Vladimir Putin rides high in front of him Critical US talks Tuesday in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to end the Ukrainian war.
The Donald Trump administration has ended the international isolation of the Russian president, destroyed Western unity on the conflict and was suspicious of the extent to which the United States will go to defend Europe, indicating an amazing shift towards Putin and away from the traditional American allies.
With a wave of conflicting data in their first invasions in Europe, Trump’s assistants also feared that the American president will embrace any deal with Putin – even if it is bad for Ukraine and a continent threatened by its borders again from Russian expansion.
Suggestions that the United States will exclude its European friends from peace talks on Ukraine – despite the demand to provide security guarantees and forces as part of any deal to end the war – too Turned On the continent, with France inviting the main leaders Emergency meeting In Paris on Monday.
Trump also raised fears that Ukraine itself will not be part of the talks that are necessary to stay as a nation after its sovereign lands were invaded by a holistic neighbor who brings war crimes, civil massacre and destruction to its people.
On Sunday, the president raised the possibility of a meeting with Putin “very soon.” “We are moving,” he told reporters in Florida.
After Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski warned of “Meet The Press” from NBC that “he will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia for Ukraine”, Trump made a mysterious confirmation that he was “involved.”
Rubio says the Saudi talks are the first step
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Middle East Envoy Steve Witkev He will head the American delegation For the talks hosted by the Saudis, who are friendly with both Moscow and Trump.
Rubio designed the meeting as a follow -up to Trump phone call Last week with Putin. He said in “Confronting the Nation” on Sunday: “The next few weeks and days will be determined whether it is dangerous or not.” In the end, one phone call does not make peace. One phone call does not solve the complex war like this one. “
Rubio also contradicts the comments of Trump’s Ukraine envoy, Keith Keel, Which said Saturday While Kyiv will participate in peace talks, European countries will not do so. “If it is real negotiations – and we are not present yet – but if that happens, Ukraine will have to participate, because it was the one who has been invaded, and the Europeans will have to participate because they have sanctions against Putin and Russia as well, and they have contributed to this effort.”
The sophisticated American line in the proposed peace agreement shows that it is often wise to exaggerate the early speech of Trump and its subordinates before the essence of their positions is closed. Without designing the new US President to formulate relations with Putin, there was a great hope to end an evil war in the coming months. There seems to be a great room for Ukraine and European states to form negotiations that can be completely successful only with their purchase.
Polish Foreign Minister Radik Sikorsky in Munich said during the weekend that he believed that Trump’s invitation with Putin was wrong since the “justification” of the Russian leader and reduced morale in Ukraine. But he added: “When President Trump says as part of a deal, there must be European forces, he will ask us to ask them to provide it, so sooner or later, we will have to participate.”
However, mixed messages from the administration will support fears that Trump will agree to a deal with Putin, which leads to the health of illegal invasion and will be imposed on Ukraine. While most of the realism of foreign policy accepts that Ukraine will not restore all the lands that Russia seized, Trump was criticized for his throwing through his call with the Russian leader. Defense Minister Hitzisith was also, Who said this is a peace deal It will not include a path to NATO membership in Ukraine and that no forces will participate in the US peace. Some of these statements were later heated by Higseth and other administration officials.
Fears of Trump’s attempt to glowing last week worsened to completely rehabilitate Putin, the accused war criminal, when he promoted Russia’s foreign policy sites instead of the West. For example, it seemed that the president sympathized with Putin’s diocese to invade and called for his return to the G8 group of industrialized countries after Russia was expelled around the inclusion of Crimea in 2014. Trump refused to coordinate the previous administration with Europe on Ukraine and the absence of Kiev’s negotiators from the Saudi talks, it appears It seriously weakens the position of Western negotiation. European officials are likely to be more sympathetic to Ukraine’s views of Trump-thus if they are absent from any large-scale negotiations, Zelinski’s position may diminish.
A A burning attack on European democracy By the Vice President JD Vance at the Munich Security Conference-his decision to meet the extremist AFD leader on the extreme right just a few days before the German elections-the meantime shook European leaders. The speech was a clear sign that the Trump administration intends to strengthen many popular movements that evoke dark echoes in a war continent in the twentieth century. It is widely seen that the explicit Higsith warning in Brussels last week that Europeans need “traditional security in the continent” widely as a sign of Trump’s hatred of NATO and the umbrella of security.
All this is Putin’s ears, because it indicates that his position as an international league has ended, and that he has a deal on hand on Ukraine that would enhance his regional gains. The divisions that Trump opened within NATO offer one of the most important goals of foreign policy in Russia.
“It is actually like Easter, Hanoka, Christmas, ()) Vladimir Putin’s birthday and everything happens in one day,” Alexander Gabov, Director of the Carnegie Eurasia Center, told CNN’s Bianna Golodryga on Sunday. “Whatever champagne is not brought to the refrigerator and other bottles unlimited.”
France invites an emergency meeting
The crisis in the relations via the Atlantic President Emmanuel Macron prompted the summons of an unofficial meeting on Monday with the leaders of Germany, Britain, Italy, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and Denmark, as well as the heads of the European Council, the European Commission and the Lato. Secretary -General.
While Trump’s runner for 80 years of post -World War Second Security policy is an amazing transformation in the United States policy and a sign of his hatred of international goals, Europe has left itself vulnerable to isolation currents in the United States, which has long been part of America, DNA. .
For years of suffocating defense budgets, most NATO members from the United States have been poorly left for the task of defending Europe and the dominant role that the Trump administration is now demanding. Defensive spending will mean painful options for leaders who are already struggling to finance social welfare countries and disable them in low -growth economies.
But there are already some indications that the Trump administration’s strict position is the concentration of minds as leaders seek to persuade the president. British Prime Minister Kiir Starmer, who is planning to meet Trump in the coming days, said he is ready to send British forces to Ukraine as part of any peace deal. Daily Telegraph on Monday, Starmer also said that European countries “must increase our defensive spending and take over a larger role in NATO” – but added that American support will remain necessary to ensure peace.
The talks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will also highlight another advanced topic in international-growing international relations of the Kingdom-it is clear from all of its increasing role during the era of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the affairs of the Middle East, but also with its soft initiatives such as investments in the European Sports League championships And hosting the FIFA 2034 World Cup.
Trump did not hide his admiration for the leaders of the powerful, and the Prince and Putin have a narrow relationship. A source close to the Saudi Court told Alex Marquardt from CNN that hosting the talks would enhance the image of the Saudis and prestige and show them to be players in one of the most important cases of the day.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be vital for other goals of Trump’s foreign policy – which ends the war in Gaza. The administration is trying to persuade the Saudis and Israelis towards the diplomatic normalization agreement that can reshape political geography in the Middle East and consolidate an Arab front against Iran. But such a deal will be a political impossible for the Saudis without a way to a state for the Palestinians. The Arab countries have pushed back strongly against the extraordinary Trump plan The transfer of the collective Palestinians From Gaza in what may reach a form of ethnic cleansing.
Trump’s fictional plan for the United States “owns” and re -development of Gaza, as well as his clear desire to conclude talks with Putin in Ukraine, confirms the dangers of his unconventional approach in foreign relations. But the president is the Ack at the White House in a unique moment that provides opportunities to follow up agreements that can make America and the world safer – that is, unless he deals with deals that ignore the serious security effects.
Sikorsky warned in Munich that the president was playing for huge shares.
“The US credibility depends on how this war (in Ukraine) ends – not only the Trump administration, but the United States itself.”
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