The loneliness of Europe – Il Sole 24 Ore | EUROtoday

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America to Americans, Europe to Europeans: it’s not divorce however a separation check at residence from the open end result. In reality, the EU selections will sculpt the sections of the longer term Euro -Freeting Cohabitation. So Trump determined.

The day after the shock of the beginning of the negotiation between the United States and Russia on the top of Ukrainian and Europe, probably the most instantly however nice excluded, to present the mark of the occasions is that doctrine of the double syllogism, with the second subordinate to the primary. An previous African proverb involves thoughts: that of the sheep who spends life to concern of being devoured by the wolf to finish up within the stomach of his shepherd. Metaphor of a union at present torn aside by the concern of Putin’s Russia however betrayed, incredulous, by her nice protector.

Between the United States and Europe, relationships haven’t at all times been idyllic. Never earlier than, nevertheless, he had undergone such a blatant humiliation, marginalized by a negotiation that instantly considerations his safety linked to that of Ukraine and his relationship with Russia, simply because the hyperlink with NATO is finished extra unsure. Never earlier than, within the identify of a peace that anybody can solely hope, America had chosen to take sides with the attacker towards the aggregation, rewarding Putin with the legitimacy of using the power for the answer of the disputes , trampling worldwide legal guidelines and ideas.

The Trump scheme for Russian-Ukraine pacification not solely ignores the calls for of Brussels and Kiev however in actual fact deserted Ukrainian in Moscow with the no to the restoration of pre-2013 borders, the no to entry into NATO and the no to ensures security with US defend however completely entrusted to the Europeans, helpless with out NATO.

There are those that evoke Monaco 1938 and the sale of Czechoslovakia to Hitler’s Germany, who Yalta 1945 and the autumn of the iron curtain on half of Europe. On every little thing stands out the loneliness of the 2 protagonists of the match diminished to supporting actors: of Ukraine, three years of conflict and a million wasted deaths. Of Europe commanded by Trump to mobilize troopers and capital to reconstruct what stays of a rustic in items. Of Europe that to maintain the Atlantic alliance alive should finish “an unbalanced relationship”. Feasible in slender occasions or is it a problem greater than her?