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Trump “broke with all the foreign policy that had existed since World War II” and “the US seem to have decided to favor the Russian Federation and its allies over the EU.”
The President of the Republic accused Donald Trump on Thursday to favor Russia over the European Union in Ukraine and to attack the sovereignty of his partners and allies.
In a speech at the National Palace of Ajuda, at a dinner offered to French President Emmanuel Macron, under his, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that Trump “broke with the guidance of his predecessor [Joe Biden] and with all foreign policy since World War II ”.
“, Allied in Nato and Ukraine” and, consequently, the King of the United Kingdom, another traditional ally. “He questioned the administration of Denmark, another ally in NATO and Ukraine, Granelândia. He stated the peace goal as soon as possible in Ukraine, based on the preferential understanding with the Russian Federation and without European intervention, ”he said.
The Portuguese head of state then addressed the posture of Donald Trump with regard to, considering that has “mixed with the Ukrainian President, stating Russian conditions for agreementwith that of the Ukrainian President, the future non -adherence to the NATO, even in question the internationally fixed borders. ”
Regarding the European Union (EU), Marcelo stressed that, in addition to Donald Trump to participate in peace negotiations for Ukraine, he also nodded with the “American divestment in existing support” to the continent and “in support for the [sua] security after the war ”.
Marcelo also criticized the statements of the Vice President of the United States, Jd Vance, at the Munich Security Conference, claiming that he has commented on “the internal political situation of the Union states and intervened in the middle of the electoral process in one of these states”, referring to Germany.
“These are facts. Before them, just don’t see who doesn’t want to see it ”, He said, before adding that the United States and its current rulers “have an internal electoral base to want to radically change the position of the previous political power.”
“But they do not necessarily have international legal legitimacy to attack the sovereignty of partners, allies and friends, to intervene in their territorial integrity, to prefer to make the so -called peace with the Russian Federation and its allies, without the EU, and even to reduce the role of Ukraine to maximum subjection and minimal sovereignty,” he said.
In a word, Marcelo continued, “the United States of America seem to have decided to favor the Russian Federation and its allies, in the existing situation in Ukraine, to the detriment of the EU.”
Remember that this Tuesday, in reference to the new White House policy, which will choose who may or may not ask the US President.
“Not knowing what the dictatorship is, the risk of dictatorship is not understood and the risk of sliding ramps from democracies to dictatorships is not understood. And yet today, just open televisions – I don’t talk about social networks anymore – to watch in democratic countries of the strongest to what is sliding from democracy by dictatorship, ”he said.
