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As long, turbulent ties between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Voldymi Zelensky were torn apart on Wednesday, the remaining questions between their allies say the fight would make the US a reality It was whether they wanted a mediated peace or potentially help it. .
After firing his angry message on his social media platform, Trump named Zelensky “an election dictator” and “strickenly looks to America spend hundreds of billions of dollars to “take a strong eye to join a war that cannot be won” I blamed him for pointing it out.”
It turned into a one-day provocation series, where Trump amplified in his Wednesday night speech in Miami, where he declared: He has no intention of leaving the country. ”
Both accusations parroted the sarcasmy debate about Moscow’s own ironic war and the Ukrainian president who declared martial law at the start of the Russian invasion.
Trump’s posts were hardly isolated attacks. For years, Trump looked skeptical of Zelensky, questioned his decision, and opened up an investigation of his then-Joe Biden in an episode that became famous during Trump’s first round each. I pushed him against me.
Trump weaving together his criticism of Biden and Zelensky, suggesting that the Ukrainian president was on the “gravy train” during the Biden administration on Wednesday night with US support.
“If you had another year in power,” Trump said Wednesday night, “You would have been in World War II, and that’s not going to happen now.”
However, Trump’s aides have been closely monitoring Zelensky’s official statement recently. His criticism of the United States, particularly for removing Ukraine from talks with Russian authorities in Saudi Arabia this week, is upset.
Their frustration had risen by Wednesday, sources said. But it boiled after Zelensky told reporters in his office in Kiev that Trump lived in a “net of disinformation.”
Trump said that he wanted to deal with an aide who was with him in Florida, which led to his true social post. He delivered diplomatic missiles on his way to a golf club in Miami, expanding his remarks before an audience of hundreds of people at an evening investment meeting in Miami hosted by Saudi Arabia’s Sovereign Wealth Fund. and Russian officials.
“It’s frustrating. There is a strong justification that this brutal war has to stop and that this path has diminished through Zelensky’s official statement,” a second White House official told CNN. He spoke.
But Zelensky’s view believes that Trump’s end is very similar to what Russia is looking for. Already, members of Trump’s administration have ruled out Kyiv’s NATO membership, saying the US military has not helped to ensure Ukraine’s security when the war ends.
For these reasons, he says he can’t help but speak up.
For months, Zelensky had been cautiously sought to avoid a complete burst of his temperament with his new counterpart in Washington. He arranged a meeting ahead of last year’s elections, which aimed to alleviate some of the then-GOP candidates’ skepticism about their involvement in the war.
The men appeared at the start of a discussion at Trump Tower in Manhattan and showed their willingness to get along. Trump said he had a “very good relationship” with the Ukrainian leader, but also enjoyed a “very good relationship” with Moscow’s enemy, Vladimir Putin.
“We hope we have a better relationship,” Zelensky inserted.
“But you know, it takes two to tango,” Trump replied.
At the time, there were very few exchanges registered. Five months later, it appears that Trump is predicting an astounding cleft just as it appears to be sitting in Saudi Arabia with Putin.
Few foreign leaders were immune to Trump’s mood swings. His first term led to the abolition of overseas travel, and calls suddenly ended when Trump ran out, imposing strict new tariffs.
But up until now, Trump’s complaints did not appear to indicate such wholesale changes in American foreign policy towards long-standing European allies and the Kremlin.
Many of Trump’s allies said Zelensky should have seen Trump’s rage come.
“The idea that Zelensky is trying to change the president’s mind by making the president worse in public media is a vicious way for everyone who knows the president to deal with this administration. It would be,” Vance told the Daily Mail.
In explaining Trump’s impressive official statement, White House officials insisted on ending his three-year conflict in Ukraine, his main, actually only objective.
They say that claiming a reconciliation to war has been a long delay after shattering years of conflict. Trump himself has appeared almost to agnostics in the precise outline of the reconciliation that would end the war. “I don’t really care much except to stop millions of people being killed and being killed,” he said.
However, it is not clear how he will achieve that goal, denounce Zelensky and align himself with the points of the Russian story.
Trump’s Republican allies in Washington suggested on Wednesday that the president may have grand plans in mind.
“What I support is peaceful outcomes and Ukraine,” Senate majority leader John Toon was asked if he had any concerns about the president’s rhetoric about Ukraine. I said that sometimes. Thune said he believes Trump and his team are working to achieve peace and believes “Now you have to give them some space.”
Sen. Kevin Kramer, a North Dakota Republican, said Trump is “always positioned for something,” and suspects Trump is “positioned for negotiations” with Putin through his comments about Zelensky. He added.
Still, if the end of the conflict negotiations is successful, Trump will demand buy-in from Zelensky. And if he is serious about keeping American troops out of conflict, he will need European allies to intervene in his peacekeeping forces.
Some Trump’s advisors and allies have been making a fuss about strategy. Trump’s loyalty, who recently spoke with the Florida president, said that one of the reasons behind Trump’s intensity in Ukraine is to scare Europe and bring more excitement to protect Ukraine.
“Look, there’s a way to get mad,” the person said. It pointed to reports that Denmark had pledged to boost spending on arms.
Advisor Trump reiterated his feelings Wednesday, telling CNN:
Written in X, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who maintained close ties with Trump during his first term, rebutted most of Trump’s claims, but his previous counterparts Part said he was driving at a bigger point.
“When will Europeans be scandalized about Donald Trump and start helping him to end this war?” Johnson wrote. “Of course, Ukraine didn’t start a war. You might say that America attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor. Of course, countries that are undergoing violent invasion should not hold elections. 1935 Until 1945, there were no general elections in the UK. Of course, Zelensky’s rating is not 4%. They are actually roughly the same as Trump’s.”
“Trump’s statement is not intended to be historically accurate, but is intended to shock Europeans with their actions,” he continued.
In fact, the rush to arrange a meeting of European leaders in Paris hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that Trump’s words were taken very seriously.
“Russia poses an existential threat to Europeans,” Macron said in an interview with French regional newspapers. “Don’t think that things that are unthinkable, including the worst, won’t happen.”
At the same time, Macron has not completely given up on Trump. He will be in Washington for a meeting next week, as British Prime Minister Kiel Starmer said he would be willing to send troops to act as Ukrainian peacekeepers.
Both men spoke with Zelensky on Wednesday following Trump’s humiliation.
“The Prime Minister has expressed his support for President Zelensky as a democratically elected leader in Ukraine, and is completely halting elections during the war, as Britain did during World War II. “I said it was reasonable,” Dunning Street said.
Trump is increasingly casting himself into the role of peace supervision, regardless of cost.
“We have successfully negotiated the end of the war with Russia. We said on Wednesday night everything we acknowledge that only Trump can do.
“In the Trump administration, we’ll be able to do that. I think Putin has admitted that.”
