{"id":425733,"date":"2025-09-15T07:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/425733\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T07:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:44:10","slug":"trump-finally-calls-russia-the-aggressor-in-war-on-ukraine-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/425733\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump finally calls Russia the \u2018aggressor\u2019 in war on Ukraine \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But Trump\u2019s stance toward the Kremlin has changed over the summer, with his administration exerting increasing pressure on Vladimir Putin as the Russian president <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/readovkanews\/100875\" target=\"_blank\">stonewalls Trump\u2019s efforts<\/a> to broker direct peace talks with Ukraine\u2019s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI stopped seven wars, and I thought this one was going to be easy for me, but this has turned out to be tough,\u201d Trump said Sunday, referring to the Russian invasion. \u201cI think I have to do all the talking. They [Zelenskyy and Putin] hate each other. They hate each other so much they can\u2019t breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Trump\u2019s tougher stance failing to push Putin to the negotiating table with Zelenskyy, the U.S. administration is facing increasing calls to impose harsher sanctions on Russia. Trump on Sunday claimed he planned to do so \u2014 but only after Europe stops buying Russian oil and toughens its own sanctions regime.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump said European countries are his \u201cfriends,\u201d they are still \u201cbuying oil from Russia. I don\u2019t want them to buy oil. And the sanctions that they are putting on are not tough enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hungary and Slovakia are the EU\u2019s top purchasers of Russian energy and have opposed the European Commission\u2019s efforts to phase it out.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hungary-and-slovakia-must-quit-russian-gas-and-nuclear-trump-envoy-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told POLITICO<\/a> that the U.S. wants \u201cto displace all Russian gas,\u201d saying: \u201cThe more we can strangle Russia\u2019s ability to fund this murderous war, the better for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"But Trump\u2019s stance toward the Kremlin has changed over the summer, with his administration exerting increasing pressure on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2000,299,660,332,7339,2663,1771,657,49,333,2601,771,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-425733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-kremlin","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russia-sanctions","14":"tag-sanctions","15":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-vladimir-putin","19":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115207200122629544","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425733","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=425733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}