British Foreign Secretary David Cameron speaks during a joint press conference with the Albanian Prime Minister after a meeting in Tirana on 22 May 2024.
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Former British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday that he feared that US President Donald Trump’s approach to achieving peace in Ukraine may set a dangerous example.
“My hope that Donald Trump is doing is using a quite shocking language and quite shocking approaches and to unlock the situation, to try a situation where Ukraine wants to interact on peace, Russia wants to interact on peace, and to reach there,” Cameron told Live Live in Singapore on Thursday.
Cameron said, “My fear is always that it goes ahead of that (and) (and the approach about Trump’s world is more that the large power in the neighborhood is sovereign, and you should not interfere with what you want to do.”
He can be “very worrying” for Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – like Ukraine, all share a limit with Russia.
“I think it will be very worrying for Ukraine. These are independent, sovereign countries and we should support the idea that independent sovereign countries should not be invaded,” he said.
Cameron served as the Prime Minister of UK from 2010 to 2016 and as Foreign Minister in the government of former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak from 2023 to 2024.
Ukraine said that shortly after his comments, it was said that if the Russia accepts the scheme, it was ready to support the offer of the White House for a 30-day ceasefire. The US on Tuesday agreed to resume military assistance and intelligence with Ukraine as part of the plan.
Russia began its full -scale invasion of Ukraine over three years ago.
Trump has worried European colleagues by turning to Moscow, breaking up for decades of US foreign policy abroad.
The Russian attack in Ukraine has expressed apprehension in the entire Baltic countries that they may be the next military targets of President Vladimir Putin.
Even though the Baltic State has been a part of the NATO and the European Union since 2004, the three have used all three as their currency using the euro, but their geographical location makes them weak.
In particular, while Estonia and Latvia share an eastern border with Russia, Lithuania shared a western border with Russian exclusive Kalinigrad.
“If we jump directly in the position of Ukraine, I just don’t accept that we should somehow say to Vladimir Putin: ‘Okay, this is your neighborhood, you can walk in any country, what you want, you can affect any country,” Cameron said.
He said, “The idea that a bully should be able to go away with whatever they want in their neighborhood. I don’t think it is going to be good for Singapore, it will definitely be good for Britain, and I don’t think it would be good for America.”
Business war worry
Away from Ukraine, the UK’s Cameron was sought on the global trade war, with uncertainty with the concern of Trump’s tariffs on Wall Street.
“I am worried about this because I am an independent businessman.
“I am afraid that Donald Trump’s approach to the world he sees a country and says that if you have found a surplus in business with me, you are shutting me down. This is not a matter. If there was a surplus in every country in the world, who would have a loss?
“But, and this is an important, but, as with Donald Trump, what he is saying has a real and understandable concern,” Cameron said.
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