Following Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s phone conversation on Wednesday, during which the two seemed to discuss plans for ending the war in Ukraine, there is a great deal of worry, panic, and alarm in the European press this Friday. Although NATO leader Mark Rutte has praised Trump’s candor and stated that Europe needs a wake-up call regarding its defense spending, the British daily The I claims that the call has left European leaders reeling. The two leaders are described as “castaways” on the front page of the French left-wing newspaper Libération. The editor of the paper describes the discussion with Trump as Putin’s biggest win in three years of conflict, and it didn’t even take place on the battlefield.
There is a lot of worry that negotiations to end the conflict in Ukraine will be conducted at Ukraine’s expense and will exclude Kyiv entirely. Trump informs Volodymyr Zelensky that he has no seat at the figurative negotiating table with Putin in Ransom’s cartoon published in the French newspaper Le Parisien.
The German daily, the Frankfurter Allgemeine, questions whether Berlin is just observing this whole situation from a distance. According to the report, this week’s exchange between Putin and Trump and the remarks that followed have not only caused Germany to reevaluate its own place in the war. They also raise the question of how Europe can assume responsibility for both its own and Ukraine’s security during the country’s election campaign. Former NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Richard Shirreff claims in a Daily Mail article that Trump has given Ukraine to Russia, calling it worse than Neville Chamberlain’s concessions to Nazi Germany. Additionally, he admits that this deal is disastrous forthe valiant Ukrainians who have been fighting for three years.
A European official told Politico that European leaders just don’t have a grand strategy for dealing with Trump’s new global chaos. Speaking anonymously, the official tells Politico that Trump’s mention of peace negotiations without even mentioning Europe demonstrates how much Washington ignores the continent. The president of the United States has given a harsh wake-up call to the harsh reality of the modern world.
The tumultuous legal battle and acrimonious succession dispute between Rupert Murdoch and his four children over the future of his empire are detailed in the New York Times. The Times article, which is based on 3,000 pages of court documents, tells the story of a family succession saga that resembles a script from the television show “Succession” (which was based on the Murdoch family). Murdoch, who is ninety-three, has always wanted his four children to inherit his empire. However, he has recently attempted to concentrate power in the hands of just one child: Lachlan Murdoch, who is the most conservative of the four siblings and who embodies the conservative outlook Murdoch has for his news empire’s future.
The New York Times describes the contentious succession dispute and turbulent court battle between Rupert Murdoch and his four children over the future of his empire. Based on 3,000 pages of court documents, the Times article describes a family succession saga that sounds a lot like a script from the television series “Succession” (which was based on the Murdoch family). The ninety-three-year-old Murdoch has always desired that his four children inherit his business. But recently, he has tried to consolidate power in the hands of only one child: Lachlan Murdoch, the most conservative of the four siblings and the personification of Murdoch’s conservative outlook for the future of his news empire.
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