March 3, 2025 (EIRNS)—National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, among other things, ridiculed the notion of talking about the details of security guarantees when there’s not even a peace agreement to guarantee. “Well, it wasn’t clear to us that [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy was ready to negotiate in good faith towards an end to this war,” he said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” yesterday. “For us, kind of talking about the details and demands of security guarantees before, as President Trump said, look, I don’t know that we can get both sides to the table at this point, and you can’t kind of trash the other side, going—litigating through the history of this conflict, if we’re going to bring both sides to the table.”
Waltz noted later, when asked about the comparison of Zelenskyy to Winston Churchill he had made in 2021, that Churchill lost an election in 1945 and was not around to transition to peace. “Are you suggesting that President Trump wants Zelenskyy to resign?” asked interviewer Dana Bash. “We need a leader that can deal with us, eventually deal with the Russians, and end this war,” Waltz replied. “And if it becomes apparent that President Zelenskyy’s either personal motivations or political motivations are divergent from ending the fighting in his country, then I think we have a real issue on our hands.” He added that “The patience of the American people to keep giving billions and billions and billions with no end in sight is not unlimited. And we also made that clear to President Zelenskyy at the end of that meeting.”
