Impotent anger. Create European leaders.
US President Donald Trump triggered the anger with a menu of insults and lies via Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensskyy.
Make your choice: he is a non -elected dictator. Ukraine started the bloody war with Russia. Zelenskyy had better acting or losing his country.
“It is our security he endangers,” said Jean-Yves Le Drian, a former French Foreign Minister, to France-Info radio and referred to Trump and Europe. “Since its power in power, all of his swipes have been unique to the historical friends of the United States.”
Still anger that was buried by Czech Interior Minister Vit Rakusan on social media; “I’m afraid we have never been so close to Orwell’s war, peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. ‘”
A big blow was to refuse to invite Ukraine and Europeans to talk to Russia about Ukraine in Saudi Arabia this week.
After days of tense relationships and the verbal sparring, the White House drives Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to provide US access to the critical minerals of Ukraine as a repayment for billions for war aid.
The Czechs have a bitter experience in diplomacy with a closed door. In Munich in 1938, Hitler harassed the leaders of the UK and France to agree to build up Czechoslovakia, while the Czechoslovak representative was forced to sit outside in the anteroom.
“O nas, bez nas” – about us, without us. It became a Czech slogan for bullying with a large power and now found an echo in the comments of the European leader and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau zu Trump and the Russians.
But all of this anger is impotent – and for this impotence, Europeans have to take the whole guilt.
European inactivity
There were many warnings, starting with the angry speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Munich Security Conference in 2007. Seven years later, his soldiers confiscated the Crimea from Ukraine. And in 2022 he ordered the full invasion of Ukraine.
The Europeans first reacted with sanctions, then more sanctions and finally money and weapons. But always much less than the Ukrainians.
Now, when Trump openly openly openly to Putin against Ukraine, the European leaders have met again at France’s request for a table in the Élysée Palace in Paris.
“France has said since the 1960s that Europe is on its own feet and does not have to bow to the USA,” said Phillips P. O’Brien in a recent podcast. He is a historian and professor of strategic studies at Saint Andrew’s University in Scotland.
“But it turns out.”
After the meeting of the Élysée Palace, a country announced that it doubled its defense budget in the next two years. But that was little Denmark.
The British Prime Minister Keir Starrer said that his country was ready to send peace troops to Ukraine in the event of a deal. But he was alone. Even Macron said the time was not correct.
The European heads of state and government met in Paris on Monday to donate to the ongoing Ukraine secretary when the United States progresses the peace talks with Russia.
Instead, the answer would be…. More money. Europeans would loosen the strict rules of the European Union for deficit editions to buy more weapons and send more help to Ukraine.
With regard to French actions that correspond to Macron’s words, the government’s defense spending is hardly 2.1 percent of GDP. And his government does not urge the French National Assembly, which is currently not accompanied by the French National Assembly.
Germany, the largest country in Europe, only spent 1.5 percent of GDP for the military, hardly more than Canada. His managers are employed in an election campaign, and the man who is widely expected of the next Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, wants to reduce the equivalent of $ 150 billion from the state budget budget. The Ukraine war is not its priority.
Or most of Europe, according to the former French President François Hollande.
“The great misunderstanding between Europe and Putin is that Europe does not want to go to war,” he said in the latest CBC documentation Putin’s journey. “For Europe, the war in the 20th century has a terrible story and there is no reason to think today in the war. We are peaceful nations that do not like death. For Putin, death is part of the action.”
Trump’s “disinformation bubble”
The main exception is Poland. It fears Putin and Russia, with a good historical reason – the Soviet Union set up it with the Nazis in 1939. As a result, their armed forces are the largest in Western Europe and the defense accounts for 3.8 percent of GDP.
Even before Trump’s youngest commented comments, Poland Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorski had a strong message for the US President, who was sent at the Munich Security Conference on February 15.
“If you allow Putin to vase Ukraine, this sends a message to China that you can restore what you regard as a renegade province.
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Nevertheless, Pola’s Prime Minister also rejected every idea of sending troops to Ukraine. Instead, Sikorski will soon go to Washington to persuade the US government to keep all troops in Poland and the rest of Europe.
The anger and misfortune of the Ukrainians and Europeans hardly vibrate in the Trump government. You know who is to blame: It is Ukrainian President Zelenskyy because he said that Trump could be a prisoner of a Russian disinformation bubble.
Trump was also angry that Zelenskyy had refused to sign a big business that enable the unreserved US access to the Ukrainian mineral resources as a repayment for US weapons used in the defense of Ukraine. The American security advisor Mike Waltz had a message for Zelenskyy: “Tones it, look hard views and sign the deal.”
Words that the Canadian government and others could soon hear.
