Trump’s undermining Europe’s new world order - much to Putin’s glee

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Europe’s every move to try and force Putin into a peace deal is dogged by the US president’s flip-flopping on Russia, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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Vladimir Putin has lost no time in warning that he’d attack foreign troops stationed in Ukraine as part of a peace deal he has no intention of signing while Donald Trump continues to undermine Europe’s defences.

Trump’s undermining Europe’s new world order - much to Putin’s glee

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