Donald Trump on Tuesday took aim at the UN and Europe and made a major reversal by stating that Ukraine could win the war against Russia.
The American president criticized the UN for not helping him in his mediation efforts. “The two things I got from the United Nations were a faulty escalator and a faulty teleprompter,” he quipped, referring to technical problems during his arrival.
The escalator malfunction was taken very seriously by the White House, which called for the immediate dismissal of anyone who might have caused the unexpected stoppage of the escalator.
Without irony this time, Donald Trump accused the UN of “funding an attack against Western countries and their borders” through its migrant aid programs.
“It is time to end the failed experiment of open borders (…) Your countries are going to hell!” he declared.
He also attacked European countries for their renewable energy policies, claiming that climate change was the “biggest scam” ever seen.
Brushing rather quickly over the conflicts that are ravaging the planet, the American president declared that recognition of a Palestinian state would constitute a “reward” for the “atrocities” committed by Hamas.
Moreover, it was on Ukraine that Trump caught everyone off guard, after accusing India and China of being “the primary financial supporters” of Russia’s war machine in Ukraine.
Following a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, he said that Kyiv could “regain its territory in its original form and perhaps even go further” against Russia.
“For three and a half years, Russia has been waging a war without clear direction, a war that a True Military Power would have won in less than a week,” the American president wrote on his Truth Social network, adding that Vladimir Putin’s country “looked very much like a paper tiger.”
He also argued that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft violating their airspace, after three incursions by Russian drones or fighter jets into Alliance territory in less than two weeks.
Speaking shortly afterward, the Ukrainian president welcomed this “major turning point.” He also said that China could, if it wanted to, force Russia to end the war in Ukraine.
This conflict dominated a ministerial session of the Security Council, during which U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that this “war cannot end militarily.”
“It will end at the negotiating table. That’s where this war will come to an end,” he said.
