{"id":195322,"date":"2025-06-18T20:45:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T20:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195322\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T20:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T20:45:12","slug":"vladimir-lets-mediate-russia-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/195322\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Vladimir, let&#8217;s mediate Russia first&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump said Wednesday he rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s offer to help mediate<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/18\/us-news\/trump-says-its-really-late-for-iran-to-begin-talks-after-getting-the-hell-beaten-out-of-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> the Iran-Israel conflict <\/a>\u2014 telling him to focus on brokering an end to the Ukraine war first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to Putin yesterday and he actually offered to help mediate,\u201d Trump told reporters on the White House lawn as he erected a large new flagpole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Do me a favor, mediate your own. Let\u2019s mediate Russia first.\u2019 I said, \u2018Vladimir, let\u2019s mediate Russia first. You can worry about this later.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Trump said he rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s offer to help resolve the Iran-Israel conflict. AP<\/p>\n<p>Trump said he told Putin to focus on resolving his own conflict with Ukraine. POOL\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trump rejected the offer after attempting for months to force Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Putin to make peace \u2014 with the US leader<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/25\/us-news\/trump-slams-putin-after-russias-deadly-overnight-drone-and-missile-attack-on-ukraine-he-has-gone-absolutely-crazy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> left fuming last month<\/a> when the \u201cabsolutely CRAZY\u201d Kremlin chief instead continued to bomb civilian areas of his neighboring nation.<\/p>\n<p>Russia and China are among the largest nations friendly toward Iran\u2019s government, which is believed to be running low on supplies of rockets and drones less than a week into the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is considering authorizing US airstrikes on the Iranian nuclear enrichement site at Fordow. Satellite image \u00a92025 Maxar Technologies\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trump made the comment while overseeing the erection of a large flagpole on the US lawn. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trump shook hand with construction workers before speaking at length about the Iran conflict. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Tehran\u2019s air defense capabilities have been largely knocked out \u2014 as Israel bombs notable Iranian nuclear facilities in an effort to block the development of nuclear weapons. The Jewish state also has assassinated leading Iranian military officials and scientists since Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is openly weighing US intervention in the conflict and <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/17\/us-news\/trump-reveals-us-knows-where-irans-supreme-leader-is-hiding-but-wont-take-action-for-now-easy-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened to kill<\/a> Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei if his government attacks American troops in the region.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear if Israel\u2019s 2,000-pound bombs can obliterate Fordow\u2019s facilities. Tam Nguyen \/ \/ NYPost Design<\/p>\n<p> Merrill Sherman \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that Iran should have negotiated before Israel launched its attack last week. AP<\/p>\n<p>Israel has used 2,000-pound bombs on Iran\u2019s nuclear sites.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is considering authorizing the use of a 30,000-pound \u201cbunker buster\u201d against the Fordow enrichment facility concealed beneath a mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump said Wednesday he rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s offer to help mediate the Iran-Israel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,774,1167,285,332,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-195322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-israel-iran-conflict","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114706326477019295","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195322","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=195322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}