WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump compared the war between Russia and Ukraine to two kids fighting in a park, where he might have to let them brawl for a while rather than break them up immediately because of their intense hatred.
Trump told Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz on June 5 that he made that analogy in a lengthy call with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin a day earlier, after Putin said he needed to retaliate for drone strikes against his air force.
“Sometimes you see young children fighting like crazy. They hate each other and they’re fighting in a park,” Trump said. “You try to pull them apart and they don’t want to be pulled apart.”
“Sometimes you have to let them fight for a while,” Trump added.
Trump and Merz were meeting to discuss trade and how to end the three-and-a-half-year war. Merz said a day before the anniversary of D-day in World War II that Germany owes a tremendous debt to America for liberating his country and Europe from the Nazis, and needs to again help end a war.
