Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) mentioned Europeans “should be threatening things to” Russian President Vladimir Putin that causes them discomfort in an interview that aired Sunday.
“The Ukrainians clearly have a seat at the table, and then the United States will be the intermediary as we try to establish a peace deal. The Europeans need to demand a seat at the table by being uncomfortably aggressive, which is something they haven’t done,” Crenshaw advised CBS Information’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation,” discussing the conflict in Ukraine.
“You should be threatening things to Putin that actually make you uncomfortable because that’s how — that’s the only language Putin speaks, is power,” the Texas Republican added.
Final Wednesday, President Trump mentioned he expects to fulfill face-to-face with Putin a number of instances, with the president implying that they may most likely first meet in Saudi Arabia.
“We ultimately expect to meet,” Trump mentioned within the Oval Workplace. “In fact, we expect that he’ll come here, and I’ll go there, and we’re going to meet also, probably in Saudi Arabia. The first time we’ll meet in Saudi Arabia.”
In his CBS look, Crenshaw mentioned European leaders “need to be talking about where” they’re “going to be putting actual troops on the ground.”
“Stop following our lead and actually take the lead. Let us be actually holding you back. That would be an ideal situation and vastly change the power dynamic when dealing with Putin,” he added.
The international minister of Poland, Radosław Sikorski, has mentioned {that a} united European military “will not happen.”
“If you understand by … the unification of national armies, it will not happen,” Sikorski mentioned. “But I have been an advocate for Europe, for the European Union, to develop its own defense capabilities.”
