{"id":144110,"date":"2025-02-19T11:09:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T11:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/?p=144110"},"modified":"2025-02-26T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:04:25","slug":"ex-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-says-trump-parroting-russian-propaganda-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/news\/2025\/02\/19\/ex-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-says-trump-parroting-russian-propaganda-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-defence secretary Ben Wallace says Trump parroting Russian \u2018propaganda lines\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace has accused US president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> of echoing \u201cpropaganda lines\u201d from the Kremlin.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former defence secretary\u2019s comments came after Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for starting war against Russia. In a press conference on Tuesday, the US president criticised Kyiv\u2019s negotiation skills and suggested the war in Ukraine could have been \u201csettled very easily\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After an extraordinary meeting between senior American and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, Trump said of Ukraine: \u201cThey&#8217;ve had a seat [at the table] for three years and a long time before that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou should have never started it. You could have made a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Touting his own negotiation skills, Trump also said he was \u201cmore confident\u201d about a peace deal after Tuesday&#8217;s talks, attended by US secretary of state Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Ukraine\u2019s absence from the talks, Trump said: \u201cI&#8217;m very disappointed. I hear that, you know, they&#8217;re upset about not having a seat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, they&#8217;ve had a seat for three years and a long time before that. This could have been settled very easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>***Politics.co.uk is the UK\u2019s leading digital-only political website. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/subscribe\/\"><i>Subscribe to our daily newsletter<\/i><\/a><i> for all the latest news and analysis.***<\/i><\/p>\n<p>He also called for elections to take place in Ukraine as he took aim at president Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s \u201capproval ratings\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The US president said: \u201cWe have a situation where we haven&#8217;t had elections in Ukraine, where we have martial law, essentially martial law in Ukraine, where the leader in Ukraine, I mean, I hate to say it, but he&#8217;s down to 4 per cent approval rating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cIf Ukraine wants a seat at the table, wouldn&#8217;t the people have to say it has been a long time since they had an election?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s not a Russian thing, that&#8217;s something coming from me and coming from many other countries also.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wallace was asked about Trump\u2019s comments in an interview with LBC on Wednesday morning.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Responding, the former defence secretary said: \u201cWell, I know Mar-a-Largo is quite close to Disney World, but that was pure Disney in both sort of facts and reality.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think what you were actually hearing is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>&#8216;s realisation that if you don&#8217;t have skin in the game, you don&#8217;t get a say, as much as you think you do.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I saw them all sitting around that table in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI\u2019m sure they did a lot of interesting things in four hours. But fundamentally, if you want to get a peace deal in Ukraine, you&#8217;re going to need the people who are going to have to put skin in the game to make it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked how Trump\u2019s comments will go down within Russia, Wallace added: \u201cI think the Kremlin have been pretty happy since day one.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the White House is repeating those sort of propaganda lines that, you know, Ukraine started the war, etc, then of course they&#8217;ll be really happy that people are rewriting history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Josh Self is Editor of Politics.co.uk, follow him on Bluesky <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/josh-self.bsky.social\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Politics.co.uk is the UK\u2019s leading digital-only political website. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics.co.uk\/subscribe\/\"><i>Subscribe to our daily newsletter<\/i><\/a><i> for all the latest news and analysis.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Wallace has accused US president Donald Trump of echoing \u201cpropaganda lines\u201d from the Kremlin.\u00a0 The former defence secretary\u2019s comments came after Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for starting war against Russia. 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