Trump is forcing Europe to a reckoning on Ukraine

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If the Sarbon University in Paris was a great speech distributed last week in the 19th century, the American Ian Tihasik Tihasothy Snyder Snyder had this message for Europeans: If you have a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine, “You should throw everything in your Ukraine – EU membership, you will do anything in the shadow of the war. “

Emanuel Macron does not need to be confirmed. In Europe, the conversation on the Russian war in Ukraine has been brutally transferred. The opening of Donald Trump’s White House and inaugurating a discussion of Ukrainian President Vloadimir Jelnsky has created a new, more unstable situation. Supporting Ukraine for “it takes” for almost three years, the mantra of allies will lose credibility when the main partner leaves the chorus. Wishing to end Trump’s war, put a huge challenge to how he wants to do it while keeping Europeans in the dark ContinentThe

The worst nightmare of the French President, sharing by many parts of him, is a Russian-American deal that was made on the heads of Ukrainian and Europeans-the American diplomatic tradition that could be fair, predicted Trump. Macron first won while a meeting between Jensky and the then President Trump, who was elected president of the newly recovered Notre-Dem Cathedral in December. This conversation obviously helped to realize Trump that it would take more than 24 hours to solve the problem. European officials also assured that the US President has so far avoided the haircut about-Ukraine, such as Gaza. They believe that his line has not yet been set, because Russian President Vladimir Putin still thinks he can win the war.

A line they know to be clean, but American isolation. No need to quit NATO – Trump just doesn’t want his country to be burdened in the war of Ukraine. If Europe wants a seat in the discussion table, it must be something so that its interests are not only the terms of the contract, it is also taken into consideration. A deal that may look good for Trump because it stops “young, beautiful people” if it does not prevent Putin from attacking Ukraine again, it will not be a good deal for Europe. From a European point of view, a strong protection guarantee for Kiev is therefore the key to an agreement.

These places where they have become painful for countries that outsource their security for decades Ours And now shamelessly understand that this guarantee is gone. According to a European official, a “very dynamic debate” is underway, what protection guarantee will be necessary. Among the most determined countries of this debate – which include Poland, Baltics, Sweden and Finland – France rally in a new, unfamiliar mode, though they are trying to play a top role in their own cards by keeping others in different pieces and keeping different pieces of puzzle together.

If needed outside the EU, new formats such as France, Germany and Poland are added to Italy and the United Kingdom in the “Wamer Triangle” of Poland. A year ago, Western reacted to his wonderful reaction for “boots on the ground” to put in Western, Macron, who is probably aware of his weak position in European scenes because of his domestic political and economic travel, work to regain his partners’ trust The

Nevertheless, France is in a single position when an American president is supposed to face who can behave more as opposition than allies. For some Europeans, especially for those who face Russia, Ukraine’s chances of falling are a terrible potential, because they will return to line themselves. The tempt to try to keep American security at any price will therefore be opposed to the attempt to build a strong European defense power. France does not share the same sensitivity because it feels protected by its own independent atomic resistance.

Snyder in Echo on the Sornbon on the NATO Secretary-General Mark Route, who warned the European Parliament members last month that if EU member states did not heal their defense expenses, only options should be learned Russian or go to New Zealand. Holding between Putin and Trump, Europeans have finally faced the reality that has finally tried to escape.