For a moment there, it was touch and go. You could see the domino-sequence of outcomes, one after the other, each of them a tombstone on European history.
Before the summit, it sounded like we were once again heading for this type of disastrous outcome. “President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to,” Trump said ahead of the meeting, in an exact reversal of moral and empirical reality.
This time he arrived flanked by Europe’s leading political figures: British prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni, Finnish president Alexander Stubb, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Nato secretary general Mark Rutte.
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The attendees were seasoned Trump influencers – snake charmers really. By turning it into a de-facto summit, they pushed Trump into behaving like a gracious host, or at least doing a passable impression of one. In a toe-curling series of obsequious introductions they praised the US president, and surreptitiously presented their own demands as the genius achievements of Trump himself.
I wonder what it is like for Americans to watch these sorts of proceedings. Perhaps, for some of them, it will be flattering to see powerful European nations go to the White House and adopt this performatively subservient role. But of course the entire presentation is deeply insulting to anyone with a hint of intelligence. People do not talk this way to a person they respect, nor do they act this way with a power they admire. They are using sweet words to manipulate. It is the way you would talk to a child.
It is incredible that this man, who is fighting for the survival of his country, must spend any time at all thinking about the sartorial vanity of the US president. That even one brain cell was devoted to this subject should shame America, but it is unclear if enough Americans still remember the better values of their country or what its role used to be.
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But we should be clear about something. This summit is a humiliation for Europe. Last week’s meeting between Trump and Putin was a humiliation for Europe. Every aspect of this arrangement is a humiliation for Europe. Because in every instance it involves decisions about Europe’s future being taken over Europe’s head. They may be able to nudge Trump in the right direction for now, but the continent’s future should not be dependent on being able to suitably influence a thin-skinned madman on the other side of the Atlantic.
Europe is now finally starting to rearm, but we must be realistic. It will probably take a decade for the continent to be ready to operate militarily without American assistance. For now, leaders must continue to flatter and seduce Trump, so that US involvement continues.
Unless that happens, we’ll be back here in 10 years time, having our destiny decided for us by people who aren’t fit to touch Zelensky’s shoes.
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