There Born earthquake from the head of the Pentagon Pete Hegsethon mandate of the Commander-in-Chief Donald Trumpsuddenly finds himself divided, with the USA On the one hand to dictate the line on Peace in Ukraine and on a greater Sharing spending charges (at the beginning they all agree, on “how much” less), theEurope to suffer without being able to touch the ball from the other. AND Kiev in shock, more or less in the middle.
“It’s not a betrayal,” he ran out Hegseth at the headquarters a Brussels at the beginning of the ministerial. Yet some allies see it just like that.
Kiev tries to reassure, but certainties falter
The Ukrainian Rustm UMEROVwho had bilateral meetings both with Hegseth than with the Secretary General Mark Ruttetried to save the face. “We continue the struggle, we are strong, we are capable, we will do it,” he told journalists thanking the partners for the military aidwho are continuing despite everything. It is clear, however, that certainties begin to falter.
Rutaware of his role as a mediator, he tried to calm the tensions: «We are a family but we are also anAlliance of democracies And maybe we don’t always agree, “he said. «Let’s see how the situation now evolves, theUkraine must be involved in Peace negotiations».
Marginalized Europe: clash on negotiations
The most obvious fracture between Washington And Brussels runs precisely on the theme of negotiationbecause theEurope It is not about to resign ourselves to the role of supporting actor. “There is no agreement signed behind us,” he thundered the high representative Kaja Kallaspresent at NATO-UCRAIN Council. «Any quick agreement will be a dirty deal, I see a situation similar to that of Monaco in 1938: theappeasement it does not work”.
Heavy comparisons, which also find support in the words of the president of European Council Antonio Costawhich in a note stressed that the Peace in Ukraine and the European security are inseparable, adding that peace cannot be a simple cease-fire.
Kallassupported by German Defense Minister Boris Pistoriusthen complained about the method. “It is not a good tactic of negotiation If you give away everything before even the discussions have started, “he said, a strategy that Pistorius defined “regrettable”.
Guarantees of safety and future risks
Now, in fact, it is to be understood what the security guarantees useful to Kiev to avoid being attached again. “We need one lasting peacenot one Minsk-3we cannot afford to Putin to win », he summarized Rut at the end of the day, placing the emphasis on the points that unite theAlliance And not on what divides it.
“A Born split, with theEurope on the one hand and the USA on the other, it would be the best gift a Flywe have to keep it united, “underlined the Italian minister Guido Crosetto. However, he found that many countries have expressed opposition to the position taken by USA onUkraine entry into NATO.
Conference of Monaco: The last chance for the Atlantic Unit?
Now we have to see if something more will follow to indignation constructive or if USA they will have an easy game to use the ancient tool of Divide and impera. At the Monaco conferencewhich opens tomorrow, there will be ample opportunities for meeting between Europeans, Americans and Ukrainians – The G7The Quinta swing of bilaterals – and the possibility of mending, in theory, would be there.
But Trump has not given a sign of being interested in involving theEuropefor the delight of the tsarwhich has always aimed to take out theEU.
«For the Born This is the moment of truth », warned the French defense minister Sébastien Lecornu.