Hague – On board the Air Force One on the Atlantic on Tuesday, President Trump directed his attention for a brief moment of the diplomatic victory that he had negotiated between Israel and will go to one that has been much more difficult to achieve.
“I would like to see an agreement with Russia,” Trump told journalists before reaching the Netherlands for a NATO summit and refer to his private conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the war in Ukraine. “Vladimir called me. He said: 'Can I help you with Iran?' I said, no, I don't need help with Iran.
“I hope we are going to make an agreement with Russia,” Trump added. “It's a shame.”
It was a rare expression of frustration of Trump with Putin at a critical moment in the Moscow War against Ukraine, and while Ukrainian leaders and their allies in Europe desperately seek Trump guarantees that US assistance for kyiv will continue.
The president will be at the Summit in The Hague until Wednesday, where he is expected to meet with leaders from all over Europe, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Now we go to NATO, we will have a new set of problems,” Trump said about meetings. “We will solve a new set of problems.”
The European bloc expects to take advantage of Trump's retirement about the result of the Israel War with Iran, which saw its castrated nuclear program and much of its military leadership and eliminated aerial defenses, in a diplomatic success for themselves, European officials said to Times. After ordering the United States precision attacks against three of Iran's main nuclear facilities during the weekend to help the Israeli campaign, Trump announced a high fire in the conflict on Monday that has been maintained tentatively.
“The message will be that deterrence works,” said a European official. The hope, the official added, is that Trump will feel emboldened to adopt a more aggressive position towards Russia after being successful in his strategic commitment in the Middle East.
In The Hague, the discussions among NATO and European officials have focused on the Russian calendar to reconstitute their land army, with the most aggressive analyzes they estimate that Moscow could be in a position to launch another large -scale attempt to take charge of Ukraine, or a NATO Member State, by 2027.
In a text message sent to Trump, the screenshots of which he posted on social networks, NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte, advanced the president's “decisive action” to bomb Iran, a decision that called “truly extraordinary.”
“Donald, you have taken us to a very, very important moment for the United States and Europe, and the world,” Routte wrote. “You will achieve something that no US president in decades could be done.”
Rutte was referring to a new commitment from the members of the Alliance to spend 5% of his Gross Domestic Product in Defense, a significant increase that has been a priority for Trump since his first mandate in office.
The matter is not completely established, with Spain resisting the new commitment of expenses. “There is a problem with Spain,” Trump told journalists on the plane: “which is very unfair to the rest of the people.”
But the new financing, the “big” money, as Routte said, could help appease a president who has repeatedly expressed skepticism of the NATO alliance.
While talking with journalists, Trump questioned whether article 5 of the NATO Charter, which establishes that an attack against a member is an attack against all, in fact requires that the United States be defended by its allies.
“There are numerous definitions of article 5, [but] I am committed to being his friends, “he added.” I have been friends with many of those leaders and I am committed to helping them. “
Trump has failed so far to persuade Putin to accept a high fire against Ukraine despite applying pressure to both parties, particularly against kyiv, that Trump has incorrectly blamed warfare.
In the Dnipro de Ukranian region on Tuesday, 160 people were injured and 11 were killed in a ballistic missile strike by Moscow, Zelensky wrote on social networks.
“Russia cannot produce ballistic missiles without components from other countries,” Zelensky said. “Russia cannot manufacture hundreds of other types of weapons without the pieces, the team and the experience that this regime upset in Moscow does not possess on its own. That is why it is so important to minimize the schemes that connect to Russia with their accomplices. There must also be a significant strengthening of the sanctions against Russia.”
Assuming a strategy similar to Europeans, Senator Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) said in an interview on Sunday that Congress should act to allow Trump with influence against Putin in the next negotiations.
“How does this affect Russia?” Graham responded in “Meet The Press” of NBC, when asked about the war with Iran. “I have 84 Copatrocinadores for a Russian sanctions bill that is an economic bunker against China, India and Russia for the brutal invasion of Ukraine of Russia.”
“I think Bill is going to approve,” he added. “We are going to give an exemption to the president. It will be a tool in the Trump toolbox to take Putin to the table.”
