A number leader in the legislature Chuck Schumer condemned on Sunday the way president Donald Trump deals with the war between Russia and Ukraine, saying that the United States is risking European alliances and making the country look "weak" to abroad opponents.
In fresh weeks, the Trump administration has intensified the force on Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenski and Russia's president Vladimir Putin to agree to the US proposal to recognise Russia's seizure of Crimea. Trump and another White home officials, including Vice president J.D. Vance, besides began threatening to break peace negotiations if both countries did not sit down shortly to the negotiating table.
On Sunday Schumer made it clear that he was opposed to Trump's direction of diplomacy, leaving support for Ukraine. "Europeans have sided with us – the full West has sided with us," Schumer said during his speech on the CNN programme "State of the Union". "They invested money. They have utilized all available diplomatic and economical tools to support us. How can Europe always trust us again if Trump withdraws?"
Schumer's concerns about Europe came after that, Like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and peculiar Envoy Steve Witkoff left the summit last week with European allies, where the end of the three-year war was to be discussed, thus signalling the Trump administration's desire to proceed implementing the proposal preferred by Moscow.
Schumer warned that Trump's strategy could dare opponents of a country specified as China and Iran.
"The worst part is that it is simply a sign of the weakness of the United States," Schumer said. “This is simply a signal for all dictators in
China, North Korea and Iran that if they argue Trump and intimidate him, they will accomplish their goal.”
“This would be a moral tragedy”
Some Republicans besides begin to criticize Trump's approach to war. On Friday Senator Chuck Grassley (Republican of Iowa) warned Trump that Putin "igra with America" and called on the president to impose sanctions on Russia.
Even Trump seems increasingly skeptical of Putin's desire to scope an agreement. On Saturday he criticized him for starting an attack on Kiev last week, in which at least 8 people were killed.
"There was no reason for Putin to fire missiles in the last fewer days towards civilian areas, cities and towns," Trump wrote in a post on fact Social.
Schumer said that "to challenge Zelenski's position" and to retreat from the ceasefire negotiations would be a "moral tragedy". However, he added that he felt that the president was "thinking this direction."
