Should Europeans be worried about Donald Trump’s ‘isolationist’ America? | LBC callers react
James O’Brien invites his European listeners to call into LBC, and tell him how they feel about continued signalling from Donald Trump’s administration about a US withdrawal from Europe’s security architecture.
00:00 – Caller Andrei is worried that Russian interference will only continue to grow in his home country of Romania.
04:41 – Caller Helen, whose mother lived in Communist Poland, thinks we live in a ‘dystopian world’.
09:01 – Caller Edin tells James that an emboldened Russia is creating greater tension between his home countries of Bosnia and Serbia.
14:27 – Caller Darius, from Lithuania, remembers a time when America promised freedom to countries like his.
18:38 – Caller Clara, a Hungarian refugee, reflects on the importance of American support in the history of her country.
At a gathering of world leaders in Munich, Trump announced that he had spoken to Vladimir Putin and would begin negotiations for peace in Ukraine, while his defence chief Pete Hegseth told European and NATO allies that they would have to begin paying more for the security of their own continent.
This sparked accusations of a betrayal of Ukraine, as the country’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy also insisted that he and his officials would take part in any peace talks if Ukraine is allowed a seat at the table during negotiations.
Some EU leaders hit out at Trump and accused him of “appeasement” – similar to western European governments that gave a series of concessions to Nazi Germany in a failed bid to avoid the Second World War.
Listen to the full show on Global Player: https://app.af.globalplayer.com/Br0x/LBCYouTubeListenLive
#jamesobrien #america #donaldtrump #trump #foreignpolicy #europe #eu #LBC #russia #putin #ukraine #zelensky #politics
LBC is the home of live debate around news and current affairs in the UK.
Join in the conversation and listen at https://www.lbc.co.uk/
Sign up to LBC’s weekly newsletter here: https://l-bc.co/signup
Credit to : LBC
