces off of South America.