Trump’s supporters count themselves as conservatives, but what he’s doing is radical |
What a week. Last Friday night Donald Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance, ambushed the embattled Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy in the Oval Office and chucked him out of the White House.
On Monday they froze military aid to Ukraine and on Tuesday they stopped supplying intelligence that helps Ukraine defend itself from Russian bombardments. On Wednesday, Trump warned “the people of Gaza” that if they continued to hold hostages, “you are DEAD!”
In Europe, still blinking at the rupture in the transatlantic relationship, leaders held an emergency summit and resolved to rearm as quickly as they could. The bloc will now change its strict rules on government borrowing to enable faster rearmament.
French president Emmanuel Macron, in a televised address to his country, warned that Russian aggression “knows no borders”, will not stop at Ukraine and is a direct threat to France and Europe. He offered to extend the protection of France’s nuclear arsenal to other European countries, and said he would convene a meeting of European military chiefs who are willing to send peacekeepers to Ukraine next week.
In Moscow this was reported as “Macron tells Europe to prepare for war with Russia”.
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