Donald Trump is not only insolent in his public interventions and tweets. The President of the United States can adopt a blatantly rude behavior in private meetings with his counterparts around the world, even if they are allies and have known each other for years, as is the case with Emmanuel Macron.
The wooden doors of most of the nearly 200 vaulted shops surrounding the outer part of the grand Naqsh-e Jahan square are closed. The printed fabrics, carpets, carved copper objects, among other products sold in this bazaar that has fascinated tourists for centuries, now gone, are kept inside by order of the authorities. Many of the families who usually take advantage of this time on a spring day to have a picnic have not arrived either, much less the teenage girls – many of them without veils – who enjoy riding around the square on electric motorcycles.
The United States will withdraw 5,000 troops from its NATO ally, Germany — one seventh of those present in the country —, the Pentagon announced on Friday, following a public confrontation over the war in Iran between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The German Defense Minister, Boris Pistorius, has stated that the partial withdrawal of US troops from the country, announced by the Pentagon, was foreseeable, but emphasizes the need for Europe to take a more active role in its own defense.
The United States once thought of turning Germany into an agricultural and livestock country, without an industrial pulse, with the aim of preventing its rearmament forever. Eighty years later, the United States is pushing Germany towards rearmament. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a sponsor in the 1940s of a pastoral Germany, would be horrified today.
The United States is going to withdraw 5,000 soldiers from Germany, the Pentagon announced on Friday, in what appears to be a retaliation by the United States against its close NATO ally, as there are increasing differences between President Donald Trump and Europe over the war in Iran.
The government of Tehran sent a new proposal to the Pakistani mediators for negotiations with the United States. Without the terms being disclosed, President Donald Trump already dismissed it in statements to journalists before embarking on a trip this Friday to Florida, which will be his first public event outside the White House since the shooting last Saturday at the correspondents’ dinner.
After more than four years of determined defense against Russia, the Ukrainian army needs reform. The country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, announced that it will begin in June and will include a phased demobilization and a significant increase in the salaries of those fighting on the front lines.
For 35 years, Valérie Gautier, president of the association Veterans back to Normandy, has welcomed American survivors of the 1944 landing every June 6. This year there will be only five, aged between 99 and 102 years. It is a beautiful example of transatlantic friendship that survives the Trump upheaval, but it is not easy. “I find it hard to talk to them about this topic because most idolize their president,” Valérie explains to La Vanguardia from Normandy. “The context is not very favorable. But I hope the good relationship with their families will continue.”
US media asked on Friday: “Are we at war?”.