{"id":29411,"date":"2025-03-02T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T11:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/trumps-clash-with-zelensky-took-my-breath-away\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T11:30:37","slug":"trumps-clash-with-zelensky-took-my-breath-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/trumps-clash-with-zelensky-took-my-breath-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#039;s clash with Zelensky &#039;took my breath away&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5404542.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>&#8220;Diplomacy fails when negotiating partners are humiliated in front of the world,&#8221; Steinmeier told German Press Agency (dpa) on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The scene at the White House yesterday took my breath away. I would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States,&#8221; Steinmeier said, eschewing his usual diplomatic subtleties.<\/p>\n<p>Steinmeier also said that &#8220;We must prevent Ukraine from having to accept subjugation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump on Friday accused Zelensky of recklessly endangering global security by refusing to negotiate a peace deal with Russia, warning that he was &#8220;gambling with World War Three&#8221; and the lives of millions.<\/p>\n<p>He dismissed Ukraine&#8217;s position in the war started by Russia, arguing that Zelensky did not &#8220;have the cards&#8221; to dictate how Washington should engage with Moscow. He also described Zelensky as &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; and ungrateful.<\/p>\n<p>Trump insisted that Russian President Vladimir Putin was willing to negotiate and issued an ultimatum to Zelensky: either Ukraine made a deal, or the US would withdraw its critical military support, leaving Ukraine to &#8220;fight it out&#8221; on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky, visibly frustrated, countered that &#8220;there would be no compromises with a killer on our territory&#8221; and accused Trump of jeopardizing both Ukrainian and US security with his approach to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Steinmeier said Germany &#8220;urgently needs a strong government&#8221; in place to deal with the unfolding crisis. Germany held federal elections a week ago in which the mainstream conservative bloc came out on top, with Friedrich Merz likely the next chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/229144\/Trump-s-clash-with-Zelensky-took-my-breath-away\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Diplomacy fails when negotiating partners are humiliated in front of the world,&#8221; Steinmeier told German Press Agency (dpa) on Saturday. &#8220;The scene at the White House yesterday took my breath away. I would never have believed that we would ever have to defend Ukraine from the United States,&#8221; Steinmeier said, eschewing his usual diplomatic subtleties. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}