Zelensky’s White House meeting with Trump was a disaster—for Ukraine and for NATO. With America's support collapsing, Europe faces a choice: step up or step back. Ian Bremmer unpacks the fallout in this Quick Take.
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Ian Bremmer's Quick Take:
A Quick Take after a very historic day, yesterday, President Zelensky meeting President Trump, Vice President Vance. That meeting, in the White House, was a disaster, at least for Zelensky, a disaster for America's NATO allies. For the last three years, Republicans and Democrats together have supported the Ukrainians and Zelensky in response to Russia's illegal invasion and occupation of a large part of that country. The US has also been in lockstep with its NATO allies, with the Europeans, with the United Kingdom, with Canada, in that support for Ukraine. That has now decisively broken.
President Trump has said that he is not on the Ukrainian side. He's neutral, he's on the side of peace. He's a peacemaker. He just wants to end the war, and that does not mean supporting Ukraine going forward. In fact, because he felt offended by Zelensky, who was not adequately deferential to the American president or the vice president, he said, basically, I'm cutting off support. I am allowing you, by continuing to support you, I'm allowing you to believe you have leverage you don't have. You should accept peace on my terms, and so I'll cut you off and then we'll see how well you can fight.
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