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Chapter 1: Why is Donald Trump viewed as weak by world leaders?
World leaders are looking at Donald Trump and they smell weakness. Donald Trump seems frozen. He promised that there would be peace in Ukraine in 24 hours from when he took office. In fact, he said he would negotiate a peace deal even before day one. It would be easy. He failed at that. He failed at trying to intimidate President Zelensky. He's failed at trying to intimidate Canada to annex it.
He's failed to intimidate Europe. whether you're our allies or now former allies based on Donald Trump's behavior, or whether you're our adversaries who Donald Trump wants to be friends with, but who are viewing Donald Trump with mockery and weakness like China and Russia. no matter what, everybody is looking at Donald Trump and sensing the same thing.
This is an individual who does not know what he's doing, who can't handle this position, who just wants to go golfing and would rather post memes than caring about any details. And this is someone who's focused seemingly on just destroying the United States of America. Take a look
at just the international headlines like this in the UK from the Daily Star, madness of King Don, another ordinary day in the grand old USA, man baby Trump, man baby, insists he will defy law to be president until 2023. World markets tumble over new threats on tariffs. You got headlines like this as well. Putin begins biggest Russian military call-up in years.
President Vladimir Putin has called up 160,000 men aged 18 to 30, Russia's highest number of conscripts since 2011. As Spravdy explains, while some still want to entertain the notion that Russia's dictator isn't planning on a full war,
On the European continent, Putin just signed this decree, you see it right here, for spring mobilization, growing the Russian army by another 160,000 troops, in addition to the constant influx of contract soldiers from North Korea and elsewhere. Your friend Donald, Kim Jong-un, Donald.
As Jay in Kiev, who does a great job chronicling what's going on in Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as he writes, Russia readies for full-scale war against Europe while Trump tries to extort all of Europe. When America again needs help, allies will be sending blankets. Headlines like this as well from Taiwan.
The Chinese military announced large-scale drills, PBS writes, in the waters and airspace around Taiwan on Tuesday that include an aircraft carrier battle group, as it again warned the self-ruled island democracy against seeking formal independence, CNBC writes. China kicks off military drills near Taiwan. warns islands independence means war.
You see right here, these are some of the images of China's Shandong carrier spotted in the distance by the Taiwanese Navy ships. When Donald Trump showed weakness in the Oval Office and attacked Zelensky, when Donald Trump was clearly showing that he could not manage what was going on with Russia's unlawful invasion. China saw that as weakness. Putin saw that as weakness.
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Chapter 2: How has Trump's behavior affected international relations?
As we have said all these years, but even more intensively right now, Ukraine is defending European security, European peace, so the continued support.
is an investment in our own security and therefore the three billions in addition amounting to seven billions for 2025 but even more important our constitutional change to enable that we have 500 billions for the next year which is also open to support of European defense and the support of Ukraine underlining that we are staying and standing with Ukraine as long as it takes
and that we can win peace only through strength altogether. And therefore, this is a farewell, but also a continuation of Germany's support in the upcoming government for just peace, but also for EU membership, because this is also, I think, the pathway we have walked together in the last years, that Ukraine belongs to the European Union, and we will walk this path also together in the future.
Now, President Zelensky made numerous other posts about the various European allies and others who came to visit him over and over again, expressing gratitude and talking about the strong alliances that they have. Now, I want to share this with you as well, because I find this to be kind of interesting.
What's leaking from the Trump regime about Donald Trump being angry that Putin's outplaying him? that Putin's out maneuvering him. But then as this story breaks, by the way, from Fox broke the story, Jackie Heinrich from Fox broke the story, who, by the way, the Trump regime is really not a big fan of hers.
Then you have Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Monday, though, saying that the reason that Putin had to invade, he goes, was because Ukraine wanted to join NATO. Donald Trump's instinct, in other words, is to take Putin's propaganda right away and then spread it from the Oval Office. So Let me first show this first. This is from Fox. Trump believes Putin is stalling.
Administrations eyeing aggressive sanctions enforcements, including Russian shadow fleet. A source familiar with the discussion tells Fox that Donald Trump is frustrated with Putin and believes Russia is slow rolling comprehensive ceasefire talks. A path forward is being discussed. And it goes on to talk about that path forward. Now,
They're, you know, whether that's being leaked from like Rubio or somebody who wants to be more hawkish, or I should just say more rational about the threat being posed by Russia. And they're trying to will that into existence. I mean, Donald Trump, though, from the Oval Office, reeking of weakness. I don't know how else do you look. This reeks of weakness. Weakness, here, play this clip.
And what happens is we made a deal for Rare Earth. It was all done. And I heard through you, I haven't spoken to them yet, but through you, I heard that they're now saying, well, I'll only do that deal if we get into NATO or something to that effect. Well, that was never, number one, discussed. Number two, I think it's going to be very long before Putin They said, you're not going into NATO.
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