News analysis: Trump ends via Ukraine to Russia, but the bigger victim can be NATO

Washington – President Trump's seat with Russia in his war against Ukraine not only endangers the former Soviet republic, but can also undermine eight decades of transatlantic security and force Europe to do it alone.

Trump's new Minister of Defense, Pete Hegseth, made his first trip in this role in NATO security this week.

The statement shakes the basic principle according to which the organization was founded and which has received the relative peace in large parts of the world since the Second World War. It is of the opinion that an attack against a single member is an attack against everyone, a principle that was called once: when the European nations helped in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania after September 11, 2001.

Meanwhile, Trump made calls with the Russian President Vladimir Putin and agreed that her two countries would work “closely” to end the devastating war that began almost three years ago when Putin entered neighboring Ukraine.

The conflict killed tens of thousands of thousands of people. Most Russian dead are soldiers, while civilians make up a large part of the Ukrainian death.

Trump said after talking to Putin for an hour and a half, they agreed to start negotiations on the future of Ukraine.

So far, the mantra of the US and European officials was “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected every proposal that treated his nation as subsequent thoughts.

“As an independent country, we cannot accept that agreements without us without us,” said Zelensky on Thursday. He said it was important not to “allow everything to allow Putin's plan”.

But so far that seems to happen. According to the Trump government officials, Ukraine cannot expect to regain its entire area, which were illegally confiscated by Russia, and cannot expect membership in NATO, while the United States probably some of the numerous sanctions that Moscow because of its warlike Have imposed behavior. The concessions were a remarkable change in US policy.

Ivo Daalder, former US ambassador to NATO, said Trump “tries to end the war at all costs – similar to Neville Chamberlain.” Daalder alluded to the British Prime Minister of the Second World War in Great Britain, which was widely criticized for this

In Europe, refreshment was also made when it was flooded in the potential solution of a conflict that affects its citizens most directly.

“The voice of Ukraine must be the focus of all discussions,” said British Defense Minister John Healey to reporters in the NATO headquarters, where the 32 Minister of Defense – including Hegseth – met for discussions about Ukraine.

The German Foreign Minister Anna Baerbock also insisted that Europe had to be included because “it is about European peace”. She added: “Others do not do any foreign policy, but this is now reality. … this is how the Trump administration works. “

In Moscow, Russian officials celebrated what they saw as the main victory for the support of Trump via Ukraine and about NATO.

“The USA finally really injured Zelensky,” said Ria Novosti, Russian State Agency. “This means that the formula no longer exists nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine – a holy cow for Zelensky, the European Union and the previous US government.”

And a heading in the Pro-Kremlin Boulevardzeitung Komsomolskaya Pravda said: “Trump signed Zelensky's death sentence.”

In a press conference in the White House on Thursday, Trump doubled his support for the demands of Russia and his tendency to deal directly with Moscow.

But by withdrawing as a defender of Europe in the event of an attack by Russia or other external forces, the Trump government, never admirers of NATO, has global matters, said on Thursday in an interview.

“After 76 years, the United States is no longer a reliable partner,” he said. “Putin is encouraged by the fact that the USA withdraw as a guarantee of European security – the goal of the Soviet Union and then Putin's Russia since 1949.”

At the press conference on Thursday, Trump was asked if he believed that Putin wants peace. “I trust him on this topic,” said Trump. “I think he would tell me if he wouldn't do it.”

The comment recalled Trump's expressions of trust in Putin's assurances in 2017 that, despite the opposite, Russia had not tried to interfere with the 2016 US presidential election.

Europe has been in its own defense for years. Under the Obama government, NATO members promised to increase their domestic defense spending by several percentage points.

Returning the support for Europe also comes because the administration begins to make the promise of promising drastic cuts for the diplomatic presence of the US messages and virtual dismantling of the US Agency for International Development, a global provider of humanitarian aid. Together, all of these steps are viewed globally as dismantling.