While the negotiations between America and Russia on ending the war in Ukraine continue, the most comments are coming - from Europe, which is not even involved in the negotiations.
"There will be no just and lasting peace in Ukraine without the participation of the Europeans," said French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barot at a meeting of ministers from France, Britain, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, Ukraine and the European Commission.
Nobody seems to have even looked back at this warning from Europe. The talks between Russia and America about the conditions for the cessation of hostilities in Ukraine have heated up, so the politicians from the Old Continent can only comment at the moment.
How did the argument go?
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Donald Trump for Ukraine not participating in the negotiations. He first angrily stated that Trump was being influenced by Russian disinformation in his efforts to bring about an end to the Russian-Ukrainian war, but on terms that Kiev says are too favorable to Moscow.
To that, Trump, whose meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is on the horizon, said that the president of Ukraine is a "dictator without elections".
"Let's think about it, the moderately successful comedian Volodymyr Zelensky persuaded the US to invest 350 billion dollars in a war that cannot be won and that should never have been started, a war that he could never calm without the US and Trump," wrote the American president, who wrote his name in capital letters.
So he then accused Zelensky of misusing American aid for the Ukrainian war effort and of taking advantage of former US President Joseph Biden's administration.
The exchange of harsh words between Trump and Zelensky came after senior officials of the Trump administration and Russia met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and agreed to negotiate a peace in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Trump, who promised during the campaign that he would end this war quickly, once again expressed the view that Zelensky should have negotiated peace earlier and told him that he had better act quickly, or he will have nothing left of the country.
Support from Europe
Europeans, on the other hand, supported the president whose country's destiny is being shaped without his presence.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that "it is wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelensky his democratic legitimacy", and that it is a lie and dangerous that Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator, the German newspaper "Spiegel" reported.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer made it clear that he supported Zelenskiy in the phone call, the British Prime Minister's spokesperson said.
In the European Union, they arranged an emergency meeting because of Trump's statements.
"President Trump expresses views that are extremely self-righteous every day, without consulting European countries." France tries the hardest of all countries to understand those statements, but we simply don't understand the American logic," said French government spokeswoman Sophie Prima.
Why is there no Europe at the table?
Branka Latinović, former ambassador and vice-president of the Forum for International Relations of the European Movement in Serbia, commenting on the meeting between the USA and Russia in Riyadh, assesses that a new international order is being created and that we are returning to a bipolar world, as during the Cold War, she told N1.
He also says that this is also a question of whether or not to be for the EU, which was neither consulted nor informed about it properly before the meeting in Riyadh.
"Neither the USA nor Russia want Europe as a geopolitical player. They want it to be neutralized and to be under their cap, which should not be surprising, given that neither Trump nor Putin likes Europe, that is, the EU. Putin, because he wants to achieve that dominant influence in Europe. This is where the EU is a hindrance. And Trump for the reason that he believes that the EU was created to reduce and undermine the general power of America, both in Europe and in the world. And now they have found themselves there, they have a mutual agreement, a tacit agreement that Europe should not be actively involved in issues that concern, first of all, the establishment of peace in Ukraine," Latinović believes.
Dimitrije Milić from Nova the third time thinks that the meeting between Russia and the USA was more of a fumbling, than a serious negotiation, he told Nova.
Milić added that a large part of this meeting was in fact about relations between Moscow and Washington, and not about peace in Ukraine.
Source: Vreme/N1/Nova
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