Amanpour: The New Trump Foreign Policy Towards ‘Former Allies … Is So Radical’

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AMANPOUR: “[Putin]‘s thrilled that President Trump, after three years plus of Putin being essentially in the diplomatic wilderness, has been brought back formally into the world fold. Trump has talked about new economic ties with Russia, new diplomatic ties. He‘s even potentially floated, before any peace deal, lifting of certain sanctions. And he‘s also, as you know, instructed the U.S. to vote with Russia. I mean, unprecedented radical vote at the U.N. this time with Russia. So all of this is manna from heaven for Russia. So they need to figure out how to — how to keep this and not alienate Trump. But Putin doesn‘t want this — this ceasefire because he‘s already said he wants to talk about the final settlement, and he wants to go back to the root causes, which means his business about NATO and how Ukraine isn‘t a viable country on its own, it‘s part of greater Russia. So all of this is right now a huge hurdle to overcome. And we‘ll wait to see what happens. In the meantime, it‘s really important to understand that this is so radical, the new Trump foreign policy towards its former allies, that they‘re wondering whether the U.S. should stay on side. And here, whether it‘s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, in France, whether it‘s Macron, they are trying to do what they know they have to do, and that is fill in the gaps militarily and potentially diplomatically."