Pushed by its intended American ally to the third row, Volodimir Zelenski has contemplated in Munich How the new Donald Trump regime is about to resolve with Russia the fate of Ukraine. In a penultimate attempt he has grabbed the European allywhich for its part still does not know what place will occupy in this new wild world of giants and areas of influence. In Munich, the city where Hitler’s appease was signed, time has accelerated and in a few hours they seem to have spent years: Trump’s special envoy says he does not see a place for Europe at the Ukraine Peace Boardthe head of the Take He recommends leaving the regrets and hugging the production of weapons … and the Ukrainian leader – the same as a month before the great invasion he refused to believe that Russia was going to launch a massive attack that would reach Kiev – projected to his voice More serious before an auditorium of European leaders and officials to warn them that, as in the twentieth century, they can be the following.
Disappointed with the freehand of the US, Zelenski wants to trust European events. In his speech at the Security Conference, he asked Europe to form their own joint armed forces, urging the leaders of the continent to awaken before the war drums and “decide their own future.” The Armed Forces of Ukraine alone are not enough to maintain the security of the second largest country in Europe.
The US has openly said that it does not want to continue involved in the safety of the old continent. Zelenski went to the auditorium: “I urge them to act for their own good.” Some, he said, can be frustrated with Brussels, “but if it is not with Brussels it will be with Moscow.” The Ukrainian leader warned that war could go beyond the Ukrainian borders. Therefore, he asked European leaders: if Russia launches an attack or a false flag operation … “Are your armies ready?” Continuing with the notices, he warned that kyiv has intelligence services information that clearly points to Russia to send troops to Belarus this summer. The last time that happened Moscow tried to hit kyiv.
“Our army is not enough, we need their support.” That is why he pointed out that “The time has come to create a European army”because if Ukraine “does not belong to NATO, conditions must be created to build another NATO in Ukraine.”
Senior US and Russian officials will meet next week in Saudi Arabia To discuss one possible summit between presidents Trump and Putin. According to sources from the Bloomberg agency, negotiations between the leaders of both countries are planned for the end of February. The crossroads for kyiv is how to conserve US support without giving up all the Russian claims Trump is validating. With a bitter point, Zelenski lamented that “NATO’s most influential member seems to be Putin.”
The Ukrainian leader wants “Paz in 2025”but he believes that it will be “dangerous” if Trump meets Putin before him. Cornered between the Russian claims and the concessions of its main partner, he added: “We cannot agree on a high fire without real security guarantees.” Zelenski did not want to sign with Washington the agreement that would have granted half of the Ukraine mineral reserves to the United States. “He felt that he was being asked unreasonably to sign something that he had not had the opportunity to read,” one of those attending the meeting told the Reuters agency. Ukraine will make your own proposal.
All Zelenski warnings reach the ears of European leaders when Washington’s new disruptive attitude is still digging in issues such as democracy and the future of Ukraine. The sensation in Munich is that the Trump administration continues to subvirt, at cruise speed before serving a month in power, transatlantic ties.
RUTTE: More weapons and less complaints
The NATO general secretary, Mark Ruttedemanded the countries of the European Union to stop complaining about the positions of Russia and the United States about the resolution of the conflict in Ukraine: “Present specific proposals and ideas, increase the expense in defense, instead of complaining about their possible absence of the negotiating table “.
Rutte aspires to present the expense in defense as an opportunity and not as a setback. That is why he pointed out that the increase in spending will solve “a huge problem”, the lack of production of the industrial defense base, and would represent benefits for all the parties involved. “It is a good business for our American partners. If we increase our expense, it entails dollars for the US economy.” For all this, he encouraged NATO European partners “to join” future debates about this issue “with concrete proposals.” Rutte also insisted that Washington is still committed to NATO, despite the recent comments of the US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegsethabout what European allies “cannot assume that the presence of the United States will last forever.”
In Munich it has been clear that The US does not want to continue in Europe and that he does not believe that Europe should be by his side on the command bridge. Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, declared in Munich that it is not clear that Europeans will have a place at the negotiating table when a high fire agreement is discussed between Russia, the United States and Ukraine. Kellogg, addressing the audience at the Munich Security Conference, said there will be “two parts and an intermediary on the table”: Russia, Ukraine and the United States, which implicitly renounces the kyiv ally role.