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Former UK official: Putin is playing Trump
AlArabiya English
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4/18/2025
Former UK Minister of State for Europe Denis MacShane says Putin is manipulating Trump, essentially “giving him the finger.” #Putin #Trump
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Just lastly, I mean, just reading the commentators and the editorials in the Italian press,
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some of them warning that this visit by Mrs. Maloney isn't without risk.
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One commentator said it's full of potential pitfalls.
00:15
I mean, do you think they've got in mind in Italy and perhaps in lots of other European countries,
00:20
this fear that perhaps they'll have an Oval Office situation like the one that President Zelensky had?
00:26
No, I don't think so at all.
00:27
I mean, that's something quite different in that Donald Trump said incessantly,
00:32
I mean, since Putin invaded Ukraine in 2022 to now three years ago,
00:41
he said, if I was president, not Joe Biden, this war would never have happened.
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I would have solved it. I would have settled it.
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And of course, he has been president now for a good chunk of time.
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And absolutely nothing's happened.
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I mean, Putin is playing him like a fool.
00:57
Embarrassing him.
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And Putin's attack on a civilian area, Sumi, killing 35 people, including children.
01:05
That was giving the finger to Donald Trump.
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And the Italians understand what giving the finger is in Italian as in any other language.
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I want to let him know that organised it again.
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I want toихrate him with speech, but I believe it's not.
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I don't know if I did think that was very nice, but he got a proof-
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