While the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was sitting next to him, looking in silence, President Trump compared Russia and Ukraine to two fighting children who had to develop their differences for a while before anyone could intervene.
“Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy,” Trump said at a press conference on Oval Office on Thursday. “They hate each other, and they fight in a park, and you try to separate them. They don’t want to be withdrawn. Sometimes you better let them fight for a while and separate them. ”
“And I gave this analogy to Putin yesterday,” added Trump. “I said: ‘President, maybe you have to continue to fight and suffer a lot, because both sides suffer, before separating them, before being able to separate.'”
Mr. Merz, who became the German chancellor last month, came to Washington in the hope of persuading Trump to play a more active role in the defense of Ukraine by bringing an unequaled American power to the task of forcing Russia to end his invasion of his smallest neighbor. But he obtained a very different answer. Trump essentially launched his hands, saying that there was nothing that the United States could do to end the war of Russia-Ukraine.
Trump has repeatedly promised during the presidential campaign that he could make peace between the nations at war within 24 hours, but he now says that he was sarcastic.
Four months after his second term, Trump talks about the war as if he was a passerby. When a journalist asked him at the press conference on Thursday if he was going to put more sanctions to Russia, as he had already threatened, Trump equipped. He suggested that he would be when the time had happened to stack more pressure, but it was not yet.
