I en BBC oversikt fremkommer det at analyser foretatt tilsier at USA har gitt 191 milliarder dollar til Ukraina uten bindinger. Trump sier de har gitt 350 milliarder. (Red.)
Jeremy Bowen: Trump-Zelensky row signals looming
crisis between Europe and US
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Jeremy Bowen
International editor, BBC News
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The relationship between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was bad
enough before the shouting match in the Oval Office.
President Trump had already called him a dictator and said Ukraine
started the war - which is a lie.
Now the US-Ukraine alliance nurtured by Joe Biden is in pieces.
The public breakdown also signals a major crisis looming between
European members of Nato and the US.
There will be many more doubts and questions about the US commitment to
European security outside Ukraine. The biggest is whether President Trump would
keep the promise his predecessor Harry Truman made in 1949 to treat an attack
on a Nato ally as an attack on America.
Those concerns are based on what appears to be Trump's determination to
restore a strong relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He has put heavy pressure on Ukraine while offering Putin big
concessions - that would have to be made by the Ukrainians.
The security of Ukraine is coming a poor second - and Europeans are
worrying theirs is too.
President Zelensky's refusal to make those concessions has infuriated
Trump.
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It's not just the minerals deal that he refused to sign. Ukrainians
believe they are in a war for national survival - and that Putin would break
any promise to end the war if he is not deterred.
That's why Zelensky asked repeatedly for American security guarantees.
The meeting ignited into a shouting match after an intervention by
Vice-President JD Vance.
There are suspicions now that the public row was - in the words of one
diplomatic observer - a planned political mugging: either to force Zelensky to
do America's bidding, or to precipitate a crisis that would allow them to blame
him for whatever happens next.
If Trump follows the breakdown of talks with a freeze on military aid,
Ukraine will fight on. The questions are how effectively, and for how long.
Pressure will redouble on
its European allies to take up the slack.
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