Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon at Turning Point's annual AmericaFest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona, on Dec. 21, 2024. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)
"I’m going nuts right now to make sure there’s something on Monday, an announcement," he added. "Because you have Kellogg saying it will take 100 days, the old foreign policy establishment are saying six months."
Bannon reportedly said Trump must communicate to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that "there’s a new sheriff in town, and we’re going to get a deal done, and we’re going to get it done quickly."
He added that Zelenskyy ought to pay attention to how Trump pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into accepting the terms of a cease-fire and hostage release deal with Hamas before the president-elect takes office.
Bannon lamented to Politico how he views NATO as having morphed into more of an American protectorate than an alliance.
Lt Gen. Keith Kellogg, former National Security Advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, speaks at the Trans-Atlantic conference in Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris, regarding a fresh strategic approach toward Iran on Jan. 11, 2025. (Siavosh Hosseini/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
"Number 1, their military hasn’t even got to Kyiv. In three years, they couldn’t get there," Bannon said. "They haven’t taken Kharkiv even. You know why I don’t stay awake at night? Because the Europeans don’t stay awake at night. They don’t consider Russia a real threat. If they did, they would throw a lot more money and troops into the game."
Bannon, who said he supports Trump's proposals for the U.S. to gain control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, both in his eyes crucial to U.S. national security, then turned back to Europe.
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He called former British Conservative leader Boris Johnson a "war criminal," adding that he believes too many European leaders consider themselves the Winston Churchill of their day. "The Ukraine war is the central screw-up of Europe over the last couple of years," Bannon told Politico. "You have a million dead or wounded Ukrainians. And we’re going to end up, best case, we’re going to end up exactly where this thing started, as I said three years ago. And it’s because you have Boris Johnson and [French President Emmanuel] Macron, all these fantasists that won’t pay for their own defense. They want to be big shots. They all want to be Winston Churchill with other people’s money and other people’s lives."
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