EU failed to Trump-proof Europe and now faces humiliation over Ukraine
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Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:35:39 +0200
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As Putins actions again disrupt the start of a Munich security conference, Brussels largely has itself to blameEurope live latest updatesThe start of the Munich security conference has a habit of being disrupted by a display of power by Vladimir Putin.
In 2022, the transatlantic security establishment gathered in the knowledge that Putin was days from launching his attack on Kyiv.
In February 2024, the opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in disputed circumstances in a Russian jail and this year Russias leader is on the brink of opening talks with Donald Trump that many analysts predict will end with Russia not just gaining Ukrainian territory but dismembering Ukraine as a sovereign independent state.For Europe it is a humiliation.
And yet little that Trump or his defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, said on Wednesday about their approach to a ceasefire including the USs refusal to commit further resources to Ukraine could have come as a shock.
Indeed Europe largely has only itself to blame.
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