Let’s get more now on the story of the Ukrainian president in Europe to meet with allies, including the UUUKPM. It follows a disastrous meeting in Washington where Mr. Zelenskyky was rebuked by President Donald Trump and his deputy, JD Vance. We’re joined by the director of resilience at the Center for European Policy Analysis, and we thank the Green for taking the Green Walk with us today. Thank you. Want to quote today? Me. Thank you. You said soon after that.
meeting, and after after that, President Zelenskyky, the White House aide, said the quiet conversation since Munich and we’re talking about the Munich Sphere, here, has been about setting Ukraine up fall. Aril. Are you suggesting that this was a deliberate attempt by the Trump administration to back away from Ukraine so that America no longer has to support it in its war with Russia? Russia? Lol, lol, look, ok, the only person who knows for certain is President Trump, maybe Vice President Pence, a couple of others.
of other people, the administration would leave it to them to answer that question but I do think that a couple of weeks ago, the administration had been pressing ahead at break neck speed to try to achieve some kind of a rapid end that would allow the US to exit its entanglement with this conflict and to reset relations with Russia, running into frustration after frustration early in the anachronistic hesitancy, reticence, hesitancy, of the.
Can Europe deter Russia in Ukraine without US military?
Ukrainians Ukrainian propfans signed that they thought was was a prelude to the preluded and since then, there has been growing frustration and a growing sense of what the White House blamed on what they would couch as Ukrainian unreasonableness and I think that’s very much the framing that the White House has tried to put on in that conversation the other day in the.
Oval Office and in its responses since then, we’ve got President London and he’s about to meet the other European alleles, foursome, tomorrow at a Europe as summits Some news has just come in with the UK reinforcing support for Ukraine with a billion- dollar loan, more than than alliin- dollar loan to bolster Ukrainian defense capabilities. Is Europe now coming to the realization that it is, if act, alone when it comes to supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia? Well ,ell, we’ll know a little more.
about that in next,, know, now, 12 hours or so as the summit uh here he UK wraps up uh I think there has been a growing realization uh that the United States would not be necessarily part of the solution. I think there hone uh an increasing sense among some European leaders uh really since the Muncie crudity Security Conference Demur, that, uh, again,, Vice President JD Vance launched at Europe in general Germany and the UK in part uh, that, hat, uh, the ,might, in ways, ayes, not simply not be part of solution, but.
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Actually, it might be part of the problem, as seen in the responses of Euro leaders, including Prime Minister Stammer, President Macron, and Chancellor Merz, that, um, you know, one , that, other ,know,, Europe has to come up with a solution that, uh, for E. File. If the United States chooses to get on board with that solution at some, uh, point, uh, it would ,course, ruse, make happy people happy.
know still a lot of commitment to the transatlantic relationship, uh but I think Europeans are increasingly unwilling to let, uh that commitment stand in the way of durable peace and security on the European continent, ight? Um,? Um, now the EU foreign secretary uh Kajal kala had declared that and I’m going to quote here her, red that, and I’m going to quote here her, ” The free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us Europeans to take on the challenge. engine. wonder, though, are the European countries and governments united enough to be able to take up such mantle,
Wells division on the continent. . We continent. ,uh, Hungarian Prime Minister,, uh,, you know, true to form ,mum, standing for President Ent Trump and eking with the rest of Europe, but broadly speaking, Europe very much is beholding with the rest of Europe, but broadly speaking, Europe very much is the rest of of Europe but broadly speaking, Europe very much is behind and with the UkrUkrainians.is again a good one, and it’s Vladimir.
Will Europe’s support for Ukraine last without the US?
and Vladimir Putin. . Whether they have the resources or not, they can probably get them. Whether they will have the physical resources to put arms on the front as support.
The Ukrainian fort will depend on whether they can ramp up industrial production and procurement. They will not be able to do that very quickly without procuring those arms in other places, potentially including in the United States, but the question is a political one: Are they willing to create a format that would essentially be their own table, their own table with the Ukrainians, potentially with the Russians, rather than trying to seek a seat at whatever table Donald Trump is trying to create for himself?
