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Nobody has been tougher on Russia than Donald Trump,
This is not a moment for more talk. It’s time to act. Time to step up and lead, and to unite, around a new plan for a just and enduring peace.”
Unveiling his battle plan for the war-torn country, the PM told a press conference Tariffs are taxes on imports,
And after that is when Russia shifts basically all of its foreign exchange reserves out of the dollar and into the euro and the yuan, the Chinese currency, and gold. So that was the key moment. Putin realizes [about Trump], ‘This guy, he doesn’t have the stomach to do anything, but also he’s so erratic.’ I think that was when the US lost leverage it needs with Russia, though I think it contributed to Putin underestimating the sanctions he would face in 2022
from Biden, when he ordered a full invasion History shows us that when states can’t acquire markets and resources through open trade and finance, that’s when wars break out. They try to conquer them. If you have that mindset, if you say, ‘We don’t feel like we can access these resources unless we physically plant our flag there,’ then that’s not a world that any of us is going to be happy living in.”
In conversation, he warns Geographic chokepoints have never fully lost their relevance,
The record of the first Trump administration on Russia is not particularly strong,
Fishman said, diplomatically, when asked what the US might expect from a president widely held to be in thrall to Vladimir Putin – and speaking before Trump’s spectacular Oval Office argument with Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine and subsequent suspension of US military aid I think he’s doing what anyone else would do.”
Asked if the Russian leader was taking advantage of the pause in US intelligence sharing and military aid to Ukraine, Trump replied It’s remarkable and certainly to my knowledge, at least, unprecedented. We have some of the most seasoned diplomatic leaders, Starmer and Macron, who know Trump and who know precisely how thin-skinned he is,
said Ned Price, a former State Department spokesman in the Biden administration We know Americans love Canadians and Canadians love Americans. This is one person. President Trump has created a total mess. He’s created uncertainty.”
Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, said in an interview The fact that they did this in this setting, in front of reporters and cameras, only underscores the concerns they have about how these false assertions really get at the fabric of the alliance,
There’s a troubling aspect to this: The more the Trump administration and the folks that support them say these ridiculous things about federal judges, the more it puts their families and personal safety and courthouses at risk,
Doug Jones, a former Democratic senator and U.S. attorney from Alabama, said in an interview A President who touts an image of himself as a ‘king’ or a ‘dictator,’ perhaps as his vision of effective leadership, fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution,
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote last week The ongoing, en masse termination of probationary employees across the federal government’s agencies has sown significant chaos.”
Another judge, William Alsup, in the Northern District of California, ruled in a case involving the Trump administration’s firing of probationary federal workers Democrats have struggled a little bit in part because there was so much hitting quickly,
Foreign leaders don’t normally criticize or correct each other on camera,
said Peter Westmacott, who has served as British ambassador to the U.S., France and Turkey Frankly he has had enough,
the official said of Trudeau The Prime Minister spoke quite honestly and was saying the very least that he needed to say in order to deal directly with the level of contempt that has been shown by the president toward him as a person
We don’t get the money back, ... We’re not getting all of ours. Quite a bit of ours was gifted.”
After Trump said in his Oval Office meeting with Starmer three days later ... Starmer told him The business about being a dictator, that Zelensky is a mediocre comedian - I was on the phone, I heard Putin basically say exactly that."
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