LONDON: US President Donald Trump said in an interview published Tuesday that Europe was weak and its nations were "decaying," days after the Trump administration issued a strategy paper that indicated that the US should no longer guarantee the continent's security. The president's comments, made in a wide-ranging interview with Politico, widened a dispute between Trump and his European counterparts over Europe's future and how to end Russia's war in Ukraine. Trump said that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, who has rejected parts of a US proposal for a ceasefire, would have to "get on the ball" and start "accepting things." Zelenskyy's army is losing the war, Trump said, suggesting that it was time for him to compromise in the ceasefire talks. Trump's interview was pub

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