Since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, Europe wakes up almost every day with a share of resounding statements – for some unexpected – from Washington. After the exchange stretched with Volodymyr Zelensky, UKRAINE military aid seemed on the hot seat. And if as the next generation The Economist“no one wanted to believe in the worst scenario”, it was clear this Tuesday, March 4 in the early morning, as did the Polish tabloid Super expressthat “Donald Trump really did it!” : “In an instant, all American help in Ukraine has been interrupted.”
A decision with “few direct precedents in recent history of the United States” and which “considerably worsens the break between Washington and kyiv, at a critical moment of the conflict”, underlines the New York Times. It is then “a meeting at the White House on Monday, in which the vice-president JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the national intelligence of Tulsing Gabbard and the emissary for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, participated, that this choice would have been acted, learn our confreres of our confreres of Washington Post,, reminiscent that Donald Trump was “for a long time skeptical about helping Ukraine”.
Will thus be concerned by this decision “ammunition, vehicles and other equipment as well as transit weapons”, specifies across the daily life The evening. So many critical elements of American support in kyiv, described by the Washington Post as “essential to repel Russian invasion forces”. Reason for which, “without American intelligence, Ukraine will have trouble with dynamic targeting” assures The Economist. Understanding, the identification and attack in real time of the Russian targets.
Volodymyr Zelensky “hated” by the entourage of Donald Trump
What if for the British daily The Guardian“The Trump-Zelensky quarrel” served as a pretext for Donald Trump to suspend American support for Ukraine, the Belgian newspaper The evening ensures that the harsh discussion between the two leaders goes back well before the end of February. After El Mundothe 47th President of the United States and his entourage feed a clear animosity towards the Ukrainian head of state: “Trump hates Zelensky, his children hate him and make fun of him”.
This particular hostility would result from a resentment linked to a dismissal procedure: “Trump is convinced that Ukraine harmed him during his first impreach“, Specifies the Spanish daily, which ensures that” the White House wants to get rid of Zelensky “. In Rome, the Corriere della will be On the other hand, said that the calls for the resignation of the Republican camp and a Donald Trump which sails “in another dimension” will not be “long tolerated by the Americans”.
How long will Ukraine last without American help?
Especially since “this suspension also places the United States in direct opposition with its main NATO allies”, underlines the New York Times. At a time when Donald Trump puts Volodymyr Zelensky in the face of what the American daily Consider as “an ultimatum aimed at forcing Zelensky to accept a ceasefire with conditions dictated by Washington and Moscow”, Karolina Wigura and Jaroslaw Kuisz estimate in the columns of Guardian That after having “Westernized to achieve democratic maturity”, Europeans must “orient themselves to achieve maturity in terms of security and defense”.
Thus, the historian and the political scientist underline the need for the old continent to detach himself from the protection of Uncle Sam and to take charge of his own security. The fact remains that such a company requires time, money and a certain form of unity between European countries. And if for many European media, the change of doctrine in the United States is an opportunity for the twenty-seven to build a “defense Europe”, it remains difficult to say that they are really capable of it. One thing is certain, points out the New York Times : “The most immediate beneficiary of this decision is Vladimir Putin.”