Trump changes sides
The U.S. president leaves Ukraine and Europe alone against Russia after decades of strategic alliance
We don’t know the details of Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine, but, after a disastrous week for transatlantic relations, we can say that it is a failure for the Ukrainian people, for Europe and for international law. The bullying ceremony with which the White House received President Zelenskiy on Friday culminated a drift marked by a historic milestone: Monday’s votes at the United Nations, when Washington and Moscow exhibited a new alliance in which Trump openly aligns himself with the Putin regime vis-à-vis the European Union and democratic countries. The change of the United States’ position regarding those who, for 80 years, have been its allies starts with the acceptance of the arguments invented by the Kremlin to justify the invasion.
