{"id":743298,"date":"2026-06-17T18:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743298\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:53:46","slug":"trump-offers-ukraine-olive-branch-at-g7-with-a-price-tag-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743298\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump offers Ukraine olive branch at G7 \u2014 with a price tag \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump\u2019s apparent openness<\/a> to increasing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his war against Ukraine, and his need for help from allies to stabilize a framework ceasefire agreement with Iran. The contours of a deal in which Trump backs Europe on Ukraine in exchange for European help securing the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 the major waterway whose closure during the war with Iran sent energy prices skyrocketing \u2014 appear to be taking shape.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe discussions we\u2019ve had among ourselves and with the U.S. president \u2014 both in official meetings and in informal encounters on the sidelines \u2014 give me a certain sense of optimism,\u201d German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told journalists on Tuesday. <\/p>\n

While diplomats cautioned against being too optimistic, pointing out that Trump has previously reversed himself after making pro-Ukraine statements, they also echoed the German leader\u2019s assessment of transatlantic relations despite Trump\u2019s individual spats with many of the G7 leaders.<\/p>\n

The sense of relief was palpable among the five diplomats and officials who spoke to POLITICO, all of whom were granted anonymity to candidly discuss closed-door discussions.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, Trump had triggered a wave of anxiety<\/a> by suggesting that the pact between Washington and Tehran would allow him to refocus his attention on a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Concern that the U.S. president could unwind months of efforts by Ukraine\u2019s allies to ramp up pressure on Moscow added to bad blood over the Iran war \u2014 which had widely criticized by EU leaders, including Merz \u2014 as well as individual spats with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer<\/a> and French President Emmanuel Macron<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s apparent openness to increasing pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his war against Ukraine, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,6642,3412,44503,637,10817,10816,77038,43,5897,19239,16938,266487,44,3241,3895,6639,10858,41,39,42,40,75923,3848,10612,127,772,19309,47516,75534],"class_list":["post-743298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-drones","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-energy-prices","tag-france","tag-friedrich-merz","tag-germany","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-jd-vance","tag-keir-starmer","tag-nato-summit","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-oman","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transatlantic-relations","tag-turkey","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-states","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}