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The Trump-Zelenskyy Spat: Assessing the Impact on Europe

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Journal of Contemporary Politics

DOI: 10.53989/jcp.v4i2.25.38

Year: 2025, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 50-53

Original Article

The Trump-Zelenskyy Spat: Assessing the Impact on Europe

Jnyanendra Barman^1,∗

¹PhD Research Scholar, Department of Political Science, Assam University, Silchar, Assam, India

*Corresponding Author
Email: [email protected]

Received Date:12 April 2025, Accepted Date:27 May 2025, Published Date:24 July 2025

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Abstract

The February 28, 2025, Trump- Zelenskyy confrontation has sparked debates on America’s role in the Ukraine conflict and its implications for European security. In addition to straining ties between the United States and Ukraine, this conflict has made European nations re-evaluate their reliance on American military assistance and their approach to Russia. Europe’s new worry on defence readiness and NATO’s future are intensifying as a result of Trump administration’s challenges to established alliances, which have prompted urgent talks on military autonomy and geopolitical stability.

Keywords: Trump 2.0, Zelensky, Europe, NATO, Ukraine-Russia war

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© 2025 Published by Bangalore University. This is an open-access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

24 July 2025

Year: 2025, Volume: 4, Issue: 2

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