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WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s sudden shift on Ukraine has shook the translatable coalition in its center. Now European leaders are crossing the same sea that they are hitting it from the beach.
French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Kerr Star will hold a separate meeting with Trump in the White House this week to try to persuade him to stay with Kiev. But in the European capitals, the fears are on the rise that the bonds connected with the ruins of World War II are on the way to the end because Trump talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In Trump, many people see a president who has abandoned the traditional American ideology about the rules -based global poem in favor of a nationalist, great power game with Moscow and Beijing. This has led to panic on a continent that has relied on US security assurance for 80 years.
“Europeans are running their hair with a fire,” said Maxberg Mann, director of Europe, Russia and Eurasia program at Washington -based Strategic and International Studies.
On his own, Trump insists he only wants peace in Ukraine. “I think President Putin and President Zelannsky will have to come together. Because you know what? We want to quit killing millions, “Trump told reporters at the Oval Office on Friday.
But talk about Trump’s Kremlin talks about Ukraine.
It has also reinforced the suspicion that Trump has been effectively plugging decades of US support for Europe for decades. In Trump’s view, European officials are afraid, the United States, Russia and China will instead take care of their area of influence near home.
“You know, this does not affect the United States. This is on the other side of the sea, “Trump added about the Ukraine war on Friday. Even in his first term he threatened that he would get out of the NATO military alliance and questioned whether America Europe Why do I spend huge amounts of money on keeping an army?
Trump’s meetings with Macron on Monday and the star can be tested on Thursday. Macron said he would ask Trump not to be “weak” on Ukraine. Both Britain and France have offered to send a peacekeeper in the event of an agreement to end the war, but the star has called for the United States “back stop”.
Trump accused the two leaders of “nothing” to end the Ukraine war in the past three years. Many European residents are also thinking that writing can be on the wall.
“We now experience a hard and extremely dangerous moment when both parts of the translatrantic community, a conservative political action conference (CPAC), told AFP at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC (CPAC) Near Washington. “) Near Washington.
For the Nigel Gold Davis, a senior fellow from Russia and Eurasia, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based in London, was an “unprecedented translanatic crisis”. “By talking about European leaders with Russia and interfering with European politics, the United States is not only suffering from it, but is interrupting Europe, but is interrupting Europe,” he said in a comment.
Now the question is, after talking about Europe – years, how much they need to take more responsibility for their security umbrella in the event of a rain day – now it will happen.
Denmark’s Foreign Minister Lars Lok Rasmussen told AFP on Wednesday that Europe had a lot to do to defend itself, but also to support Ukraine. Because we are in a very critical period in world history.
The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kalas called on the United States on Tuesday not to run into the “nets” set by Russia because it tries to divide the West. But Analyst Bergman’s LT, it can also be a wake -up call for Europe.
He said, “I think that what Europe is now being asked is not just a bit more – but it’s clearly to take effective steps for Europe by which it is clearly as a superpower , Will emerge. “