Leaving with his Air Force One for the funeral of Charlie Kirk, a few words of Donald Trump make a sigh of relief to Europe breathe: the United States will help Poland and the Baltic countries to defend themselves in the event of Russia escalation. We look at the facts, but in the meantime the statements of the Tycoon try to dissipate the fears between the western allies, put to the test by Moscow’s provocations on the east side of the continent. After the trespassing of three MIGs in Estonia, the tension on the borders with Russia remains high: even the British hunting of the RAF carried out their first sortie in Poland on Friday, as part of the sentinel mission of the Eastern NATO. And on Sunday morning, the German military aeronautics made two Eurofighters take off to follow a Russian military plane Il-20m “free of flight plan or radio contact”, which entered the neutral aerial space above the Baltic Sea.
Trump’s words come while the divisions within the western front continue to make news: they chase each other in the media rumors that the US administration is willing to curb on the supplies of weapons to the Europeans and cut part of the security assistance to the Baltic states. Including Estonia, threatened in recent days by the trespassing of three Russian Mig in its airspace. In this regard, Tallinn has announced that the United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Monday. It is the first time in 34 years of belonging to Estonia to the United Nations that the country, a member of the EU and NATO, has officially requested an emergency meeting of the Security Council. His foreign minister Margus Tsahkna said that Moscow’s provocation is “part of a wider escalation scheme by Russia”. According to the Czech President Petr Pavel, to these violations “we must respond appropriately. Even by breaking down the Russian planes, if necessary ».
On the subject of responses, the West is increasingly convinced that the sanctions road is the only way: “We count on the fact that the 19th EU package is really painful and that the United States join the European Championships”, once again reiterated Volodymyr Zelensky. But to unlock American measures, Trump first asks for all EU countries – Hungary and Slovakia included – abandon Moscow energy supplies. «Europeans buy oil from Russia. This should not happen “and” we will not allow it for a long time, “the tycoon said in no uncertain terms. “I am very disappointed by Putin,” reiterated the American president that “they die between 5,000 and 7,000 people per week without any reason”. In response, the Kremlin reiterated that the sanctions and “the road of the repression of Russia in every area” “do not facilitate the resolution” of the conflict. And the Tsar “remains interested and open to bring the entire Ukrainian question to a peaceful conclusion”, accusing the Europeans – and in particular the United Kingdom just visited by the Tycoon – of doing “everything possible to feed the escalation and prolong the war”.
The sanctions will certainly be a central theme in the bilateral interviews scheduled on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, starting from that between Trump and Zelensky where the question of US security guarantees for Kiev will also be addressed, still wrapped in uncertainty. According to Finnish President Alexander Stubub, “they must be a plausible deterrent. And to be plausible, it must be a strong deterrent ». To be, according to Stub, the plan must predict that the European countries are ready to fight against Russia if in the future Moscow should undertake a military action against Ukraine, alongside this principle to an “American backstop” that gives a concrete force to the plan. It is precisely on this point that Zelensky – with Europe – will try to receive clarifications from Trump.