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Drama at the Oval Office as Trump sends countries back to the drawing board

US President Donald Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 28, 2025. [AFP]

Friday, February 28, 2025 capped a week of high diplomacy at the Oval Office in the White House. US President Donald Trump hosted European leaders Emmanuel Macron of France, Keir Starmer of Britain, and Volodomyr Zelensky of Ukraine. France, the United States, and Britain are permanent members of the UN Security Council, and so is Russia and China.

The three flew to Washington to see Trump and discuss Russia, Ukraine, trade, mineral deals, and tariffs. The main focus was European concern with Trump’s views on how to end the three year old war in Ukraine between Russia and Ukraine in which Ukraine is getting, besides a beating, a lot of money and weapons from NATO countries.

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