President Trump talked to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week on the phone, the White House wanted to clarify something: Ukrainian leader was grateful to the American president. Much obliged.
Expression Four times about the call, Mr. Zelensky thanked the President for his efforts to negotiate the conditions of cease -fire with Russia. Later, Mr. Zelensky said that he was “grateful için for Mr. Trump’s leadership.
The statement revealed a pattern in shaping the foreign policy agenda of the Trump administration: When it comes to diplomacy, Mr. Trump wants the American allies to be shown or clearly showing personal gratitude.
Michael Froman, President of the Foreign Relations Council, said that Mr. Trump has shown that the diplomacy processing approach to diplomacy, not as the cornerstone of the foreign policy that will pay dividends on the road, but as a favor to the US allies.
“This has been basically pointing to a different concept of order for the last 80 years, which is our interests, even if our allies have to take steps for their defense and do more, but our support for their defense.” “I believe President Trump questioned this.”
The most obvious example of Trump’s insistence on a thank you came during a meeting with Mr. Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Mr. Zelensky in his oval office last month.
He reduced the Ukrainian leader. “You should thank the president for trying to put an end to this conflict,” he said. Mr. Trump ended the meeting to Mr. Zelensky, the last words were: “You are not grateful. And that’s not a good thing.”
Last week’s phone call spoke for the first time since.
Mr. Trump seems to have adopted a softer approach with Russia. Last week, no gratitude was recorded in a phone call between Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin.
Mr. Trump’s desire to thank is a change in US diplomatic relations. It is not unusual for presidents to recognize for their contributions to military and human support; President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had his own disappointment because he brutally pushed more with Mr. Zelensky.
However, any friction between world leaders takes place behind the closed doors with a more limited explanation of a “complete and open debate ..
White House officials defended Mr. Trump’s approach.
“This is called respect, Har said the White House spokesman Harrison Fields.
Fields, “Every US president, especially in their defense of billions of taxpayers to contribute to the dollar to contribute to both allies and competitors should be requested to be made,” he said.
President George W. Bush, also served as the National Security Vice Vice President of the American Enterprise Institute of Foreign and Defense Policy Research Director Kori Schake, Mr. Trump “like a peer to our allies,” he said.
“This signal is definitely in a processing global order, if you are humble in front of the American president, you can get what you want,” he added.
The White House seems to have taken a clue to foreign visitors.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte invoiced his statements with Mr. Trump at the beginning of this month with his “Thank you very much”. He continued to give a loan to Mr. Trump, who has long been scary against the organization for the increasing military expenditures of the alliance, and refused to defend the territory of one of his members from the threat of a hostile acquiring Mr Trump.
The same week, while visiting the White House, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin did not openly say “thank you”. Instead, instead of responding to the President’s complaint that Irish uses a trade imbalance to benefit from the United States, he referred to Mr. Trump’s personal investment in the country.
“I think you have the only president who physically invest in Ireland through Doonbeg, Mr. Martin said, referring to one of his properties. “Just striking,” he added.
Mr. Trump was shot. Orum I love this man, ”he replied.
Even some of Mr. Trump’s cabinet members began to thank.
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio jumped to the social media exchange between Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and Elon Musk, about Starlink, a satellite internet service provided by Mr. Musk’s rocket company SpaceX to Ukraine.
Mr. Sikorski claims that the service was partially paid by the Ministry of Digitalization of the Polish And warned Mr. Musk against threatening Mr. Rubio blamed him to shoot him “It’s just making up something.”
In an article on social media, Mr. Rubio said: “And thank you because Starlink would lose this war a long time before Ukraine, and the Russians would be on the Polish border right now.”
Witold Zembaczynski, another The Polish minister wrote the words of Mr. Rubio, but by supporting Mr. Sikorski.
“Thank you. Not with #standwithukraine war criminal #putin.”
Matt Duss, Deputy General Manager of International Politics Center, said Mr. Trump has been a “demonstration of dominance ında both as a businessman and a politician during his career.
“Foreign policy is approaching the US -led order as a protection racket, D Duss said. “If you want to protect, you should respect the boss and pay the top floor.”
