The fallout from the meeting between presidents Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky has been swift and intense. Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss what’s next for the war in Ukraine.
After weeks of rising tension between Trump and Zelensky, their Oval Office meeting marks a major shift in U.S. foreign policy. During Trump’s first term, there was a sense that U.S. allies “could just wait [Trump] out,” Ashley Parker said last night. In their view, the “fever-dream nightmare would end after four years.” But now, with Trump’s realignment of the country’s global position, there is a sense that “Europeans are going to have to respond accordingly in a world where they can no longer believe they can count on America as an ally.”
Joining staff writer at The Atlantic and guest moderator Franklin Foer to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times; Jonathan Karl, the chief Washington correspondent at ABC News; Ashley Parker, a staff writer at The Atlantic; Nancy Youssef, a national-security correspondent at The Wall Street Journal.
Watch the full episode here.
