{"id":180014,"date":"2025-06-13T03:05:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180014\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T03:05:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T03:05:11","slug":"everybody-hates-russia-but-loves-germany-and-japan-donald-trump-reflects-on-world-war-ii-in-talks-with-macron-and-putin-calls-it-a-strange-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/180014\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everybody hates Russia but loves Germany and Japan&#8217;: Donald Trump reflects on World War II in talks with Macron and Putin; calls it &#8216;a strange world&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/121815813.jpg\" alt=\"'Everybody hates Russia but loves Germany and Japan': Donald Trump reflects on World War II in talks with Macron and Putin; calls it 'a strange world'\" title=\"US President Donald Trump\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump took a reflective turn on Thursday, steering a conversation back in time to the days of World War II. In remarks that blended history with surprise, Trump recounted recent conversations with French President <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/emmanuel-macron\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> and Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2014both of which circled back to one of history\u2019s greatest conflicts.&#8221;Macron is a good man,&#8221; Trump began, before describing how the French leader told him, \u201cWe are celebrating World War II and our victory.\u201d Trump said he responded with a smirk: &#8220;Your victory?&#8221;\u2014a remark that seemed to play down France\u2019s role in the Allied win, despite being one of the key members of the coalition.He then shifted to Russia. Recalling a conversation with Putin, Trump said the Russian president emphasised the Soviet Union\u2019s immense sacrifice in the war. &#8220;Russia fought with us in WWII and everybody hates them,&#8221; Trump quoted Putin as saying, mentioning that the USSR lost around 51 million people during the conflict. &#8220;And Germany and Japan, they&#8217;re fine \u2014 someday somebody will explain that,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;But I like Germany and Japan too. Everybody hates Russia and they love Germany and Japan\u2026 It\u2019s a strange world.&#8221;Trump went on to express confusion and disappointment over what he sees as America\u2019s lack of commemoration for its role in the war. &#8220;We won World War II and World War I, right? We won them. And yet, we are the only country that doesn\u2019t celebrate. Everybody\u2019s celebrating and we should celebrate too,&#8221; he said.During World War II, the United States was a major force within the Allied powers, which included the UK, the Soviet Union (successor &#8211; modern day Russia), and France. Together, they defeated the Axis powers &#8212; Germany, Italy, and Japan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump took a reflective turn on Thursday, steering a conversation back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[74012,74011,34,2000,299,1824,332,74014,74013,74015,333],"class_list":{"0":"post-180014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-america-role-in-world-war-ii","9":"tag-donald-trump-world-war-ii","10":"tag-emmanuel-macron","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-soviet-union-wwii-sacrifice","16":"tag-trump-putin-conversation-wwii","17":"tag-trump-reflections-on-history","18":"tag-vladimir-putin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114673845840477389","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}