{"id":49437,"date":"2025-05-28T15:30:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=49437"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:30:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:30:35","slug":"us-and-russia-clash-in-public-as-the-ukraine-war-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/us-and-russia-clash-in-public-as-the-ukraine-war-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"US and Russia Clash in Public as the Ukraine War Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and Russia quarreled in public on Wednesday over the intensifying Ukraine war after US President Donald Trump warned that President Vladimir Putin was &#8220;playing with fire&#8221; and Moscow massed 50,000 troops near a Ukrainian region.<\/p>\n<p>While world leaders bicker over the prospects for peace, the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two is heating up fast: swarms of drones are being launched by both sides while Russia is advancing at key points along the front.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in a post on Truth Social, said that Putin was playing with fire and cautioned that &#8220;REALLY BAD&#8221; things would have happened already to Russia if it was not for Trump himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Vladimir Putin doesn&#8217;t realize is that if it weren&#8217;t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened in Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He&#8217;s playing with fire,&#8221; Trump said in a Truth Social post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Top Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev, a former president, dismissed Trump&#8217;s criticism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Regarding Trump&#8217;s words about Putin &#8216;playing with fire&#8217; and &#8216;really bad things&#8217; happening to Russia. I only know of one REALLY BAD thing \u2014 WWIII. I hope Trump understands this!&#8221; Medvedev wrote in English on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States and Russia quarreled in public on Wednesday over the intensifying Ukraine war after US President Donald Trump warned that President Vladimir Putin was &#8220;playing with fire&#8221; and Moscow massed 50,000 troops near a Ukrainian region. While world leaders bicker over the prospects for peace, the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49443,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49437\/revisions\/49443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}