He meets with the presidents of France and Ukraine at the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral
▲ The rulers of Ukraine, Volodymir Zelensky, and of France, Emmanuel Macron, with the next president of the United States, yesterday in Paris.Photo Afp
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Sunday, December 8, 2024, p. 16
Paris. President-elect Donald Trump stated from Paris that the world is becoming a little crazyand assured that the United States should avoid becoming militarily involved in Syria in the face of the recent offensive by jihadist militias that reached the suburbs of the capital. This is not our fightdeclared the Republican in a publication on social networks.
Syria is a disaster, but it is not our friend, and the United States should have nothing to do with itthe magnate wrote minutes before his meeting with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, within the framework of the reopening of the Notre Dame cathedral, and pointed out that the Syrian president, Bashar al Assad, did not He deserved American support to stay in power.
In addition, Trump criticized the role that then-president Barack Obama took in the Arab country, and expressed that the Democrat He refused to keep his promise to protect the red line and all hell broke loosecausing Russia will take control.
He added that Moscow is so entangled in Ukraine that it seems unable to stop this march of support through Syria, a nation the Kremlin has protected for years; stated that In reality there was never any Russian interest in Damascus other than to make a fool of Obama.
Macron, who in the past has dissented from Trump’s foreign policy approach, said yesterday that receiving him after five years was a great honor for the French people and added that he remembers your solidarity and immediate action.
In 2018, the magnate attacked the French president in a tweet storm, after Macron gave a speech on the centenary of the end of the First World War that was considered a disagreement with Trump’s idea of nationalism, he noted. Washington Post.
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and the social network X, who has accompanied Trump since the election, was also present at the inauguration. The Ukrainian president, Volodymir Zelensky, defended before Trump the possibility of achieving peace by force in the war with Russia in the meeting together with the French president.
We all want this war to end as soon as possible and fairly.said the Ukrainian president, adding that Trump As always, you have been determined and I thank you.
Meanwhile, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced a $988 million military aid package for kyiv, which includes drones, ammunition for HIMARS precision rocket launchers, equipment and parts for artillery systems, tanks and vehicles. armored.
This government has made its decision. So has a bipartisan coalition in Congress. The next government must make its own choiceAustin said in a speech at an annual meeting of national security officials, defense companies and lawmakers at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.