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On Monday, Donald Trump’s administration suspended all US navy support to Ukraine, in an try and stress Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to conform to a ceasefire deal on US phrases. It comes after an explosive assembly between the leaders within the Oval Workplace on Friday.
“Donald Trump is such a singular political pressure proper now that he’s managing to repaint many points of the argument over Ukraine in American political life,” Andrew Roth, the Guardian’s international affairs correspondent, tells Michael Safi.
“He’s actually turned numerous information about this battle on their head, and we will see that in a short time, he’s been making an attempt to alter the narrative by way of how the battle began, what function Zelenskyy performs within the battle, and what function Putin performs there.
“And he’s twisted it right into a method the place he can mainly say that we’ve overvalued Zelenskyy to make him a tricky man, and now we’re going to place him again in his place, and that is one of the best ways to get to peace, by reducing the Ukrainians off from navy tools.”
Roth explains what this suspension means for the Ukrainian navy on the bottom, the way forward for US international coverage, and the safety of Europe.
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