Igor Gielow
SAO PAULO, SP (Folhapress) – In a scene never seen in public at the White House Oval Hall, Donald Trump and Volodimir Zelenski hit the course of the Ukraine war, leading the visitor to leave the meeting without the forecast press conference.
“He can come back when he is ready for peace,” Truth Social Trump wrote while Zelenski was still at the government’s headquarters, where he was only 2:20 am on Friday (28). According to White House officials leaked to the American press, Trump ordered his colleague to leave.
Live, the American threatened the Ukrainian, saying that the US will “be out” if he does not accept a truce with Vladimir Putin, who invaded his neighbor three years ago.
The meeting was a major disaster for Kiev and threw out the efforts of European leaders to bring presidents closer, nine days after Trump called Zelenski a dictator. The Republican, in turn, corroborated his position of alignment to Putin’s view of the conflict.
Zelenski arrived with blood in his eyes at the beginning of the meeting, which was opened to the press. “You said it’s up to war. I think it’s very important to say these words to Putin at the beginning, because he’s a killer and a terrorist, ”Zelenski said in his introduction.
“I am in favor of Ukraine and Russia,” said a frightened Trump, who later went to the attack, saying that Zelenski was “playing with the third World War” when seeking to oppose the US and the West to Russia. “What you are saying is disrespectful to this country,” he said, with finger in laugh.
The temperature went up further with Trump’s deputy intervention, Jd Vance, who charged the visitor, “Have you ever said thanks?” “I find it disrespectful to come here at the Oval Hall and say these things in front of the American media,” he added. The Ukrainian ambassador in the US, Oksana Markarova, sank her head between her hands in the audience.
“Your country is in trouble. You are not winning, ”he said. “We gave you $ 350 billion, if you didn’t have our military material, you would have lost in two weeks. You have to show gratitude, ”said the US president, charging a ceasefire and exaggerating the US support for Kiev in three times.
Trump said “I have empowered you to be a bully, but you don’t think it may be a bully without the US.” “Your people are very brave, but you will either make a deal or we are out. And if we are out, you will lose, ”he said.
“You are not in a position to dictate how we will feel,” said the American, replacing Zelenski’s admonition about the outcome of American disagreement. “You have no cards now, you are playing with the life of millions, with the third World War,” he said.
By closing the meeting to journalists, including a Russian agency reporter Tass who was expelled for not being accredited to be there, Trump still tripled, “This will give good television, huh?”
Later, Zelenski went to X “thank Trump, Congress and the American people.” “Ukraine needs just and lasting peace, and we are working exactly in it,” he wrote. Already Trump said hours after Zelenski “did not look like a guy who wants peace” to his country.
“The meeting did not go well, he bet too loud and lost. The US does not want to play any game, we want peace, not ten years of war. If he wants to fight, to fight, but he’ll have to make peace. And to have dialogue again, he has to say he wants peace, and he didn’t look like a guy who wants peace, ”Trump told the press. He refused to answer a question about whether the US would cut military aid to Ukraine and said a ceasefire in the war “could happen immediately.”
In Russia, Chancellery spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said it was a “containment miracle” Trump and Vance did not hit Zelenski. Former President Dmitri Medvedev qualified the episode as “a beautiful spanking” in the Ukrainian.
Before the kitchen, the mood was tense, but with moments of relaxation. “Look, he’s all tidy!” Said Trump his counterpart on his fifth visit to the US government headquarters.
Zelenski wore the military -inspired clothes, which aims to lend him an aura of war leader, who adopted since the beginning of the conflict -if the American was being ironic, is uncertain. Then the Royal Right Channel reporter America’s Voice Brian Glenn still stocked the Ukrainian, questioning “when he was going to use a suit,” when the war is over, perhaps a better than his own. “
In the initial speech, Zelenski sought to explain his points. “Putin began this war. He has to pay, ”he said, retorting the previous Trump’s statement that Kiev began the conflict by seeking to join the Western military alliance, NATO, a geopolitical red line for Kremlin.
“We want to know what the US is willing to do,” he said. Trump was evasive, saying that “it is not aligned with Putin, but to the interests of the United States and the good of the world.” He had not been personally with Zelenski since December, when he was still only president.
At the same time, the American signaled to maintain the proximity he wants with the Russian, saying that “Putin wants the agreement” of peace. Then the weather came down for good.
As a backdrop of the meeting is the agreement for the exploration of strategic minerals in Ukraine, which Trump used as a device to press Kiev to talk to his terms. From a dollar dollar shot from the Ukrainian wealth, the text became something vague about partnerships and the background assembly for local reconstruction.
Now it has risen on the roof indefinitely, although members of the Trump team have said it could still be signed.
As it was already clear, the not signed text did not bring American security guarantees to play peace. Trump, however, signaled at the opening of the meeting that would continue “sending weapons to Ukraine.” “I hope I don’t need much,” he said.
The meeting was scheduled after Trump’s geopolitical turmoil when he called Putin and began bilateral negotiations about the Ukraine war and the normalization of the relationship between Russia and the US, reversing the sign of American politics to the crisis.
In these two weeks, Russians and Americans met twice on, Trump called Zelenski a dictator without election and considered him dispensable for distinguishing agreements, and pressures for the mineral exploration agreement without embedding Kiev post-Trégu safety security guarantees.
He bit, but also blown up, upon receiving Frenchman Emmanuel Macron and British Keir Stmerer, slightly moderating his rhetoric -but maintaining the essential points, and still seeking advantages of access to strategic minerals for the high -tech industry such as rare lands.
Zelenski was trapped, and received from European partners promises of a substantial elevation of help and offering a peace force in case of ceasefire. It is Trump’s desire ongoing: the American wants to get rid of Europe.
The problem is that Putin does not accept the presence of NATO countries in Ukraine, in fact his central “Casus Belli” in 2022. In this regard, Trump agrees that Kiev should not be admitted to the club. Regarding help, the thing complicates the details of the numbers.
Using the most accurate tracker of the square, from the Institute for the World Economy of Kiel (Germany), the European Union and countries of the continent gave € 132 billion to Kiev, but the bulk of it is money. Already the US sent € 114 billion, 56% of the volume in military aid.
Europeans simply have no war industry capable of supplying all the need for Ukraine if the war continues, but can do so in a truce scenario. They could, of course, buy American products, but these triangulations are legally complex.
Regarding the mineral agreement, Trump gave up on his $ 500 billion costume from Ukrainian underground to compensate for the amount given without promising anything in the future. And ruled out American guarantees. Now, all this is also in suspended with the dome debacle.
