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Merz says US in ‘strong position’ to stop Putin, Trump says ‘let them fight for a little while’
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told President Donald Trump he is in a «strong position» to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine, to which the president suggested maybe the world needs to «let them fight for a little while.»
«America is again in a very strong position to do something on this war and ending this war,» Merz said, while also referencing the U.S.’s role in ending World War II on the eve of the anniversary of D-Day, which marked the turn of events that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany. «So let’s talk about what we can do jointly, and we are ready to do what we can.»
Merz called for more pressure to be placed on Russia in coordination with European allies.

President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meet in the Oval Office of the White House on June 5, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump responded by providing an analogy of two kids fighting, and suggested perhaps it was «too early» to break up the fight between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
«Sometimes you see two young children fighting like crazy – they hate each other, and they’re fighting in a park, and you try and pull them apart, they don’t want to be pulled,» Trump said. «Sometimes you’re better off letting them fight for a while and then pulling them apart.»
Trump said he gave that analogy to Putin in his call with him on Wednesday and said he told the Kremlin chief «maybe you’re going to have to keep fighting and suffering a lot.»

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 7, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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Reporters asked Merz, who has been an ardent supporter of Ukraine and recently lifted Germany’s existing strike bans, if he agrees with Trump that «fighting it out» was the way to proceed.
«I think we both agree on this war and how terrible this war is. And we are both looking for ways to stop it very soon,» Merz said. «I told the president before we came in that he is the key person in the world who can really do that now by putting pressure on Russia, and we will have this debate later on again, how we can proceed jointly between the Europeans and the Americans.

European leaders, from left, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, hold a telephone conversation with President Trump at the 6th European Political Community summit on May 16, 2025, at Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania. (KuglerSteffen/Bundesregierung via Getty Images)
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«I think we are all… having the duty to do something on that now, to stop it after three and a half years, which is really terrible,» he added, making it clear without directly contradicting the president that he did not agree with Trump.
«We are on the side of Ukraine, and we are trying to get them stronger and stronger just to make Putin stop this war. This is our approach,» Merz added.
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Flashback: Biden repeatedly equated Islamophobia and antisemitism amid surge in attacks on Jews

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As violent instances of antisemitism break out around the country this year, Fox News Digital took a look back at former President Joe Biden’s penchant for equating antisemitism and Islamophobia.
While the former president rightly condemned hate directed at Jews in the wake of the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of Israelis and the subsequent war in Gaza, Biden was almost always sure to draw an equivalency with anti-Muslim sentiment.
«In recent years, too much hate has given too much oxygen, fueling racism, the rise of antisemitism, Islamophobia right here in America,» Biden said, days after the war broke out, in a prime-time address from the White House. He added: «We can’t stand by and stand silent when this happens. We must, without equivocation, denounce antisemitism. We must also, without equivocation, denounce Islamophobia.»
Biden added during a Human Rights Campaign event in October 2023: «We have to reject hate in everything, because history has taught us again and again, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, they’re all connected. Hate toward one group left unanswered opens the door for more hate toward more groups, more often, regularly.»
Instances of antisemitism spiked to new highs last year, with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) finding in a new report that there were 9,354 antisemitic incidents in 2024, a 5% increase from 2023 and a staggering 926% increase since it began tracking such data in 1979.
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Former President Joe Biden speaks at a news conference on the final days of office. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
The war in Israel initially fanned the flames of antisemitism on campuses in the form of protests, menacing graffiti and students reporting that they felt as if it was «open season for Jews on our campuses.» The protests heightened to the point that Jewish students at some schools, including Columbia University, were warned to leave campus for their own safety.
Agitators and student protesters flooded college campuses nationwide last school year to protest the war, which also included spiking instances of antisemitism and Jewish students publicly speaking out that they did not feel safe on some campuses.
Protesters on Columbia University’s campus in New York City, for example, took over the school’s Hamilton Hall building, while schools such as UCLA, Harvard and Yale worked to clear spiraling student encampments where protesters demanded their elite schools completely divest from Israel.
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Anti-Israel protesters link arms on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 6, 2024, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)
As the protests hit a fever pitch last year, Biden again equated antisemitism with Islamophobia, even though it was clear that Jews were the group being targeted with harassment and violence.
«There should be no place on any campus, no place in America for antisemitism or threats of violence against Jewish students. There is no place for hate speech or violence of any kind, whether it’s antisemitism, Islamophobia, or discrimination against Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans,» Biden said from the White House in May 2024 as the protests on college campuses continued.
«It’s simply wrong. There is no place for racism in America.»
Biden faced condemnation from conservatives and other critics for not simply denouncing antisemitism as Jews in the U.S. faced protests and instances of antisemitism.
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«At a time when no college campus is on lockdown over Islamophobia, Joe Biden felt the need to spend as much time in his speech denouncing Islamophobia and ‘discrimination against Arab Americans’ as he did antisemitism. He is never able to just call out antisemitism,» radio host Erick Erickson commented on X in May 2024 as campus protests against Israel raged.

Anti-Israel protesters rally outside of New York University’s campus in New York City on May 3, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
«Biden repeats his both-sideisms,» veteran James Hutton wrote last year of Biden’s previous comments. «Only the Jewish students are being violated. Biden knows that, but he really wants those votes in Michigan.»
«Biden is incapable of simply condemning antisemitism. Yet another equivocation. This administration is an embarrassment,» Kerry Rom, deputy communications director for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote on X last year.
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Family and friends gather outside Congregation Beth Torah after a funeral for Sarah Milgrim, a staffer at the Israeli Embassy who was killed outside a Washington Jewish museum, May 27, 2025, in Overland Park, Kansas. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
This year, the Trump administration is cracking down on antisemitism and attacks on American Jews, which were underscored by a shooting that left a Jewish couple dead on the streets of Washington, D.C., last month outside of a Jewish museum, as well as a terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, last Sunday when an Egyptian national identified as Mohamed Sabry Soliman allegedly hurled Molotov cocktails at people participating in a solidarity event for Israeli hostages still in Hamas captivity.

Boulder firebomb attack and suspect Mohamed Sabry Soliman (Storyful/KDVR)
Soliman’s charging documents stated that he «traveled to Boulder, Colorado, in his vehicle with the Molotov cocktails and threw two of the cocktails at individuals participating in a pro-Israel gathering. He also stated that he picked up gas at a gas station on the way to Boulder. He stated that he wanted to kill all Zionist people and wished they were all dead.»
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Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro – the Keystone State’s third Jewish governor – faced his own instance of antisemitism when a suspect set fire to the governor’s residence while he and his family were asleep on the first night of Passover.

President Donald Trump’s administration has taken steps to crack down on antisemitism in the U.S. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Donald Trump meanwhile, signed an executive order on «Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism» in January as his administration launched its crackdown on antisemitism. While federal law enforcement officials have arrested individuals allegedly tied to the widespread anti-Israel protests last year, the White House has threatened to end federal funding to universities that allow violent anti-Israel protests and is investigating immigration status of those accused of leading campus protests or carrying out antisemitic attacks.
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El atentado contra Miguel Uribe agudiza el temor en Colombia a menos de un año de las elecciones presidenciales

Tras el atentado a balazos contra el senador y precandidato presidencial Miguel Uribe Turbay, el fantasma de las épocas más oscuras de magnicidios y atentados sobrevuela Colombia.
El ataque causó una enorme conmoción en un país que está atravesado por una creciente polarización y una gran tensión derivada del continuo enfrentamiento entre el gobierno de Gustavo Petro y la oposición liberal y de derecha.
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El atentado contra el senador y precandidato del Partido del Centro Democrático (derecha) se produjo a menos de un año de las elecciones presidenciales del 31 de mayo de 2026 y a nueve meses de los comicios legislativos de marzo de ese mismo año.
“Ha vuelto a aparecer el recuerdo de la época de los atentados y asesinatos políticos, particularmente de las elecciones de 1990 en la que tres candidatos presidenciales fueron asesinados. Hoy no estamos en esta situación. No sabemos cuáles son los móviles de este atentado. Pero es cierto que esto sucede en un momento político tenso entre el gobierno y la oposición», dijo a TN el analista Yann Basset, profesor de Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad del Rosario de la capital colombiana.
En esa campaña fueron asesinados el comunista Jaime Pardo Leal, el liberal Luis Carlos Galán y el izquierdista Bernardo Jaramillo. Además, el país estuvo atravesado por un período de atentados con bomba y asesinatos políticos en el marco de una guerra entre el narcotráfico y el Estado.
Miguel Uribe Turbay, durante un acto el 23 de noviembre de 2024. (Foto: EFE/Carlos Artega).
Qué está pasando en Colombia
La tensión política es hoy muy fuerte en Colombia. Antes del atentado, Petro había anunciado que decretaría la celebración de una consulta popular sobre su ambiciosa reforma laboral, ignorando el dictamen del Senado que en mayo rechazó la convocatoria de esa iniciativa.
El clima es de absoluta confrontación. El presidente acusó a la oposición de impulsar un golpe de Estado para sacarlo del poder e incluso denunció un plan para acabar con su vida.
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Petro ha endurecido en los últimos meses su discurso contra los dirigentes opositores, a los que calificó de “fascistas”, “asesinos”, “nazis”, “golpistas” y hasta “ratas de alcantarilla”. También llamó “hijo de puta” al presidente del Senado, Efraín Cepeda, por obstaculizar su llamado a referéndum por su reforma laboral.
“Aquí hay un debate político irrespetuoso impulsado por Petro, en un contexto de marcada violencia verbal y ataques sistemáticos contra la oposición”, opinó a TN la analista colombiana Natalia Morales.
Desde esa misma oposición se ha intentado mostrar a Petro como un adicto a las drogas después de la acusación en ese sentido lanzada por su propio excanciller Álvaro Leyva. La denuncia está siendo investigada por el Congreso.
El presidente Gustavo Petro habla durante una ceremonia militar el viernes 6 de junio de 2025, en Bogotá, Colombia. (AP Foto/Iván Valencia)
“Ahora no son narcos matando gente para evitar su extradición a Estados Unidos. Aquí la trama es política, entre los liderazgos políticos. Los ánimos de sectores radicales se activan cuando ven un excesivo ambiente de tensión que ya trasgredió las normas básicas de respeto. Esto va a cambiar el tono de la campaña. La gente no quiere violencia”, afirmó Morales.
Basset dijo que hoy más que nunca es necesario ser prudente. “Es cierto que en el país hay un auge de la violencia vinculada a los grupos armados desde la ruptura de las negociaciones entre el gobierno y el ELN (Ejército de Liberación Nacional). Pero no sabemos si ese atentado estuvo vinculado a eso”, señaló.
Para el analista, es necesario ahora bajar la tensión política a menos de un año de las elecciones presidenciales.
Quién es el autor intelectual del atentado
Un adolescente de 15 años fue detenido como autor del atentado a balazos perpetrado el sábado en Bogotá.
Pero nadie duda de que hay una mente detrás del ataque. Más de 100 investigadores de la policía están buscando a los autores intelectuales del intento de asesinato. “Todas las hipótesis están abiertas”, dijo Petro. De hecho, la investigación comenzó con los escoltar del legislador.
Uribe, de 39 años y nieto del expresidente Julio César Turbay Ayala, es un fuerte crítico de Petro, de la izquierda y de las guerrillas y grupos narco que operan en Colombia.
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