President Trump’s Republican allies are putting pressure on him not to entangle the U.S. militarily in Ukraine after he signaled an openness to helping craft security guarantees for the embattled nation in its war against Russian aggression.

Trump and the White House on Tuesday insisted the U.S. would not put boots on the ground in Ukraine but floated the idea of providing air support using U.S. pilots and warplanes.

That came after a meeting on Monday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and seven other European leaders, during which they discussed security guarantees for Kyiv in lieu of allowing it into NATO, a red line for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

While the summit resulted in few specifics about what those security guarantees would entail, at one point a reporter asked Trump if the U.S. would send troops to Ukraine. Trump didn’t answer directly but said the U.S. would “help them out.”

That, combined with special envoy Steve Witkoff saying the U.S. could participate in “Article 5-like protections” for Ukraine, has set off alarm bells for some of Trump’s “America First” supporters.

Top allies are warning him not to go too far, citing a key MAGA tenet of not getting involved in any lengthy conflicts or “forever wars.”........

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