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Do Trump’s advisers really understand that Russia is the aggressor?

From Süddeutsche Zeitung · () German

Translated from German and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Analysis Named sources Context piece
  • Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.
  • The article questions whether President Donald Trump’s advisers understand Russia’s role as the aggressor in the Eastern European war.
  • It portrays Trump as focused on other conflicts, including Venezuela, Iran and a trade dispute with Canada.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner visited Vladimir Putin in Moscow, then traveled to Kyiv to see Volodymyr Zelenskyy and even embraced him. But that display of warmth may mean little, the article argues.

The piece questions whether Trump’s close advisers truly understand that Russia is the aggressor in the war in Eastern Europe. It portrays the conflict as having slipped from Donald Trump’s attention while the U.S. president dealt with what the article calls his own wars.

According to the article, Trump first allowed the United States to take over Venezuela in January. He then began attacks in Iran alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In between, he seized parts of Venezuela’s oil and started a trade war with neighboring NATO partner Canada.

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Originally published by Süddeutsche Zeitung in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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