When Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski closed the phone with President Donald Trump on the Day of Independence, his top adviser could not hold back his joy.
“Wow, this was the best phone call we’ve ever had with him,” said his person, Andriy Yermak, after Zelenski closed the phone.
The phone call seemed so positive on the side of Ukraine that it surprised Zelenski’s staff. “Our morale has grown, but it is too early to celebrate,” a Kiev official, who wishes to keep his anonymity, said.
The Ukrainians know better than anyone, how easily things can change when you have to do with President Trump.
Who forgets the Zelenski and Trump quarrel at the Oval Office that resulted in the removal of the Ukrainian president from the White House.
The July 4th phone call marked a remarkable shift, which led to Trump’s decision to offer weapons of about $ 10 billion in Europe to buy it on behalf of Ukraine.
The role of Ukrainian allies
Trump’s turn is largely due to European leaders and Republican senators. All of them gave Zelenski strategic tips on how to make the US president like him. Among other things, he advised him to flatter him.
Zelenski was lucky enough to have Trump’s growing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The glass for Trump was out on July 3. After the Trump phone call -which on the same day, Russia launched the largest attack of unmanned aircraft in Ukraine during the war.
Donald Trump publicly accused Putin of saying “stupidity” during their telephone communication.
Trump’s shift leaves the US cannula open for Ukraine in a very critical phase of the war, as Russia intensifies its attacks.
The allies of the US president argue that he has not abandoned his primary goal, which is none other than the end of the war as soon as possible.
Trump’s attitude allows him to keep a distance from Ukraine’s support, while keeping it strong enough to push Russia towards a peace agreement.
“President Trump realizes that Putin is lying to him,” Zelenski told Newsmax this week.
But this new Zelensky -Trump relationship went through a thousand waves.
A coordinated effort to restore the Zelensky -Trump relationship began in terms of Europeans, before the Ukrainian president departed from Washington on February night.
European leaders helped Zelenski to apologize to Trump. At the same time, in their talks with the US president, he was explained that Putin is hurting US interests.
The role of macron
But the one who played perhaps the most important role in Trump’s change of attitude was French President Emmanuel Macron.
Macron and Trump, moreover, talk almost daily on the phone.
Another person who played an important role was the British Prime Minister, Kir Starmer.
Other political figures include German Chancellor Mertz, Finnish President Stubb and NATO chief Mark Rutte.
At the urging of Macron and Starmer, Zelenski and Trump, they spoke to the Vatican in April, at the funeral of Pope Francis. This discussion was the first example of writing that something had begun to change.
The pivotal meeting
Their next meeting took place at the end of June at the NATO summit in the Netherlands, where Zelenski played his last paper. To propose the continuation of weapons supply from the US if the European allies paid the bill, according to officials who spoke in the Washington Post.
One official described the meeting in The Hague as “decisive”. Another, said that Zelenski was wearing a jacket and shirt that was liked by a suit – Zelenski has said he would wear a suit as the war is over.
NATO officials made a coordinated effort to offer Trump a diplomatic victory, promising a giant increase in European military spending, a longing for the US president.
The bet yielded. Both Trump and Zelenski left their meeting in The Hague with a sense of satisfaction.
Trump’s tone change appeared to a BBC Ukrainian journalist during a press conference at the NATO Summit. When asked if he would sell Patriot air defense systems in Ukraine, the US president expressed his sympathy for living in Poland with her children while her husband was fighting on the Ukraine front.
In the July 4th phone call with Zelenski, Trump told him that Ukraine could not only win the war with defense and must be attacked, according to a Ukrainian official. Asked by Trump if he could bomb Moscow or St. Petersburg, Zelenski replied that “if we have the right weapons, we can do it.”
It is noted that the Financial Times broadcast first data from the phone conversation.
This week, Trump said of Moscow’s possible bombing that “he would not supply Ukraine weapons of larger range that would allow her to hit the Russian capital.”
Now, Trump has set 50 days in Russia for a peace deal, before imposing 100% duties on Russian exports.
US weapons could reach Ukraine much faster than 50 days, according to a second Ukrainian official.
However, Trump has changed so many times decisions to say with confidence that this is a change of attitude.
Source :Skai
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