A meeting between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president Wolodymyr Selenskyj On Friday in Washington in the Oval Office, in front of a global audience, a loud argument. An embarrassing spectacle that underlines the gap between the United States and its former European ally.
The meeting should lead to an economic agreement that should give the United States access to the occurrence of rare -earth metals in the country broken by the war. Zelensky also hoped to receive security guarantees from Washington. The Trump government is driving its efforts to reconcile with Russia and takes on negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.
“They play with the Third World War”
During a question and answer round with reporters, Trump and Vice President JD Vance Zelensky interrupted, for whom English is a recently learned and sometimes unpleasant language. They became angry and insulted him.
“You are not really in a good position at the moment. They played with the Third World War, ”Trump Telensky shouted and cut off the Ukrainian head of state in the middle of a chaotic change of words.
The dispute started when Zelensky tried on a comment to react from Vance, which, however, quickly withdrew the floor. ‘I find it disrespectful that they come to the Oval Office and try to negotiate this in front of the American people,’ interrupted Vance before making a number of allegations. Those who are popular with Maga critics of Ukraine. The fact that Selenskyj had “promoted” to Joe Biden last year by visiting a factory in Pennsylvania and that Ukraine would inevitably convene soldiers.
Ukraine, in which war law prevails, begins. Many of the soldiers who serve in the Ukrainian military were collected. Which has been a common practice in the past when a country is in the war to defend itself.
Sinkling back and forth between Trump and Selenskyj
The efforts of the White House to force Ukraine to publish resources in billions in billions had been the trigger for a bitter back and forth between Trump and Selenskyj in the past few weeks.
Trump claimed that Ukraine owe the United States “$ 500 billion”, as this was the amount that Washington Kiev made available to military aid. The actual amount of the help achieved is more $ 115 billion.
“Have you ever thanked you?” Vance started at today’s meeting in the White House of Zelensky. The obviously trouble keeping his version when the two American statesmen carried out their attack in a double pack.
The original draft of the raw material agreement would have obliged Kiev to pay income from raw materials to an account controlled by the USA. Until an amount of $ 500 billion. Kiev should also have been obliged to “pay an amount in the amount of the double amount that the United States made available to Ukraine” in the future.
In the agreement that was to be signed on Friday, these claims were left out. Instead, the final design expresses general good will. And offers vague promises of revenue from resources. Both sides can get away with the right to success. The agreement does not contain any specific security guarantees for Ukraine.
United States relationships with Ukraine
Trump’s focus on negotiating concessions towards Ukraine underlines the hard realities that it brings to get meaningful peace talks on the way. A delegation from the US State Department is currently meeting with Russian counterparts in Istanbul to discuss a number of questions in connection with the normalization of relationships between the two countries. However, Russia has not yet agreed to talk about the war in Ukraine.
Trump has primarily focused on Ukraine’s relationships in order to demonstrate progress in the direction of an armistice. Something he had promised to reach within “24 hours”.
In view of the anger and annoyance that was expressed on Friday, however, there is little hope of soon productive peace talks.
“You talked too much,” said Trump to Selenskyj. He later indicated that Ukraine would have no choice but to agree to any ceasefire agreement that Washington could negotiate. He said: “Either you close an agreement or we are out.”
Later Selensky left the White House without signing the agreement, whereupon Trump on Truth Social posted the following: “He did not respect the United States of America in its esteemed Oval Office. He can come back if he is ready for peace. “
Trump on “Truth Social”:
“Today we had a very important meeting in the White House. We have learned a lot that could never be understood without conversations as so much pressure and shelling. It is astonishing what emotions come to light. And I came to the conclusion that President Zelenskyy is not ready for peace when America is involved. Because he believes that our participation gives him a great advantage in the negotiations. I don’t want an advantage, I want peace. He did not respect the United States of America in its esteemed Oval Office. He can come back if he is ready for peace. “
Despite the scandal, Selenskyj thanked for the meeting in the White House: