{"id":354401,"date":"2025-08-18T14:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354401\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:58:11","slug":"five-dangerous-fault-lines-divide-trump-and-zelensky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354401\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dangerous fault lines divide Trump and Zelensky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">On August 18th Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine\u2019s president, will enter the White House to meet Donald Trump and discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2025\/08\/17\/fear-of-a-new-oval-office-fiasco-over-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ending the war in Ukraine<\/a>. For Mr Zelensky it is a perilous moment. Since Mr Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/europe\/2025\/08\/16\/donald-trumps-gift-to-vladimir-putin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">met Vladimir Putin<\/a>, Russia\u2019s president, in Alaska on August 15th, the American president has put intense pressure on Mr Zelensky, stating that he could \u201cend the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to\u201d. The leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Finland and the European Union fear the White House will sell out Ukraine and Europe, and are rushing to Washington to support Mr Zelensky. \u201cNever had so many European leaders at one time,\u201d wrote Mr Trump. \u201cMy great honour to host them!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 18th Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine\u2019s president, will enter the White House to meet Donald Trump and discuss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,125106,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-354401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-the-economist-explains","10":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115050361964254233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354401","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=354401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}