Donald Trump je bil brutalen:

It will be just me and Putin, we will not invite representatives of Europe. There will be no war for me and if Europe has a problem with that, then let Russia defeat it on its own without American participation.

Why don’t I want the EU there?

Because their representatives need to go to war, they need a long-term conflict to cover up their incompetence, their lobbies and their stolen money.

I already classify the EU as a third world country, but it is a little better off, no one dictates anything to them.

I will not negotiate with anyone who wants to prolong the conflict, I will not negotiate with anyone who will send more weapons, I will not negotiate with anyone who will try to get any more ammunition initiatives, I will not negotiate with anyone who will try to prolong the conflict.

I will negotiate the peace, which is obviously a very censored word in the EU.

Vir: Peacemaker via X

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In spodaj še nekaj odlomkov iz članka na CNN o tem, zakaj EU ni dejavnik, ki bi lahko odločala o pogojih mirovnega sporazuma o Ukrajini. Ker preprosto nima s čim, nima več orožja, saj je izpraznila svoja vojaška skladišča. Da EU v svojem patetičnem javnem zaklinjaju, da bo za pogajalsko mizo, ni prav zares resna, najbolje priča, da je francoski predsednik jutrišnji sestanek (nekaterih) evropksih voditeljev v Parizu na temo Ukrajine opredelil kot “neformalni”. Nekaj evropskih politikov se bo petelinilo pred TV kamerami. Jutrišnji sestanek bo bolj kot Ukrajini namenjen, kako v očeh Evropejcev rešiti ne Evropo, pač pa obraz vladajoče evropske politične elite, ki jo je nova ameriška administracija prejšnji teden nokautirala pri belem dnevu in vsem na očeh.

The fact is that European countries, like their American ally thus far, spent nearly three years depleting their own arsenals and treasuries in the name of a fight for freedom and democracy that had felt to them existential as the Russian invasion began. That now appears to have been entirely brushed aside in the name of political expediency and the search for peace.

And, while peace is also what Europeans aspire to, their worry is now how costly it may be, given the price Washington seems prepared to pay, and how short lived, given Putin’s record.

Hence the meeting in Paris. European leaders may not be able to weigh in on the terms of a future peace deal but they do hope to find ways of giving security guarantees to Kyiv. Yet the danger facing them as they head to the French capital is that that just as the fight for Ukraine united them three years ago, so too might the specter of peace on their Eastern flank divide them once more. Particularly at a time when several of them are facing an increasingly emboldened and electorally successful European far right that is far more closely aligned with Washington’s new leaders than they are.

But European leaders are also keen not to appear rattled. The French foreign minister explained on French radio on Sunday that these sorts of meetings happened all the time. And Macron himself billed Monday’s talks as “an informal meeting” for those interested “in peace and security in Europe.”

For now, we expect not only the presidents of the EU council and Commission to attend, but also the NATO secretary general and the leaders of Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and Denmark. The British prime minister has also confirmed his presence, with Downing Street calling it a “once in a generation moment” for national security.

Few of those heading to Paris had doubted that Trump meant what he said the first time round, it’s more that now he appears to have surrounded himself with people who know exactly what they’re doing when it comes to undermining Europe and dismantling NATO. And they are, it seems, done with doing Europe’s bidding. This will make Monday’s meeting not just about how to help Ukraine, but, at its heart, about how to save Europe itself.

Vir: CNN