The American side deliberately orchestrated the confrontation during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House, Friedrich Merz, the head of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the likely chancellor, said on March 3.
“It was not a spontaneous reaction to interventions by Zelensky, but obviously a manufactured escalation in this meeting in the Oval Office,” Merz said at a press conference in Hamburg.
The visit was expected to mark the signing of a long-debated agreement between Ukraine and the U.S. on jointly developing Ukraine’s mineral resources.
With the growing anti-intellectualism in the US, scientists and would be stem would have to go to other countries for their research opportunities, it’s already bad that you have to chase grant money in the US for research, and there is very little support for undergrads to become scientist in general, other than “hope you can find wet lab work somewhere”.