French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday called for the second European alliance to reconcile relations with the US in order to overturn international politics by rapidly changing the American alliance We called for an emergency meeting.
Macron on Monday suggests that Trump and his new team will anger and disrupt American allies and that the US will rapidly retreat from its security role in Europe and advance peace talks. 12 European leaders had already gathered in Paris. Together with Russia – there was no Europe or Ukraine.
Trump's comments were late Tuesday, and he was completely ally in denounced the Russian narrative for war, and that aspect was to allow the US to abandon its role as a European ally and accept President Vladimir V. Putin It reinforced the impression that you are ready to switch. Russia.
It was the complete reversal of the historic alliance that surprised many in Europe.
“It's very bad what's going on. Former French Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian told French radio on Wednesday morning.
“It's our safety that he puts in danger,” he said, referring to President Trump. “We have to wake up.”
Fearing that Trump was ready to abandon Ukraine and had accepted the point of Russia's story, he had made the Western West efforts to appease Hitler in Munich in 1938, and his consent to Stalin's demands. The Yalta Conference for Europe in 1945 was cut into two, when memories were particularly serious in Eastern Europe.
“Even Polish betrayal in Yalta lasted longer than Ukrainian betrayal in Riyadh,” said the son of Reck Waresa, a Polish lawmaker and leader of Polish anti-communist solidarity trade union. Jaroslo Waresa spoke about social media on Wednesday, referring to a talk about the US and Russia. Tuesday in Saudi Arabia.
Former Lithuanian Defense Minister Lhasa Juknevisien, who is now a member of the European Parliament, said it is “hard to understand” sudden policy changes by the US, a former reliable pillar of European security, for decades. . She said, “I'm wondering what historians will write about this incident.”
“It's already clear that the Euro-Atlantic connection is not the same as before,” she said. “The phase where post-World War II security was essentially guaranteed only by the US.”
Europe is “facing existential challenges again,” she added. After British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met Hitler in Munich in 1938, agreed to annexation with most of the Germans in Czechoslovakia.
With a vacuum of power, Macron tried to show his leadership and devise a united response to Allied leaders.
Elise Palace announced on Monday that it will hold its second emergency meeting on Wednesday for many European leaders that were not included in the meeting. Among them was Illy Borojan, interim president of Romania, with other leaders from Finland, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Greece, Sweden and Belgium present in person.
The meeting was the day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian representatives, including Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Sergei V. Lavrov, and the rage of President Voldy Zelensky over the peace deal for war in Ukraine. We discussed it. I was not invited.
Rubio sets out a three-part plan, starting with reestablishing bilateral relations between Washington and Moscow, and exploring a new partnership between Russia and the United States (geopolitical and business). He said that. Meanwhile, the end of the war with Ukraine.
Rubio said he would consult with Ukraine, the US “partner in Europe and other places,” but ultimately said “ultimately, the Russian side is essential to this effort.”
Later, despite the fact that Russia invaded, President Trump spoke with reporters at Florida's Mar-a-Lago Estate and accused Ukraine of starting a war.
“You could have made a deal,” he said, showing that he didn't deserve a seat at the negotiation table, centering on President Zelensky's popularity.
“Well, they had seats for three years, and the long period before that,” Trump said. “This could have been very easy to solve. Half-baked negotiators may have settled down a few years ago, without losing much land, and barely losing land. Without losing the city lying by their side.”
Trump's comments denounced Ukraine for the war sparked rage in the Czech Republic, where the centralist government was a stubborn supporter of Ukraine. “We are worried that Orwell's “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength,” said Home Minister Vitt Laksan. He spoke on social media.
Le Dorian called it a huge reversal of the world's alliance and a “reversal of truth.”
“The victims become attackers,” he said, adding that the US had retreated to a 19th-century view and told offensive and expandist Russia to do what it wanted in Europe. “It's the strongest law,” he says, “Tomorrow, it could be Moldavia, and after tomorrow it could be Estonia as President Putin won't stop.”
Marco Mickelson, chairman of the Estonian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, also compared the Riad meeting to a 1938 meeting in Munich. “All this paves the way for the invaders to achieve their new plan of conquest,” he said.
Before Rubio and President Trump's declaration on Tuesday, Macron said he thought Russia's threat to Europe in Russia through slier means including not only military terminology but also manipulation of election processes like cyberattacks and Romania. Ta.
“Russia constitutes an existential threat to Europeans,” Macron said Tuesday in an interview with regional French newspapers, including Le Palisen and Oost France.
“Don't think that things that are not unthinkable, including the worst,” he added.
On Monday, European leaders have a swift organisational message in Paris with an overwhelming message that Europeans and Ukrainians need to be included in peace talks with Russia, including their commitment to increase military funding. I left a meeting.
Many have made it clear that they want a continuing alliance with the United States.
“The positive message was that this was not about the US or Europe, but rather had the same sense of the US and Europe coming together. With the Americans,” Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schuf said.
Trump's latest statement pours water on many of these sentiments and could now force European leaders to rethink a deeper rethink of the Transatlantic Alliance.
Macron has been talking to European leaders about the formation of ceasefire buffer forces in Ukraine, and has long sought strategic autonomy in Europe. Still, he told French regional news media he doesn't believe European countries can protect themselves without US support.
He said he hopes European countries will increase their military budgets and will announce a new program that will allow them to do so “as early as March.”
Already, the European Commission's Ursula von der Reyen will be able to fund the defense without violating the strict EU financial rules aimed at keeping the budget deficit below 3%. In his speech he announced that he would propose an “escape clause for defense investment” that would allow the program. The size of each country's economy.
“This will allow member states to significantly increase their defensive spending,” she said.
Europeans are also discussing joint spending on defense. That's the way people raise funds that could involve issuing joint debt, but that's still controversial. They also talk about ways to strengthen the development of the European defense industry.
The unshakable status of Europe, which held the US as the central pole for defense guarantees over the past week, appears to have been changing, according to Martin Quenz, director of the German Marshall Fund Paris office.
The big question is whether European countries will take over the rise in military spending and maintain the united front, and maintain the united front without destroying it to negotiate individually with Trump, he said. I said that.
“I've heard Europe talk about wake-up calls over and over again over the past decade, and I'm cautious,” he said, and many European leaders, including Macron, have said. , noted that he finds himself in a fragile political and economic position. their country.
“We're sure we'll hear from all European leaders, but let's see what decisions are being made,” he said. Prioritizing European security, choosing over social and environmental issues. Not many governments have the political capital to spend on all this. ”
Poland was the largest and most powerful country in the European Union's previous Communist Party, and tried to calm panic on Tuesday evening after talks in Saudi Arabia ended.
That day, President Andrzezh Duda was visited in Warsaw by Trump's special envoy in Ukraine and Russia, retired general Keith Kellogg. Polish leaders told him that Kellogg “has absolutely no intention of America to reduce activities to reduce the number of American soldiers in some of us in Europe, particularly in the security sector.” He stated that he had checked her.
The US has thousands of soldiers in Poland, opening a new missile defense facility near the Baltic Sea in November, which Russia sees as a threat to its own safety. It was a long-standing request by Putin to close the Polish site in Washington and to have a similar Romanian site.
Jeanna Smialek Contributed report from Brussels
