“No, frankly, we paid,” Macron said. He said, like the United States, there are grants, loans and loan guarantees. “We provide real money, we need to be clear,” he said.
Mr. Trump smiled, skeptical, and waved his hand as if saying he didn’t buy it.
Mr. Trump, who failed to end the war within 24 hours or before the inauguration (as he promised to do on the campaign), said the talks he started with Mr. Putin could be within weeks End the war if we are smart. “If we are not smart, it will keep moving forward and we will lose young, beautiful people.” ”
The president stressed that he asked Ukraine to sign hundreds of billions of dollars in mineral rights to repay U.S. military aid, which Mr. Zelensky has resisted. However, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that on the “one-code line,” we are “very close to” deals with Ukrainian negotiators, Mr. Trump said Mr. Zelensky could be in Washington Sign in Washington for a week or next.
Mr. Trump’s power to restore power was twitching in relations with European allies as he threatened to impose tariffs on his consumer goods, demanding that they increase military spending even beyond their previous targets and violated Ukraine. A speech in Munich by Vice President JD Vance, who suggested that the biggest security threat to European countries is not Russia or China, but their own political and cultural policies.
Mr Macron organized two meetings of European leaders and developed a plan to deal with the United States, which seemed to be moving from traditional allies to Russia. But he then rushed to Washington to hold a hasty meeting with Mr. Trump to negotiate on the fate of Ukraine to strengthen the president.
