JEFF CHILDERS

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Kiev’s phrase of the day is “security guarantees.” That’s the new demand. A security guarantee is basically a promise: “If someone attacks you, we’ll come help.” Think of it as a military version of co-signing a loan. Ukraine is asking the U.S. to co-sign its safety in order to agree to stop the war.

But that’s a trap, and Trump knows it.

If the U.S. promised to defend Ukraine, then Ukraine would suddenly hold the trigger: it could pick a fight (by “testing” borders, launching operations into contested territory, etc.), then invoke the guarantee when Russia inevitably retaliates. That means U.S. boots on the ground, dragged in on Ukraine’s timetable, not ours.

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