Donald Trump during the UN General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 23, 2025 in New York. Photo by Getty Images
Donald Trump's change in rhetoric regarding Ukraine and Russia is being interpreted as the US withdrawing from the peace process or from the war in general. Is this really the case and what would such a scenario mean?
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Ukraine, with the support of the EU, is capable of reclaiming all its territories over time, while Russia is a “paper tiger” with a difficult economic situation. With these words, US leader Donald Trump shook the diplomatic world after a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky on September 23.
This is a major shift in the US approach, the meeting with Trump was “kind, constructive,” and “the positions of the Ukrainian and American teams are closer than ever,” Zelensky said after the meeting.
