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(NewsNation) — President Donald Trump is meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron connected Monday amid uncertainty regarding the aboriginal of longstanding alliances betwixt the United States and European countries.
Trump campaigned connected rapidly ending the warfare successful Ukraine and has shifted the overseas argumentation scenery by speaking straight with Russian President Vladimir Putin successful defiance of planetary efforts to frost Putin out.
Trump is conducting the negotiations without input from European enactment oregon Ukrainian officials and acceptable up a gathering with Russian officials successful Saudi Arabia. He has besides repeatedly attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling the elected person a dictator.
Trump has falsely said Ukraine started the war, erstwhile it was Russia that invaded the state successful February of 2022.
Trump has made unprecedented demands connected different European countries, including a tendency to instrumentality implicit Greenland, which is presently nether the power of Denmark, and demanding fractional of Ukraine's uncommon world minerals successful speech for American enactment successful the warfare and arsenic backmost wage for erstwhile assistance.
He has besides made demands successful different areas of the world, suggesting the U.S. instrumentality implicit Canada, Gaza and the Panama Canal.
There are fears those desires could displacement the geopolitical scenery and bring an extremity to the country's relation arsenic a starring unit for planetary stableness and arsenic an economical and motivation leader.
“The lone decision you tin gully is that 80 years of argumentation successful lasting up against aggressors has conscionable been blown up without immoderate benignant of treatment oregon reflection,” said Ian Kelly, a U.S. ambassador to Georgia during the Obama and archetypal Trump administrations and present a prof astatine Northwestern University.
Macron is expected to archer Trump that the U.S. and Europe should not amusement weakness to Russia and that however the negotiations are handled could interaction aboriginal U.S. relations with China.
However, Trump has agelong shown a level of respect and enactment for Putin that separates him from different Western leaders. He has often repeated Russian talking points successful his run rallies and statements arsenic president.
That has led to fears the European-U.S. confederation could beryllium successful jeopardy and sparked concerns of cracks successful NATO with planetary consequences. European leaders gathering with Trump anticipation to enactment up accepted ties and transportation Trump to see them successful negotiations regarding Ukraine.
Another taxable apt to beryllium addressed is Trump's program for "reciprocal tariffs" connected goods, which his medication is expected to find connected a country-by-country basis.
On Thursday, Trump is set to meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
