BREAKING: US boots will not be on the ground in Ukraine and we will 'not be writing blank checks' to Ukraine

Human Events Daily host Jack Posobiec was featured in the new media seat in Tuesday’s White House press conference, during which he pressed on security guarantees being discussed for Ukraine and potential funding that may be going to the country.

"When it comes to the security guarantees, what is the current status of that," Posobiec asked.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, "the President has definitively stated US boots will not be on the ground in Ukraine, but we can certainly help in the coordination and perhaps provide other means of security guarantees to our European allies. The President understands security guarantees are crucially important to ensure a lasting peace, and he has directed his national security team to coordinate with our friends in Europe, and also to continue to cooperate and discuss these matters with Ukraine and Russia as well."

Posobiec also asked about potential forthcoming funding and shipments to Ukraine, saying, "We’re hearing questions about another round of weapons sales and possibly a round of US purchases of Ukrainian drones. Will that money be funded by the US taxpayers?"

Leavitt said that upon taking office, Trump "made it very clear that we’re not going to continue writing blank checks to fund a war very far away, which is why he came up with a very creative solution to have NATO purchase American weaponry because it is the best in the world, and then to backfill the needs of the Ukrainian army and the Ukrainian people and their military."
 

Trump on Tuesday morning said that the US would not be putting boots on the ground in Ukraine to serve as peacekeepers, but rather that France, the UK, and Germany may be doing so. 

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