European leaders say President Donald Trump’s decision to pull thousands of U.S. troops out of Germany came as a surprise but is further proof that they must take care of their own security.
European leaders say President Donald Trump’s decision to pull thousands of U.S. troops out of Germany came as a surprise but is further proof that they must take care of their own security.
Europe has been attempting to negotiate with Putin before Trump ever entered the picture.
And the negotiations between Trump and Putin are just theatrics, nothing more.
Your proposal seems like a reasonable starting point on the face of it. But is unrealistic for several reasons.
The UK and France don’t have the political capital to threaten war on Russia. RN and Reform would likely dramatically surge in popularity.
Also Putin is obsessed with Novorossyia at a minimum and would interpret the threats of entry into the war as a bluff and try and call it.
And there are a lot of boomers still in charge who can’t accept that the Europe-US alliance has become transactional and thus unreliable.
The negotiations between Trump and Putin are not just theatrics. The problem is that Putin is demanding a lot and Trump presently is not willing to go that far.
The war in Ukraine cannot be allowed to continue forever. It is draining the economies of Europe. Europe could be facing the choice of fight now or later. It’s better to fight now while Ukraine is strong. The UK and France gave the Sudetenland to Hitler hoping it would stop his aggression. It didn’t. When Germany invaded Poland, the Uk and France declared war but did nothing. They should have attacked Germany from the west while much of Germany’s forces were in Poland. The result was that Germany later invaded France and despite considered one the world’s most powerful countries, surrendered in 6 weeks.