GENEVA — President Donald Trump will touch down in France on Monday for a summit meeting with allies who are at odds with him over a pair of wars: one they don’t believe he should have started, and another they want him to do more to stop.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.Trump will spend two days at the Group of Seven (G7) meeting of advanced democracies in the resort town of Evian-les-Bains, in which both the Iran war and Russia-Ukraine conflict figure to loom large.After launching an attack against Iran on Feb.28, Trump has complained that European allies haven’t done enough to advance the American war aims.Mocking British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump said in the spring: “This is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with.” For their part, Europeans have objected that Trump didn’t bother to consult them beforehand about a war they argue was avoidable.French President Emmanuel Macron, the summit host, has described Trump’s military assault on Iran as “outside the framework of international law.”Amid these tensions, Trump and other G7 participants are scheduled to meet with Middle East leaders as he works toward a final peace deal with Iran.
On Tuesday, Trump and his counterparts will sit down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ways to end that conflict on fair terms.Trump famously told Zelenskyy in a contentious Oval Office meeting last year that he “doesn’t have the cards,” pressing him to agree to a ceasefire.Since then, Zelenskyy’s military has gained traction against Russia through its use of a sophisticated drone arsenal that has confounded Russian forces.
Whatever cards Zelenskyy held in 2025, he holds better ones now, analysts, European leaders and some Republican lawmakers say.Ukraine’s resilience gives Trump more leverage in telling Russian President Vladimir Putin that he needs to withdraw troops and end the fighting, they s...