Trump-Zelensky Shouting Match reveals the collision between the USA and European powers

Vice President JD Vance (right) criticizes the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) when President Donald Trump hears on Friday, February 28, 2025 in Washington DC in the Oval Office in the White House [AP Photo/Mystyslav Chernov]

During his appearance in the White House on Friday, US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance carried out a publicly broadcast screaming game with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and revealed the crisis that was triggered by the failure of the US Nato War in Ukraine, and the growing confrontation between the United States and European Imperialist Powers.

After the meetings of the White House this week with the French President Emmanuel Macron and the British Prime Minister Keir Starrer, Zelensky came to the White House on Friday to receive a signing for an agreement that would hand over the mineral resources of Ukraine to the USA.

Instead, plans to sign the deal were scrapped, and Zelensky was ejected from the White House after an unprecedented confrontation.

During the 13-minute exchange, Trump and Vance gave a devastating picture of the current stand of the US Nato War against Russia. “At the moment you are going around and forces conscripts to the front because her workforce has problems,” said Vance.

“You are not in a very good position,” added Trump. “You play with the life of millions of people, you play with the Second World War.” He added: “Your country is in great difficulties. You don't win that. “

Trump continued: “We gave them through this stupid president [Joe Biden]350 million US dollars of military equipment. You are buried there. Your people die. They run low with soldiers. “

Even while Trump exported the presidency of Obama and Biden, Trump tried to identify with the armament of Ukraine. He explained: “Obama gave them leaves and I gave them spears” and referred to tank missiles that made Ukraine available in the first Trump management of Ukraine.

In the public acceleration of Zelensky, Trump tried to address domestic disillusionment with the Ukraine secretary, which does not offer significant support outside the wealthy basis of the upper middle class of the Democratic Party.

But whatever Trump's intentions, the public confrontation in the Oval Office was proof of the deep crisis of US imperialism, from which the collapse of the Ukraine secretary is a particularly acute expression.

The project to transform Ukraine into a NATO Garrison state now extends over five administrations, democratic and republican. Starting with the explanation of the Bush administration in 2008, the United States and its NATO allied hundreds of billions of dollars have spent the fact that the Ukraine “becomes” and destroyed the call of US imperialism on the project for the use of Ukraine as a lever and, as he hoped, he hoped.

The UkraineKlieg was the central foreign policy project of the bidges. By drawing Russia to a war against its limits, she hoped to unite NATO alliance under the US hegemony. A month after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Biden explained: “NATO has never been united than today.”

From the beginning, NATO aimed to combine the European imperialist powers as part of a “Pax Americana”: first against the Soviet Union, then against Russia. In this context, the United States spent great resources to act as a referee for intra-European and transatlantic imperialist tensions.

Biden's efforts to combine NATO alliance by waging a “hot war” against Russia tried to cover up the fundamental reality of a growing gap between the United States and its NATO allies.

Interimperialist conflicts are now at the center of geopolitics. The in -depth US conflict with the European powers comes when the Trump government tries to react to the crisis of the Global Hegemony of the United States through a reorientation of the US foreign policy to dominate America in order to create a care base for war with China, the largest geopolitical competitor of the US imperialism.

Defense Minister Pete Hegseth said at the beginning of this month: “Stark Strategic Realities prevent the United States from being focused primarily on the security of Europe. … The United States prioritized the deterrent war with China in the Pacific, recognizes the reality of scarcity and make the resource compromises. “

On January 7, just two weeks before taking office, Trump increased the prospect of using Military Force to Annex Greenland, a Denmark abroad, a member of NATO and the European Union.

Just two days before his meeting with Zelensky, Trump announced that the United States would impose 25 percent tariffs of the European Union, and explained that the EU was formed to fool the United States.

In response to this, the European Commission's retail spokesman, Olof Gill, said, “the EU will react to unjustified obstacles to free and fair trade.”

The Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez added: “We will defend our interests if our economies are attacked with tariffs that are completely unjustified and represent a veiled threat to our economic sovereignty.”

But the Shouting Match on Friday has thrown petrol on the flames that devour the NATO alliance. “Today it became clear that the free world needs a new leader,” said the top diplomat of the European Union, Kaja Kallas. Former French Prime Minister François Hollande added: “The Trump government is no longer our ally.”

At the beginning of the week the telegraph reported that Germany and France were in the talks to station French nuclear bomber bombers in Germany “when the United States threatened to withdraw their armed forces from the continent”.

Trump's efforts to realign the US foreign policy have triggered a crisis within the US political establishment. Trump's postponement becomes through sections of the bourgeoisie, which believe that the conflict with Russia and the disassembly of NATO would be catastrophic for American global influence. While they support Trump's attack on social programs and democratic rights, this topic affects the global dominance of American imperialism.

“Putin wins the spectacle of the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office,” said the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, Otherwise, Trump's policy has fully supported this. The magazine wrote that the war in Ukraine was the undermine Russia “without US soldiers ever fired a shot”. This “core interest has not changed, but Ukraine insulted from the whole world will make it more difficult to achieve it.”

Elissa Slotkin, the leading “CIA democrat” in the House of Representatives, gave an explanation in which the fear was that the confrontation with Zelensky was “not a great day for someone except Putin – or maybe XI Jinping”. This means that a reversal of Ukraine tends to undermine American imperialism in its conflict with China than to strengthen.

There is no anti -war parliamentary group of the US political establishment. The Democratic Party is committed to the escalation of the war against Russia. In the meantime, Trump is intended to build a US colonial empire that aims to take up the conflict with China and stimulate the conflict with the European imperialist powers.

In this in -depth crisis, the working class must take an independent, internationalistic position and do not match one or the other faction of the ruling class in a country. Workers in every country have to gather on the banner of socialist internationalism, which opposes the war plans of the imperialist powers by the international unity of the working class.

Trump-Zelensky Shouting Match reveals the collision between the USA and European powers

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