The next article is about EU reactions.
Trump’s Ukraine policy shift: How are European leaders planning to respond?
Various European leaders and NATO officials had this meeting in Paris hosted by Macron. They are very concerned and supportive to Ukraine. I think the key takeaway is this:
> “Nothing has emerged from the public statements from the Paris meeting that shows Europe is any closer to proposing, let alone implementing, anything,” Keir Giles, a senior consulting fellow at Chatham House, told Al Jazeera.
And an interesting paragraph:
> United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has floated the idea of sending British troops to Ukraine as well as Sweden. But German Chancellor Scholz has called the discussion to deploy troops “completely premature”.
My commentary:
This whole circus shows how weightless this bunch is. They can talk any bs and play the great statesmen without the fear that they actually have to deliver. They can give empty promises, such as NATO membership, while knowing very well that certain countries (eg Hungary, Slovakia) will veto it anyway. They can offer more money and weapons and sanctions without limits, despite their economies can't deliver shit, and blame certain leaders (stooges like Orbán and Fico) that they are delaying and torpedo their plans. They can rattle their sabers and then blame Trump that he made a deal over their head, they couldn't do anything.
Each and every one of these countries could support Ukraine individually, but somehow they needed a collective NATO effort to deliver weapons at some point, and then blame Hungary for the delay. They wanted to do it collectively because they did not want the blame falling on them individually when they failed (failed not just for their inability but for the lack of motivation).
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/18/trumps-ukraine-policy-shift-how-are-european-leaders-planning-to-respond