Trump agreements mean a quick rhythm with few concerns about risks

On Wednesday, in a series of high -risk diplomatic episodes worldwide, Trump’s free wheel attitude towards foreign policy was exhibited full, playing in real time through publications in their social account of truth.

For his followers, it was the “art of the agreement” of the president in action, using each negotiation and tactical tool at his disposal.

For critics, it was another day of interruption by itself, with little apparent concern about the risks involved or the possible consequences.

On Wednesday he began with the news that the United States is negotiating directly with Hamas leaders for the release of US hostages who are still in Gaza. Contacting a group designated a foreign terrorist organization for the United States since 1997 represents a dramatic change of American policy decades.

The Biden administration was based on intermediaries during its attempts to end the Gaza War. And Trump previously condemned Hamas for committing “atrocities against humanity” during his attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel, calling its “vicious and violent” members.

But for Trump, apparently, the old play book was not working, and was willing to take risks to seem hypocritical, to ignore the US allies, and sit with a terrorist group designated to advance their target goals.

The Office of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, responded with a brief statement, saying only that he had “expressed his position” in the conversations.

At the end of the day, after gathering at the Oval office with some US hostages published above, Trump The heat rose again In the group. He arrived in Truth Social to call him “sick and twisted” and issued a “last warning” that if the members did not free all the hostages, there would be “hell to pay.”

“I am sending Israel everything you need to finish the job,” he wrote, “not a single Hamas member will be safe if you don’t do what I say.”

Laura Blumenfeld, former Israeli-Palestinian policy advisor of the United States Department of State, told the BBC that Trump’s message to Hamas was an ultimatum.

“However, the agreement with these ultimatums is that you have to comply,” he said, “and we saw last month when Trump said you have a midday deadline on Saturday, you release the hostages, or otherwise, there was no or not or not.

“And Hamas called them. They said, President Trump, his threats make no sense.”

The press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, had previously placed the dramatic changes of the president in the context of Trump’s broader foreign policy, telling journalists that “dialogue and talking to people around the world” is part of his “effort in good faith to do the right thing for the US people.”

The White House has used a logic similar to Trump’s recent efforts to defrost US relations with Moscow, including sending high -level administration officials to Saudi Arabia to meet directly with a Russian delegation.

That dramatic approximately the diplomatic face accompanied the strong criticisms of Ukraine and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, which culminated in the heated meeting on Friday at the Oval office. This week he followed an announcement saying that the United States had suspended arms shipments, and another on Wednesday said the exchange of intelligence with the nation devastated by the war was arrested.

Trump’s actions left the United States Europeans shaken, and the consequences of that may not be completely appreciated. But its efforts to exploit the pressure point of Ukraine – Help and information retention – It seems to have produced the planned result.

Zelensky sent a conciliatory letter to Trump on Tuesday proposing a high limited fire, and the United States officials and Ukraine resumed the conversations on Wednesday on a mineral agreement to compensate for the United States for help costs.

If Trump’s goal is to encourage Ukraine and Russia to enter peace conversations, he has indeed led Zelensky to the heel, even when it is not clear what concessions is asking the Russian president Vladimir Putin to do during those negotiations.

Sometimes, even with Trump, pressure points go in the other address.

A month ago, he announced new radical rates in Canada and Mexico, just to get away from them at the last moment. This week allowed those taxes of 25% to enter into force, at least for a day.

After two days of acute decreases in the US stock market Cars imported from Canada and Mexico.

American automobile manufacturers warned that new tariffs could devastate the industry, leading to plant closures in a matter of weeks.

Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday, and offered his own reading, through Truth Social, in what he said it was a call “something friendly”, even when he accused Canada’s “governor” of using the commercial problem to “remain in power.”

While Zelensky quickly retreated under the pressure of the White House and Hamas conversations are just beginning, Trudeau and the Canadians, on the other hand, seem to be in a longer fight.

The play book that breaks the Trump convention may be shaking things this week, but it is far from being clear if they will deliver the type of victories he wants.

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