President Donald Trump hosted new Polish President Karol Nawrocki on Wednesday at the White House with a military flyover and an offer to send more US troops to the eastern European ally.

Talks were expected to focus on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, where Trump's peacemaking efforts have been struggling to get traction.

Trump called it a "stupid war" and said he thought ending it would have been "much easier" for him.

"It's going to get done," he vowed to reporters in the Oval Office, with Nawrocki at his side.

Nawrocki, a nationalist historian and fervent Trump supporter, was in Washington for his first foreign visit as president after having visited the US leader to seek his backing during the Polish election campaign.

Trump gave him a warm welcome, including an offer to boost

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