Donald Trump has become the greatest stove in Europe since the end of the Cold War Fabrizio Tassinari star-news.press/wp

SEven it is the Bible number, dear to ancient Rome, and the number of the lucky Cristiano Ronaldo shirt. Perhaps this will be the answer to Henry Kissinger’s question (maybe fabricated): What is the number that I call when I want to talk to Europe? The answer may be seven, such as the number of leaders sitting on the table in Washington on Monday, along with Donald Trump and Volodimir Zellinsky.

It is difficult to say at this stage if anything good will come from the top of the improvised White House, but European leaders who appear as a group to support Ukraine were the first. This coordination consisting of seven members-Nato, the European Commission, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy and Finland-really speaks with one voice. They did this in a crisis, Ukraine, which was sometimes divided throughout the past three and a half (remember Emmanuel Macron’s early interest in not “humiliating” Vladimir Putin?). However, Ukraine is also the file in which European leaders gathered and resulted in the greatest influence during the same time frame: from 18 penalties packages The European Union imposed on Russia and the opening of negotiations to join the European Union to Ukraine Provide weapons To Kyiv.

In Washington, we saw a rare, unprecedented, but impressive European group: countries from northern and southern Europe, large and small, are two nuclear powers and permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, based in institutions in Brussels, but they often appear in the very different planets; The United Kingdom is completely in harmony with European positions, despite its withdrawal from its basic political entity.

For those like me who followed the illusion that represents a foreign policy and security for years, it was almost customary for these seven leaders to witness, each of them speaking for two minutes, with the exact repetition of the same message. Certainly, they have accurate differences such as English dialects. Macron and his German counterpart, Friedrich Mirz, insisted on the ceasefire, while Giorgia Meloni, Italy, claimed the proposal for the potential military protection of Ukraine, similar to Article 5 of NATO. However, everyone agreed to the need for iron security guarantees to Kev, while maintaining the front via the United Front and the magazine “No less than peace”.

As always, it took a crisis to get the Europeans out of stalemate. One directly began last Friday with the shameful summit in Alaska between Trump and Putin. Trump was concerned about the threats and calm to Russia and instead he put forward the red carpet For the Russian dictator, for reasons we may not fully understand. It continued during the weekend with the real danger that Zelenskyy could again be a hypothesis of the oval office.

Ironically, we must thank Trump’s vanity, dislocation, contempt for liberal and democratic ideals, and ridicule him, to give Europeans the urgent sign that they need to the table in Washington. Trump may destroy the rest of the West. But with Putin, he proves that he was unintentionally “the other” in Europe, that is, the external power that constitutes its collective identity, and thus the greatest position of Europe since the end of the Cold War.

The main question, of course, is the place where all the diplomacy of Ukraine is left. For the sake of good and bad, the momentum is built towards a tangible peace framework – albeit without a ceasefire, in a clear indication of Russia’s demands. The features of this deal will include regional concessions in the four regions of eastern Ukraine, which were illegally included by Russia in 2022. It was shown fateful at the Monday meeting by Trump itself on A. Custom board map. The more Ukraine and the Europeans increase with the inevitability of the Earth’s concessions, the greater the confirmation of the need for the United States to provide “security guarantees”, in fact guaranteeing a mass defense, supported by military assistanceand Closer to the mutual defense pledge in NATO. In Trump’s typical fashion, Europe must pay for it. All this, in addition to the long -term Russian demands for a new security architecture in Europe, will be the subject of the direct triple summit that has been largely calculated between Trump, Zelinski and Putin.

The President of Finland, Alexander Stop, one of the seventh summit, has Maxim on how Europe works that he loves to repeat: “First there is a crisis, then there is chaos. In the end, it reaches an optimal solution.” One must hope this time is wrong: the formulas that are discussed now are generated from a tragedy and may be below optimal. But the risks are rarely higher: the consequences of all Europe if these talks may be followed by chaos may be devastating.