In European capitals, urgent questions about security appear on at least three fronts at the same time since the dramatic rupture last Friday between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelinski: How to provide support for the war to Ukraine, preserve the United States concerned, and make sure that any peace agreement with Russia comes with strong security guarantees.
Analysts argue that the need for Europe to do to defend itself and its neighbors is a warning bell that was ringing and underestimating – if not since the Crimea invaded in Russia in 2014, then since the first administration of President Trump, when he accused Europe rich in converting to the American military.
Now, when the United States retracts its long role as a size for European security, the continent faces a “crossroads in history” and must take the initiative to make peace in Ukraine.
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European leaders are trying to intensify their defense of Kiev and adapt to the security rules after President Donald Trump reprimanded the President of Ukraine.
He added: “The United Kingdom is ready to support this with shoes on the ground and aircraft in the air,” he added, as part of an attempt to create a “alliance of those wishing” to help protect the country that was torn by the war that Russia has shown three years ago.
Ukraine armament to put it in strength position
Ukraine is still in urgent need of weapons, and the width of the United States is declining. Monday evening, the White House It is said The parked military aid to Kiev has stopped “to ensure a contribution to a solution,” according to an official at the White House. Almost two months have passed since the Ministry of Defense announced a new military assistance package for Kiev – not since President Trump took office.
“We must quickly review Europe,” said Ursula von der Lin on Sunday.
Mr. Starmer explained a plan to support European security and maintain a aid tap to Kiev flowing with a UK loan using profits from the seized Russian assets.
“A number of countries” said on Sunday to increase their defensive spending.
However, these pledges – which were pressured by successive American departments – also presented restrictions on Europe’s capabilities to cooperate in things such as weapons production, especially with Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Urban, who works as a spoiler within the European Union. Mr. Urban, who is compatible with Russian President Vladimir Putin, was not at a meeting on Sunday and called for direct negotiations between the European Union and Russia.
Other complications come from Elon Musk, who is now a close consultant for Mr. Trump, who expressed on Saturday his support for the United States that leaves NATO in a post on the social media platform X.
“However,” Europe usually finds a way to settle and find more money, “says Nick Whitney, who served as the first CEO of the European Union’s European Defense Agency in Brussels.
However, he adds: “The most difficult thing to work is what it actually means in terms of organization for Europeans to place a decent deterrent screen against the Russians without full American participation.”
The European Union will continue to divide the security deficiency on the continent at an “extraordinary summit” on Thursday, which will turn into how to simplify missile production and create integrated European air defenses. Also on the agenda: Trying to formulate an auxiliary package for Ukraine requires the relaxation of the European Union rules to allow members to spend more security.
The idea of this independent European defense capabilities is a major transformation in the continent’s historical approach to security.
“The natural thing for 80 years when he faces a geopolitical problem is to manual with Brussels and be informed of what to do by Americans, which NATO aims to,” says Mr. Whitney, a senior political colleague of the European Council for Foreign Relations.
“We must tire ourselves to the fact that Donald Trump no longer honors the mutual defense commitment in NATO unconditionally,” pointed out the new German conservative adviser Friedrich Mirz – an amazing statement from a candidate who carried his ability to enhance the Atlantic relations.
This will necessarily include discussion, also, on how to replace the American nuclear umbrella on which Europe has long relied. French President Emmanuel Macron presented his country’s nuclear capabilities to the continental defense.
Reforming the rift between Trump and Zelinski
In the wake of the controversial White House meeting with Mr. Zelinski on Friday, senior Trump administration officials said they might cancel even the country’s indirect military support, which includes intelligence exchange and the training of Ukrainian forces.
At the same time, Defense Minister Beit Higsith It is said Electronic leadership ordered us to suspend offensive operations against Russia.
Mr. Starmer sought assurances about Mr. Trump’s commitment to Ukraine in London, saying that he had spoken to Mr. Trump on Saturday. “[I] He will not go on this way [to a peace plan] If I don’t think it has a chance. “
This opportunity includes locking the US support for the ceasefire deal, which can include some security guarantees, because Europe does not have the forces levels to support the peacekeeping agreement on its own.
President Macron took a stab in the homogeneity of the flowing feathers on Sunday to obtain Mr. Trump and Mr. Zellinski talking again. He said: “I think that besides the tense nerves, everyone needs to calm respect and gratitude, so that we can proceed with the significantly, because what is at the test is very important.”
Mr. Zelinski seemed to attack the expansion. “Of course we understand the importance of America,” said in a video on Sunday night. “There was no one day we didn’t feel grateful.”
For his part, it seemed that Mr. Trump, in a social publication, actually during the weekend, was repeating his interest in saving a metal deal that was supposed to be signed on Friday before the White House dust was delayed.
The deal can provide economic security guarantees for Ukraine with which US officials have argued, may prove its effectiveness, such as American forces on the ground.
“Once American companies have mining operations in Ukraine, Putin will not be able to attack without leading to huge international consequences,” Mr. Trump argued with social media.
But by Monday, President Trump complained, once again, through the social truth, that Mr. Zelinski “did not want to have peace as long as he had supported America.” “They frankly stated that they cannot do the mission without the United States,” European leaders adds.
Security guarantees to prevent Putin from breaking promises
One of the main security guarantees on the road can participate in the ceasefire deal in Ukraine, European peacekeepers, which was already volunteered by the British Mr. Starmer to contribute.
Mr. Starmer said that a number of other countries committed on Sunday to send the peacekeeping forces to Ukraine as well.
Mr. Trump told the correspondents last week that when he “specifically asked” Mr. Putin during a phone call about such forces in Ukraine, the Russian president had no “problem with that.”
The Kremlin contrasts with this description, saying that these Africa peace will be “of course unacceptable to us.”
Rob Potter, a visiting colleague at the European Studies Center at Kiev University, says Mr. Putin has no great interest in ending the war. “He believes that he can get more if the Americans stop weapons and hide to give up the sanctions.”
Mr. Potter adds that the Ukrainians have largely abandoned the possibility of more American military aid as Europe is preparing to pick up the recession, but they hope that Mr. Trump will maintain US sanctions in place.
Currently, the Kremlin enjoys Ukrainian American drama.
A Russian spokesman congratulated the President and Vice President of America on the disability of “hitting” Mr. Zellinski, as President Trump and Vice President JD VANCE rid him of the style of the Al -Awat team in front of the collected press. She said, “It was a miracle of restraint.”
Editor’s note: This story, which was originally published on March 3, was updated by the news of the Trump administration that stops military aid to Ukraine.