TRIBUNE – This Monday, half a dozen European leaders accompany Volodymyr Zelensky in Washington. A final attempt to try to weigh on the situation while Trump abandoned the commitments he had made in their regard, analyzes the former minister*.
*Last book published: Gears. The Ukraine War and the switching of the world (Odile Jacob editions, 2024).
In Anchorage, the President of the United States, Donald Trump dropped Europeans, acting the end of an era of 75 years in transatlantic relations, that of indefinite and free protection of Europe by America.
In Alaska, not only Trump offered an international rehabilitation to his Russian colleague, Vladimir Putin, yet charged by the International Criminal Court after the assault of Ukraine in February 2022, but he himself abandoned the commitments he had made with regard to Europeans for the settlement of the conflict.
Recall that two days before the anchorage summit, European leaders, during a videoconference organized by Chancellor Merz, had expressed five conditions that President Trump was supposed to assert during his interviews with Putin. The two main ones were the requirement of an immediate ceasefire, the second …