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  Ma questa non è la nostra America di Ernesto Galli Della Loggia 28 febbraio 2025, 22:40 - Aggiornata il 28 febbraio 2025 , 23:25 Ascolta l'articolo 7 min i Siamo arrivati a un cambio epocale. E lo scontro di ieri tra Trump e Zelensky o dimostra Quanto è successo alla Casa Bianca tra Trump e Zelensky ha solo pochi precedenti. Sono precedenti scolpiti nella memoria di coloro che ancora ricordano qualcosa dei grandi drammi vissuti dalla democrazia europea.   Nello Studio Ovale  è andata in scena una sorta di replica delle chiamate a rapporto da parte di Adolf Hitler nella sua villa tra le alpi bavaresi  una volta di un cancelliere austriaco  (si chiamava Kurt von Schuschnigg),  un’altra volta del capo di Stato ungherese Horthy, per essere entrambi sottoposti a  una furia di insulti e di minacce e sentirsi intimare di cedere alla volontà del F ü hrer  quanto rimaneva della libertà dei loro Paesi. Trent’anni dopo sarebbe toccata più o meno la stessa ...

  This Never Happened With an American President Before Feb. 28, 2025 Credit... Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Opinion Columnist What happened in the Oval Office on Friday — the obviously planned ambush of President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine by President Trump and Vice President JD Vance — was something that had never happened in the nearly 250-year history of this country: In a major war in Europe, our president clearly sided with the aggressor, the dictator and the invader against the democrat, the freedom fighter and the invaded. You want an analogy? Imagine if, when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel came to the White House this month, Trump and Vance told him that the war with Hamas had gone on too long, too many lives had been lost and it was costing America too much money, so it was time for Bibi and the Israeli people to do a deal with the Hamas aggressor. Because Russia did to Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, what Hamas did to Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 — ...

  A Day of American Infamy Feb. 28, 2025 Credit... Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Listen to this article · 5:21 min  Learn more In August 1941, about four months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill aboard warships in Newfoundland’s Placentia Bay and agreed to the  Atlantic Charter,  a joint declaration by the world’s leading democratic powers on “common principles” for a postwar world. Among its key points: “no aggrandizement, territorial or other”; “sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them”; “freedom from fear and want”; freedom of the seas; “access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity.” The charter, and the alliance that came of it, is a high point of American statesmanship. On Friday in the Oval Office, the world witnessed the opposite. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s embattled democrati...

  Starmer’s bid to save a western alliance in meltdown The British prime minister believes he can still be a bridge between the Trump White House and Europe. But is this anything other than wishful thinking? UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump arrive for a joint press conference at the White House on Thursday. There are hopes in London that something can still be salvaged from the wrecked certainties of a postwar order © Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Published 5 hours ago Bridge-building has been a struggle for recent British prime ministers. Boris Johnson was widely mocked when he proposed a 28-mile link from Scotland to Northern Ireland, spanning a trench containing 1mn tonnes of unexploded munitions, chemical weapons and radioactive waste. Sir Keir Starmer was also greeted with some incredulity when he suggested on the eve of this week’s trip to Washington that he could be the link between an unconstrained White House and a Europe traumatised by Trump’s...

  Russia-Ukraine war: Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky clash in bitter White House talks Listen to this article 8 min Washington:  European leaders have rallied behind Volodymyr Zelensky after US President Donald Trump halted peace talks with the Ukrainian President and forced him to leave the White House early, after an extraordinary, heated, on-camera argument between the two leaders in the Oval Office. French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have reiterated their support for Ukraine in light of the fiery exchange, with a spokesperson for Starmer saying he had spoken to both Trump and Zelensky in the aftermath. From left: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance during a meeting in the Oval Office on Friday. CREDIT: BLOOMBERG “He retains unwavering support for Ukraine, and is doing all he can to find a path forward to a lasting peace based on sovereignty and security for Ukraine,” Starmer...

  Putin en el Despacho Oval El presidente ucranio, Volodímir Zelenski, abandona la Casa Blanca tras reunirse con Donald Trump, este viernes. Foto: SHAWN THEW (EFE) | Vídeo: EPV Putin está ganando. Esta guerra no se juega en los campos de batalla, sino en los cambios de alianzas en la escena internacional. Y cuenta con el arma más formidable que pueda imaginarse: ha conseguido situar en la cúpula de la superpotencia rival a alguien que comparte sus puntos de vista, sus ideas y su amoralidad. Por si quedaba alguna duda, ha exhibido a sus agentes en Washington, es decir, Donald Trump, el presidente, y su secuaz, el vicepresidente J. D. Vance,  que sometieron al jefe del Estado de Ucrania, Volodímir Zelenski, a una ceremonia de pública humillación,  una auténtica victoria propagandística y diplomática en la cuenta triunfal del Kremlin, siguiendo el manual de técnicas del poder más genuinas del Kremlin. Putin y Serguéi Lavrov en persona no lo habrían hecho mejor. Muchas escena...

  Los líderes europeos cierran filas con Zelenski tras los ataques de Trump en la Casa Blanca Zelenski se marcha de la Casa Blanca este viernes. Foto: SHAWN THEW (EFE) | Vídeo: EPV Los ataques y  embestidas del presidente estadounidense , Donald Trump, a Volodímir Zelenski, el líder de Ucrania, este viernes en la Casa Blanca han causado una nueva conmoción en Europa. En pleno desgarro con Estados Unidos, varios líderes europeos —entre ellos, los representantes de las principales instituciones de la UE— se han solidarizado con Zelenski, que no se ha achantado ante las amenazas del magnate republicano. Trump lo ha acusado de aprovecharse de EE UU, de “jugar con la tercera guerra mundial” y ha llegado a defender ante la delegación ucrania, en el Despacho Oval, a Vladímir Putin de las acusaciones de injerencia en las elecciones estadounidenses de 2016. “Ucrania, España está contigo”, ha remarcado el presidente español,  Pedro Sánchez , en las redes sociales, en tres idiomas: ...