The agreement between Trump and Putin to stop the Ukraine War is not only a claudication but also a humiliation for the EU, to which the president of the United States has not even deigned to consult. Everything has been forged in conversations … bilateral, without any transparency and without counting on the opinion of Zelenski.
The substantial thing about this agreement is that Russia will be able to stay with Crimea and the territories annexed to the east of the Dnieper, which suppose around a quarter of Ukraine. This validates the use of force by the Kremlin and transmits the message that borders can be modified by blackmail or aggression. It is the Putin matonism award.
Ukraine has resisted heroically, thanks to the help of the United States and the EU, to the progress of Putin’s troops, much higher in number and armament. And he has done so, at the expense of a great sacrifice, to preserve his sovereignty, guaranteed by international legality.
It must be remembered that, in the early 90s, Russia, the United States and Ukraine signed some agreements in Minsk for which kyiv promised a nuclear disarmament in exchange for the recognition of their territorial integrity by Boris Yeltsinsigner of the treaty. Putin has trampled that pact signed after the decomposition of the Soviet Union.
If Ukraine is going to be sacrificed by Trump on behalf of some principles that are difficult to understand, Europe’s security is very weakened. What the agreement shows is that the EU does not paint anything when resolving a conflict that affects its interests and its future.
What has happened reminds a lot of what happened in February 1945, a few months before the end of World War II, when Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin They traced the borders of the world in Yalta without consulting countries like Poland, which would be mortgaged their future by that conference. The difference is that the British prime minister had voice and vote and now the EU has been left out.
But not only the EU is touched. NATO is also injured in death Because Trump has made a strategic decision that affects all his partners without asking their opinion. After announcing that he wants to annex Canada and Greenland, territories defended by the alliance, what is NATO for? The best thing that the EU can do is build a common defense system outside an association that no longer defends its interests and in which it does not play any role. An additional note: the words of Mark Ruttehis new general secretary, are an exercise of disturbing servility to Trump. He has lost all moral authority to exercise the position.
The international order that emerged from World War II was based on respect for borders and an unwritten rule: that of the repudiation of the use of force to modify them. That principle has jumped through the air. We already know, if the agreement between Trump and Putin is consumed, that international legality is wet paper if the means are available to break it.
If Europe does not react to this indignity, it will be clear that our role in the world is irrelevant, that the decline of our continent, reduced to a cultural theme park, is irreversible. It will be the obvious demonstration that Trump, Putin and Xi Jinping The world can be distributed over a napkin.
Many will be tempted to accept this agreement because it will end a war that has devastated a country and has caused tens of thousands of dead. That is true, but the struggle of the Ukrainian nation would have served nothing if it is now forced to claudicate and to accept the loss of territories.
It is obvious that Ukraine’s security will not be guaranteed, what is signed is signed, because Russia has already shown that it does not fulfill its commitments. It is now Ukraine, but then they can be Moldova, Poland, Baltic countries, Finland or any country that fits Putin’s imperial plans, which sounds to restore Soviet domain over Eastern Europe.
Putin was honest in saying that the fall of the Berlin wall, when he was a KGB agent in Dresde, was a drama and trauma. Now he intends to get rid of the sinking of Soviet communism, which housed the ambition to distribute the world with the United States during the Cold War.
Europe has to react. It is easy to say and difficult to put into practice. But, if we accept that our future is decided by Trump, we are dead. The EU has to reject this agreement, continue supporting Zelenski and, ultimately, continuing to help resist the Ukrainians no matter how high the cost is. Everything but to accept this claudication, this indignity and this humiliation that will cost us very expensive in the long term.
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