As Ukraine peace talks kicked off in Saudi Arabia, European leaders frantically held an “emergency” meeting of their own. President Donald Trump gave his French associate Emmanuel Macron a buzz on February 17, to calm their anxiety with a few details of the plan. Half the continent remains convinced that they’re being forced into defending themselves from Russia. The part that has them terrified is that means they need to pay for it.
Talks spark conversation
Peace talks in Saudi Arabia have sparked a major conversation across Europe. American press remains stunned over the way Trump’s slashing through the bureaucratic red tape with a chain saw.
They can’t get any federal judges, even liberal ones, to file an injunction against peace in Eastern Europe, so they’re only reporting the things they have to.
According to The Hill, Trump spoke with Macron in a “friendly” call which “lasted about 30 minutes.”
The French president was in a hurry to scurry off to talks of his own about the war in Ukraine. He was hoping to have some good news for the mob of howling globalists waiting for him at the office.
Nobody is saying much about what Trump had to say, other than an assurance that they weren’t being left out of the loop. Talks in Saudi Arabia were only meant to be preliminary at this juncture. They aren’t ready to negotiate a thing yet.
Trump will probably meet Putin in Riyadh in the near future. After that, he plans a trip to Moscow. Europe isn’t believing him.
Paris summit conference
The press is a whole lot more interested in reporting on the talks in Paris. After Macron hung up the phone with Trump, he strolled into his conference room to face British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, among others.
The main topic of conversation was the impossibility of raising an army of their own.
He was fuming over what Trump had to say about him to Macron. Trump declared that if he was such a great negotiator why didn’t he end his own war by now. He’s had three years to do it.
By the time they wrapped it up, they had one clear point they could agree on. They “must have a role in U.S.-Russia talks about Ukraine.”
They have no idea how they can make that happen with talks happening in Riyadh. All they can do is hope Trump realizes that a peace deal in Ukraine has to be “lasting” and “not just a pause for Putin to come again.“
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