Message Received: Europeans Scramble to Help Ukraine After Trump Switches Sides to Russia
European leaders have gotten the message loud and clear: After 75 years of assurances the United States would rally to defend any NATO ally under attack, they now know they would be on their own.
President Donald Trump has been bad-mouthing NATO’s core principle of collective security since before his first term in the White House. But it has taken almost a decade for the Europeans to acknowledge Trump’s admiration for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, which was on full display during Friday’s shocking attempt by Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance to force Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to effectively surrender to Russia.
The blinders are off. The leaders of Britain, the European Union and NATO scrambled over the weekend to show solidarity with Zelensky in his refusal to accept the Trump-Putin peace plan devised without Ukrainian involvement. The U.S.-Russia strategy would impose a ceasefire with neither commitment from Russia to negotiate an end to the war nor allow a European monitoring force to guard against ceasefire violations.
At an emergency summit in London on Sunday, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer led the Western chorus pledging solidarity with Zelensky in pursuing a just peace, not just a pause for Russia to rearm and reinforce its hold on occupied Ukraine territory.
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