Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection

Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Well I was focusing chiefly on the title but the article itself isn’t entirely unlike my description either.

      Once again blind-sided by Trump, European leaders read paragraph after paragraph of the US proposal with a mixture of disbelief and panic.

      It is not like Trump won the election yesterday, or that he was President for 4 years previously. Feel free to be shocked… but (hopefully) not that shocked.

      Then the article ends with a very pointed:

      But Europe has vowed to get its act together so often. Inertia, not Russia, may have become its own worst enemy.

      Which seems somehow familiar…