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Trump turns on Europe: will he pull support for Ukraine? - The Latest

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The Guardian

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4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has loomed large over Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with European leaders, after the US president took aim at the Ukrainian leader once again. It comes in the wake of a new White House national security strategy that has caused fear in Europe, but drawn praise from the Kremlin. Lucy Hough speaks to our Europe correspondent Jon Henley – Watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:11.8

This really is a profound and radical and fundamental change in US policy towards Europe.

0:19.6

But if we default to the old ways of America is just going to be the big idiot with a checkbook,

0:24.0

that's not going to work.

0:25.2

That's not going to happen.

0:26.2

I'm a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn't yet read the proposal.

0:30.5

That was as if a few hours ago.

0:32.7

His people love it.

0:34.2

So the question really is how and when and if the EU is finally going to kind of

0:41.7

stand up to Trump and say, look, hang on, you know, enough's enough. Has Donald Trump finally

0:47.2

turned his back on Europe? And what does that mean for Ukraine? From the Guardians today

0:52.1

in focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

0:57.7

I'm joined by John Henley, Guardian's Europe correspondent based in Paris. So, Vladimir Zelensky,

1:03.8

the Ukrainian president, has flown into London today for talks at Downing Street with

1:07.9

Prime Minister Kirstama, but also with French President Emmanuel

1:10.9

Macron and the German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz. So this is about a kind of public display of

1:16.3

solidarity and unity, isn't it, at a fairly extraordinary moment of US cooling against Europe,

1:24.5

to say the least? Yes, that's right. I mean, I think we can't, we're not going to expect anything, you know,

1:30.4

particularly concrete or new out of this meeting today.

1:34.2

It's very much continuation of ongoing talks and really all about an expression of

1:40.1

European solidarity to Vlodemio Zelensky.

1:44.6

As you say, in the face of what is looking increasingly like,

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