Just a few weeks in his second term, the President Donald Trump Message for Europe is clear and disappointed for many Federal Washington Allies.
A little official in Europe gathered in southern Germany for the Munich security conference this weekend, it envisaged that the Vice President JD Vance had for those cuts in his eyelids while he had taken a speech directly on those who tried.
The largest European FOE said that the most important security summit, was not Russia, China, North Korea or Iran, but the enemy. “Vances is painted with a picturesque image of a continent with free speech and democracy under siege, but have largely governed the main topics of Ukraine and the defense of the conference.
“Real Shock” flashed with an audience, Goncharenko, Ukrainian representative was told Newsweek, Despite some attempts at older personnel for brushing unexpected rhetoric.
For Americans, Vance’s words were known, Joshua Walker, a former state and defense officer who now runs the Japanese society of Non Profit. “I just don’t think the Europeans knew what hit them,” he said Newsweekdenoting many participants as “upset”.
“They will write about this weekend in historical books,” said Bill Browder, financier and a campaign that is a prominent critic of the Russian President Vladimir Putin, Newsweek.
He added, “This is red meat for his base in Indiana and Arkansas. It wasn’t that it would be to win the hearts and the minds of Europeans.”
In a handful of the day, a number of Trump’s most prominent officials are exposed to the new external agenda of the US foreign policy. What was expected widely, the White House ran out of patience to rely on Europe in Washington to carry a group of defensive consumption. Of this from European officials, there was none of this, nor is the desire – there was universal acceptance, private and publicly, that the continent falsely lied.
The us is right to now demand this, officials need to immediately up its military spending headlight beyond the North American Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Current Benchmark of 2 Percent of A Member State’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The less clear, however, is Trump’s vision for a truce in Ukraine in the middle of its permanent war with Russia, a lot on Chagrin and the cover of European officials. While some suggested Ukrainian and European officials suggested that the conference is productive, it is also clear that some had higher hopes for the outcome of the day of networking and negotiations.
The weekend was a “cold shower for Europeans here,” Goncharenko said. “They realized how much it was.”
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Confusion across Ukraine
He is noticeably in Vassian contrants in Ukraine, the key focus of the conference.
“We very clearly became what the US administration wants, but is not in the war in Ukraine,” Former Spanish Foreign Minister, said Arancho González Laya, said Newsweek.
“There was no specificity”, standing against expectation many had that he had something “essential” to offer in Ukraine and her European accompanying conference, Walker said.
“We all expected to say something, but he said nothing about it,” Estonia Foreign Minister, Margus Tsahkna, said Newsweek.
Trump has committed to completing almost three years of war in Ukraine in just a day. Widely understood that it is unrealistic, the promise was taken as a strong commitment to the stopping of the largest conflict in Europe from World War II. The participants in Munich during the weekend once again expressed this belief.
What has not yet appeared the map of the road that shows how the president intends to achieve that.
European officials appeared to be able to cut out of the process, something Trump’s envoy for Ukraine and Russia, retired Lieutenant General Kelogga Keligga, appeared to confirm on Saturday.
Speaking during the secondary event full of Ukrainians and several European leaders, Kellogg said that European representatives would not have a place for the negotiating table, together with Washington, Kiev and Moscow, while insisting their “interests”.
Comments have poorly received the current and former European officials. But there are some speculation that remarks can be intentionally placed for the unification of Europe, a continent meeting overcome on every country that is their money in which their mouths are.
“You can’t misinterpret what’s saying,” Walker said. “Either it’s a step, or you can’t be a leader.”
Polish Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, allegedly said that Kellogg offered an explanation “Circle of European Federations” on how they planned the termination of the fire, but refused to offer further details.
American seemed to exclude Ukrainian membership in NATO, which Kiev strongly lobbyed, and the Secretary of the Pete Hegsetth said during a visit to Brussels for the latter days that Ukraine vomited the control to its borders for 2014. year “unrealistic.
Washington also moved back from the proposal to put American soldiers in the field to calm a truce.
With a strong implication that European troops would be possible to be a possible truce, officials in Europe were questioned so that the USA could realistically cut the continent from the upcoming conversations.
Negotiations will take place in Saudi Arabia, staff on the American side of Eyoy Stevei Witkoff, which Kellogg said on Saturday talked with Russian teams, as well as the National Security Mike Waltz Advisor.
European officials, including British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, meeting in Paris on Monday for alternative talks on Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron, writing on social media, on Sunday, talked to the throne to Saudi Arabia Mohammad Bin Salman to discuss “Saudi Arabia could play in him in the center of the process.”
There is some confusion about whether Ukraine will attend Saudi Arabia, after Yulia Svyrydenko, the Minister of Economy Kiev, published pictures of social media as if he was showing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenic arrival. Andriy Yermak, Head of Zelensky’s office, he said separately on the telegram that there were “no meetings” planned with Russia.
For some conferences, marked a dark weekend for US support for Kiev. The summit was “the moment when America basically thrown Ukraine under the bus,” Browder said.
He added that it seemed all likely that Trump ink would contract with the path, with a cremila leader who is committed to maintaining promises that there was no intention of keeping. Zelensky repeatedly said that he believed that the Kremlin would not respect the conditions of truce, demanding security guarantees from their support.
Trump posted earlier this month that he talked to the path to what he called “a long-term and highly productive phone call.” On Wednesday, Trump also said that he and Kremlin leader agreed to begin negotiations on the end of the war “, adding to” to “inform” it “in development”.
Zelensky said he would refuse to accept the job indirectly without Ukrainian involvement.
“They’re dancing Jig in the Kremlin at the moment,” Browder said. It is “an amazing turnaround for Putin and surrendered it on a silver tray by Trump.”
On foot for defense consumption
The more famous terrain for many delegates in Munich was an emphasis on European defense consumption increases.
Hegseth and Trump stabbed Europe with a new goal – Each country should have gotten a glue 5 percent of their GDP on the defense. The current NATO goal is sitting at 2 percent, and there are still several Member States.
Munich officials tried to distance themselves from the specifics of this number, docily nodding to cheer in defense consumption must be steep. Prominent politicians felt more comfortable insisting that the campaign should be removed with extraction holes in Europe currently has it, not strengthening the percentage.
Air defenses, long missiles and staff are among the most convenient concerns. “There are huge gaps,” Tsahkna said.
When transferred to 5 percent in the side event, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said “does not commit for the number”, but that would be “much more than three percent.”
When asked Newsweek Whether the whole Europe will be able to reach 5 percent, Tsahkna responded quickly: “No.”
It should be possible through the slab, he said, but it didn’t.
Meanwhile, parts of Europe were broken into the commission to spend more than 3 percent on defense, such as the Baltic states of Estonia and Lithuania.
Tsahkna, however, rejected the idea that countries are lowered to NATO east side, which bordering Russia, should be the only ones to take on the cost of increasing.
“It’s not about the Baltic – he talks about Europe,” he said.
2025-02-16 21:02:00
