Donald Trump declared Ukraine had started the war with Russia and labelled its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a dictator. 

Trump’s vice president JD Vance has thrown his support behind far-right parties in Germany.

At the same time, talks on ending the war in Ukraine began with only the US and Moscow at the table. 

It was a week where we saw an extraordinary shift in American foreign policy, which led to European leaders holding crisis talks. 

Today, Samir Puri, director of Chatham House’s centre for global governance and security on how it all unfolded and the consequences that could follow.  

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Dr Samir Puri, Director of the Centre for Global Governance and Security at Chatham House and author of Westlessness: The Great Global Rebalancing