If America Walks Away From Ukraine, What Will Europe Do?

Europeans see Ukraine’s security as vital to their own and want to defend the principle of no border changes by force, even if President Trump does not.

An important core of large European countries — Poland, Germany, France, Britain, the Nordic nations and the Baltic nations — all see the security of Ukraine as vital to their own and say they are prepared to continue to aid Kyiv. 

Even if they cannot realistically help Ukraine drive out the Russians, 

they want to ensure that Ukraine can keep what it has and can continue to bleed Russia, 

which has spent the past six months capturing a few villages at the price of scores of thousands of troops.

New York Times 24 April 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/europe/europe-ukraine-russia-trump.html


“it’s time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process.”

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2025/04/its-time-for-them-to-either-say-yes-or.html


The first NATO Secretary General, Lord Ismay, famously stated the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down".

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_137930.htm





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