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I think this president, unfortunately, perhaps either doesn’t understand geopolitics and doesn’t understand the importance of having allies and the importance of our allyship or perhaps there is a reason why, to your point, Joy, that he is so enthralled with Russia,
You mentioned Macron and how he spoke to the fact that Europe knows it needs to get involved more and I don’t know if this pivot is because Donald Trump always called for that, or they now realize they can’t rely on the United States,
co-host Sara Haines said, reacting to the Macron-Trump press conference I just think back to many of our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought these wars to make sure that we were not chummy and didn’t chum up and, you know, as we’re disappearing American history, what else are we disappearing? Are we forgetting who these guys are? And, it is all transactional. It is all transactional,
I think the other thing that maybe Donald Trump needs to realize is, when you depend on the - and I'm going oversimplify this - the bad guy, they’re there for themselves. Allies and friends are not. They actually stick with you in the tough times, so there’s a transactional thing happening right here. I can’t quite predict why Donald Trump is siding with Russia specifically right now,
There's no equivocation of Netanyahu and Hamas, Hamas needs to be destroyed, ... Who are the bad guys?"
Griffin pushed back ... as Hostin insisted Goldberg was asking I look at where we’re putting our energy, I think, well, aren’t these - where, who are the bad guys now?"
The discussion prompted Goldberg to say Hamas is the bad guy, but what about Russia?"
[Israeli President Benjamin] Netanyahu does have an international criminal court warrant against him."
What does he owe Putin? Maybe he owes something to Putin,
President Trump is trying to make something happen here, not just go back to talking points that haven’t worked in the past,
I wouldn’t put it in terms of sucking up to Putin,
Those resolutions have failed to stop the war,
This is a moment of truth, a historic moment,
said Mariana Betsa, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister There is a position on this matter that was expressed by Russian Foreign Minister [Sergei] Lavrov. I have nothing to add to this and nothing to comment on."
We must have an agreement with Ukraine on critical minerals and rare earths and various other things as security. And I think that that's happening. I think we've made a lot of progress,
Mr. Trump said during a joint news conference at the White House on Monday with visiting French President Emmanuel Macron I think this discussion (a potential mineral deal) is a very important one,
We'll have to figure it out, and that's where it's going. That said, I'm not really joking."
Amidst all the tensions, we must remember that the trans-Atlantic alliance is unshakable and not just founded upon common defense and economic ties, but shared values and history The current moment should be an occasion for the US and Europe to build back closer, not grow apart."
Joe Coniglio, the director of antitrust and innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, wrote on X Trump's plan to capture Greenland, not even ruling out military options, is the Putin, Xi playbook. R.I.P. US President as 'leader of the free world.' We can laugh, or cry. But the need for a European army doesn't seem so stupid now!"
Guy Verhofstadt, the former prime minister of Belgium, wrote on X Just think about this: The United States is siding with Russia. In the single greatest attack on freedom, democracy, and sovereignty in Europe since WW II, the United States of America is opposing freedom/democracy, and is actually siding with the invader/dictator. Shameful."
Joe Walsh, a former congressman and radio host, wrote on X
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