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Politician and diplomat Pascal Milo has commented on the tensions that accompanied the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House.
According to him, this meeting was unprecedented and no such clash is remembered, especially in the White House.
"It was an unprecedented meeting and the world followed it with great attention and a kind of concern, because the US's stance towards an ally surprised everyone. Such meetings, even diplomatic ones, have a kind of preparation. It doesn't go into a final show, and even more so since something unusual happened, that instead of the meeting being behind closed doors, it was held in the presence of the electronic media," Milo told Euronews.
According to him, allowing the media to broadcast these talks of this meeting was intentional on Trump's part, who, since he could not fulfill Zelensky's request for a security guarantee for Ukraine, maneuvered with this tactic to make the Ukrainian president look bad.
"It seems that there was a showmanship intention, from the moment the media was allowed to reflect on the meeting. Directly, here we are dealing with a preparation to exert pressure, and, since Trump did not want to fulfill a request that he had made for a long time and which was the main one for Ukraine - the security guarantee for Ukraine after the agreement, he did not give it. Thus, Trump knew that Zelensky would react and sought to put him in a difficult position in front of the public, and that is what happened. From the point of view of Trump's calculations, what he wanted came out, in his style and views," Milo said.
Milo said that despite Trump's attempts to smear Zelensky, the Ukrainian president emerged from this confrontation with his head held high after being supported by domestic opinion in Ukraine and the European community.
"Zelensky's stance in defense of Ukraine and its national interest, as well as his personal appearance opposing the 'Zeus' of international politics that is Trump, gave him points especially in the domestic opinion of Ukraine, which has been in his favor. But I believe that Europe has found itself in its worst position, because, ultimately, the costs of what is happening in Ukraine are paid by Europe, and it is the one that is worried and endangered by the perspective of developments in Ukraine."
"Such tensions may have occurred at an international conference, but it is quite another to have a face-to-face meeting, and even more so in the White House. Trump is unpredictable, and for this very reason he is followed closely. His statements and positions attract a lot of attention ," he concluded.
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