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The relationship between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was quite bad before the shouting party in the Oval office.
President Trump had already called him dictator and said that Ukraine began the war, which is a lie.
Now the US-UKRAINE alliance nourished by Joe Biden is in pieces.
The public breakdown also indicates a great crisis that imminent among the European members of NATO and the United States.
There will be many more doubts and questions about the United States commitment to European security outside Ukraine. The biggest thing is if President Trump would maintain the promise that his predecessor Harry Truman made in 1949 to treat an attack against an NATO ally as an attack against the United States.
These concerns are based on what seems to be Trump’s determination to restore a strong relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He has exerted great pressure on Ukraine while offering Putin great concessions, that the Ukrainians would have to do.
The security of Ukraine approaches a second poor, and Europeans also care.
President Zelensky’s refusal to make those concessions has enraged Trump.
It is not just the mineral agreement that refused to sign. The Ukrainians believe that they are in a war for national survival, and that Putin would break any promise to end the war if it is not deterred.
That is why Zelensky repeatedly requested US security guarantees.
The meeting was lit in a game of shouts after an intervention by vice president JD Vance.
There are suspicions now that the public row was, in the words of a diplomatic observer, a planned political assault: forcing Zelensky to make the United States offers or precipitate a crisis that allows them to blame him for what happens next.
If Trump follows the breakdown of conversations with a freezing in military aid, Ukraine will fight. The questions are how effectively and for how long.
The pressure will be redoubled to its European allies to take the slack.
