Trump humiliated European leaders. The response was not late to arrive

The pursuits at his deputy JD Security Conference. Vance – in a key speech in the Central Hall of the “Birder Hoff” – in European governments, comparing them to the fascist regimes that dominated the continent in the past, and Donald Trump’s decision completely bypass Europe on Ukraine, shocked the continent and united the lines, even if. “Concerned, shocked and frustrated. European government representatives return from Munich with a feeling that they returned from three days that changed the world,” the La Mond newspaper said on Monday. Throughout the continent, media outlets cited the concise remarks of Ukrainian President Volodimir Zalansky regarding the actual end of the transatlantic alliance: “The days the US runs in Europe only because it always did it.”

The episode is now formulating peace of peace with European soldiers, military aid to Ukraine, requirements for involvement in any future security arrangement and even a discussion of the establishment of an European army. “Without Ukraine and without Europe, there will be no real negotiations, and there will be no long-term peace,” the union council’s president, Antonio Cuch, tried to make it clear.

These steps on the security level are in the background of a trade war that has already begun US and Europe, which includes steel and aluminum (25% starting next month), vehicles on vehicles (starting from April), a threat of offsetting European VAT on American companies and a host of steps designed To benefit the American economy at this account and reduce their trade deficit.

Closer to Moscow than to Brussels

Three years after the war began in Ukraine, after receiving millions of refugees, tens of billions of euros had allocated military equipment and more so with financial assistance, Europe is in shock because it seems that the starting point for Trump’s negotiations is much closer to Moscow than to Brussels, or Kiev. Thus regarding the expression of US Defense Minister Pitt the jar that Ukraine will never join NATO, so about the hinted territorial concessions; the same is true of the required security arrangements, which should prevent Waldmir Putin to take a similar step, and not act to irritate the Russian appetite to obtain additional chunks from the covenant- Former councils by military means.

Trump transmits that he “does not” for “his military weakness, but in financial calculations, the continent seems to have overtook the US with help with Ukraine. European states have so far issued about 70 billion in financial and humanitarian support to Ukraine, and another 62 billion euro In military support, according to data from Kil’s Economic Research Institute, which has monitored the data for the past three years.

This is one of the reasons why Europeans are now required to be involved. At the summit that began on Monday at the Elysees Palace, they should formulate a proposal for the establishment of European peace power, which will retire in “second line”, far from the front, to ascertain the agreement but not to risk surfing for a regional war. “Any security architecture related to Ukraine should be acceptable to Europe,” Macron said. France and Britain support the sending soldiers for such a force. Poland is opposed to this. Germany is on the fence.

The leaders also discussed the European Samson Fund, a project that should bounce not only the European security expenditure to the level that can handle Russia, but also to create a consolidation in the European industry that will streamline. So far, Germany has objected to the move. Now – due to Munich’s market 2025 – it may remove its resistance. Even the veteran project for the establishment of a general -European army (PESCO) – more than an ideal framework and organizational framework at the current stage than a concrete proposal for the actual union of armies – may rise to discussions, according to reports.

Working quickly to formulate agreements

In order to formulate quick consent, Macron worked quickly to convene only German leaders, Poland, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Denmark, with the EU leaders and NATO Secretary. “Everything happens so quickly, and if there is something the EU has known, it is its slowness,” a European diplomat who was at the Munich Conference for “Financial Times.” Now they are trying to accelerate the process, and the very conference is not unusual.

The UK leader Starmer Wall is also expected to attend a meeting before traveling to Washington. He said he intended to serve as a “bridge” between Washington and the EU. The British leader did not spare superlatives about being the conversations a water affair for Europe: “This is a moment of time in our national security generation …

“Place to Europe at the Discussion Table”

Meanwhile, the White House comes contradictory messages. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said Ukraine would actually be invited to negotiations, contrary to the things that senior officials who were supposed to meet this week in Saudi Arabia with the Russian negotiation team. When Trump was asked during a meeting with the press if he would allow Europe to purchase American weapons in favor of Ukraine, he replied positively.

Behind the scenes, the Europeans draw a certain encouragement for the United States to routine a letter to six key countries where it asks how many forces will be willing to assign a peace agreement in Ukraine, how much money they intend to spend on Ukraine and financial support. ” In conversations or not, “Polish Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorsky said,” the demand we will be involved in the future will require it. ”

NATO Secretary -General Mark Rota Remez that if Europe is interested in “a place at the discussion table”, “she must spend more on security, especially about Ukraine.” In fact, Europe sees conversations, even more than the future of Russia, a test that Shisman for a series of states – from Georgia outside the union to Romania in it – if the union is a power to join him or a body struggling for his place in the world.