Europe will gather for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine next week.
This apparently comes as a response to Trump’s governance renouncing financial support of Ukraine,w which was a hallmark of the Biden administration.
Europe, in response, wants to reiterate its allegiance to NATO.
Meanwhile, Ukraine adamantly wants in NATO — but the idea doesn’t seem supported.
Trump and Putin hope to freeze Europe out of peace talks. The US and Russia will meet in Saudi Arabia to negotiate.
Europe has been struggling since 2015 to create peace — the Minsk agreements were somewhat aborted as a peace fire deal then, the BBC points out.
Apparently, President Macron was responsible for calling the summit together.
President Zelensky himself has publicly commented the US support for Ukraine is ending and that Europe “needs to adjust to that” by creating “an army of Europe”.
Macron loves the idea, as the Czech Republic and Hungary historically have, but EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says it’s a no-go.
At the Munich Security Conference (which Russia did not attend), US Vice-President J.D. Vance admonished Europe to “step up in a big way to provide for its own defence”.
European figureheads met this coldly, saying it was “not acceptable” and accusing him of “trying to fight” with Europe.
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