“This yields great television,” the American President Trump realized as he was busy on Friday to cow his Ukrainian colleague Zensky Live for the TV cameras. The time that we complained that politics was boring is far behind us. Reasonableness and again and again against the shocking statement, the most flagrant lie, the brutest shockage. Purely because that is better entertainment. The best TV entertainer with the best quotes wins.
The talk shows and news sections were filled on Sunday evening with chats over the beating of Zensky. And the European answer: the “mini-NAVO summit without the US” this weekend in London, where the British and the French names themselves to make a peace plan for Ukraine through a “coalition of the willing people”. “Nice that there were sensible people together again,” said Americanner Twan Huys Bar late (NPO 1).
Talkshowhost Jeroen Pauw had his two months winter vacation on it and presented an extra inserted broadcast of Bar late About this “tipping point in history”. After all, Trump had loud and clear “Europe toeddokie!” called, as EU correspondent Kysia Hekster previously summarized it in the Eight -hour journal (NPO 1). Pauw had collected an excellent table that had to answer two questions: Can Europe without the US? And had Zensky now behaved heroic or stupid?
Actress Victoria Koblenko said that Zensky should have brought a big “fake medal” for Trump and had to give him a golden statue in Kyiv. After all, the US president would be sensitive to flattery. But Russia connoisseur Olaf Koens said about that in talk show Renze on Sunday (RTL 4): “The idea that you are licking someone’s boot so that he does not kick in your face is absurd.” About the admonition of Mark Rutte, NATO secretary-general, that Zelenksy should make up for it with Trump, Koens said: “Rutte actually says: don’t you have to put on such a short skirt.”
Ukraine was poorly represented not only on the peacet tables, but also at the talk show tables. In Bar late Viktoria Koblenko hardly intervened. Her husband, the former footballer Jevgeni Levchenko, was in the other net Renze on Sunday. Every now and then he expressed his anger, Trump called a Mafia boss and a extortioner, but kept himself outside the conversation.
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And can Europe be soldier without the US? Most guests in Bar late,, ” News hour (NPO 2) and Renze on Sunday said not. No matter how annoying and difficult, Zensky and the other European leaders had to try to pick up with Trump again. Two people went against this. According to Olaf Koens, that was old-fashioned transatlantic wish thinking and it was useless to try to “spawn” Trump further. After all, he had been very clear. “The Americans are in the camp of the Russians. They are not interested in the safety of Ukraine. ” So we have to go further without the US, said former top diplomat Robert Serry, who in the afternoon Buitenhof and in the evening in Bar late fed up. He said about Trump: “The leader of the Western world has become the parrot of Putin.” And: “It is now really time to wake up from our peace sleep.”
I am inclined to agree with Robert Serry and Olaf Koens. But that can of course also be because they delivered the tastiest quotes.