Why Europe is so worried about Ukraine being excluded from Trump-Putin talks

Although Zelenskyy has loudly rejected that in each turn, which really worries many of its supporters, is that Ukraine will be forced to hand over these lands without the appropriate “security guarantees” of its allies, perhaps in the form of peace deployments in the hope of dissuading Putin from simply grouping together to launch its next attack.

“The anxiety is that, in Trump’s desire to have a kind of contract, it will be a very bad deal for Ukraine,” a former British armed forces officer from the Breton-Armed Forces. “It seems to be an agreement between the gangster and the real estate magnate. But in fact, the real people involved, who should be involved, are not. ”

Europeans published their statement on Sunday after being organized by the British Foreign Minister David Lammy, in his official Cheventing residence, a 17th century manor which takes place in a sprawling field in southwest London. But Lammy’s main guest during the weekend was vice-president JD Vance, who stopped before European guests on vacation in the United Kingdom with his family.

Vance and Lammy shared a perhaps improbable link – given their right and left policy, respectively – the link on fishing and their shared working roots and their Christian faith.

But in an interview with Fox News, the vice-president, a long-standing skeptical of Ukraine support, clearly explained geopolitical differences.

“We have finished financing the war activity of Ukraine,” he said. “The Americans, I think, are tired of continuing to send their money and their taxes to this particular conflict. If Europeans want to intensify and buy weapons from American producers, we agree with this,” he added. “If you care so much about this conflict, you should be ready to play a direct and more substantial role.”

It is a much more difficult way to state what Trump has already committed: that the United States is ready to obtain weapons in Ukraine, but only if European allies pay them.

Aside from the wave of diplomacy, it is always the case that Russia and Ukraine remain diametrically opposed in what they want on peace talks. In addition to more Ukrainian lands, Russia wants a promise that Ukraine neutral its army and will never join NATO, which its criticisms say would make kyiv a vassal of Moscow.

Ukraine mainly wants to survive as a nation and stop the hemorrhage of people and resources with whom it was forced to engage in the fight against its aggressor.