The European Union's top foreign policymakers on Friday, the Trump administration's clear willingness to give Russian leader Putin much of what he hopes in Ukraine, even before negotiations to end the Three Years' War. , received a dull evaluation. .
“That's alleviating,” official Kaha Karas declared at the Munich Security Conference. “It's never worked out.”
Karas, former Estonian Prime Minister, was the only European diplomat to utter the word “soften,” and in all historic resonances she was one of the few motivated people on record.
It was a near-universal explanation of the Trump administration's confused, often publicly contradictory approach to questions seizing the continent. What kind of peace deals does President Trump have in mind? And will it be done with Putin on the heads of both Ukrainians and Europeans?
After several days of speeches and private meetings in Munich, many officials said they were more confused than before they arrived. A statement has been issued by US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegses in rebuttal to a statement made by Vice President JD Vance about his first international venture since his inauguration in his first efforts in international diplomacy.
And European authorities have made plans to make sure Putin doesn't simply use ceasefires to rebuild his demimated forces simply using ceasefires and return to a few years later. He said he tried to draw a plan to set up and extract it from Trump's national security team. Take the rest of Ukraine.
They also enjoy his negotiation skills in the real estate business, Trump was willing to give up so much leverage before negotiating the fate of 233,000 square miles of Europe's most precious farmland. I said that. A hotbed of technological innovation.
Hundreds of participants from the meeting were jammed into the hotel hall on Friday afternoon, hearing Vance and hoping to address these issues at their much-anticipated address. However, to the surprise of busy policymakers and defence and intelligence news officials, he spoke to European leaders for suppressing Ukrainian right-wing speeches, while also giving a speech by the right-wing speech in the Ukrainian country. He mentioned that it suppressed the
He did not provide a roadmap for negotiations or strategic visions on what Europe should look like after the continent's most devastating war for the first time in 80 years. He also did not promise that Europe or Kiev would be the centre of negotiations on the borders of Ukraine and survival as an independent state.
Later that day, at the end of a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymie Zelensky, and just before returning to Washington, just before boarding Air Force 2, Vance provided a little more vague purpose for the purpose of the upcoming meeting with Russia. .
“We want the war to come to an end, we want the killings to stop, but not the kind of peace that Eastern Europe will try to create conflict in a few years, but durable and enduring. “We want to achieve peace, the road,” he said.
The last phrase was important. Because many European leaders said they were afraid that Trump wanted a deal so badly. And it allows Russia to rebuild its devastated troops and attack Ukraine again. Perhaps later, Moldova could even test NATO in the Baltic countries.
However, Vance biased all questions about whether Russia could hold illegally invaded land. A real country.
“I want to save the options here for negotiators,” Vance said.
He didn't say anything about the timeline of the negotiations or whether he reviewed with Mr Zelensky as expected. That is one of Trump's demands for ongoing support.
Vance may have said little since it appears that Secretary of Defense Hegses gave him so much, then backtracked and blamed the news media for misinterpreting him on Friday. .
On Wednesday, Hegses said it is necessary to understand that Ukrainians will lose most of their country to Russia as part of the reconciliation. He added that if the contract is struck, no US troops will join the peacekeeping forces of Ukrainian territory. It is the Europeans who police ceasefires and formal truces. That position would ensure that if it were attacked, the United States would not be drawn into war to protect NATO allies.
When his comments were ridden throughout Europe and condemned by Zelensky, he declared that he had nothing, and that Trump alone had the power to decide what to decide. . He never spoke of anything Russia might have to give up in negotiations.
Last week, one NATO foreign minister said the allies were told that Ukraine had all the options on the table and that the White House was accepting debate. Now, the issue isn't too clear, especially after Trump spoke to Putin on a phone call earlier this week.
The problem, according to the minister, is that the usual machinery of foreign policy construction has been deliberately broken, and various officials are appealing to Trump from various perspectives. Allies do not have a clear picture of how decisions will be made, the minister said changes over the past 20 years.
And without machines, the allies cannot plan and have strategies, the minister said.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Bearbock said Trump's call with Putin was a surprise to allies, breaking the isolation. “This is not the way other people implement foreign policy, but this is the reality,” she told German public radio.
There is also a growing consensus that Europe should make a strong counter offer to Trump, particularly on support for Ukraine.
“Ukraine has an institution and is resisting invasion,” said Polish Foreign Minister Radoslau Sikorsky. “We have allies that support it, so we need to include it in negotiations that concern it.”
Ukraine is unlikely to survive the Russian attack without US support, Zelensky said in an interview with NBC's “Meeting Kristen Welker.”
“In all difficult circumstances, you have a chance. But we have a lower chance – there are fewer opportunities to survive without US support,” he said in an excerpt released Friday. The full interview will air on Sundays.
Foreign ministers and officials from several European countries, including the UK, France and Germany, held a meeting in Paris on Wednesday night and issued a statement pledging further support for Ukraine.
“We look forward to discussing the future paths with our American allies,” it said. “Ukraine and Europe must be part of the negotiations. Ukraine should be provided with strong security assurances.”
