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No Security Guarantees for Ukraine? Trump’s Move is Exactly What We Need
A Turning Point for Global Stability — and It’s About Time
When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said earlier this month that he was willing to send troops to Ukraine as peacekeepers — but wanted the United States to backstop the decision — all I wanted to do was one thing.
I wanted to stand in front of the Prime Minister, grab him by both shoulders, shake him vigorously, and yell into the sky — Wake up!
With National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell by his side — a man I’ve come to respect — for a brief moment, I thought Starmer might actually be trying to stop the United States from continuously drifting, and finally drowning, in the Kremlin sinkhole. That desire to arrest the drift may have prompted Starmer to say he needs the United States to back up his efforts.
But history has proven that these kinds of expectations — that Europe will take care of its own security, that it is on a clear and defined path to securing its own future — are futile. Any relationship with the United States is toxic.
- It is toxic for Ukraine.
- It is toxic for Europe.
- It is toxic for Russia as well.
Trump has given the Kremlin such a dopamine high over the last two weeks that now they’re staring into depression as Zelensky is en route to sign a minerals deal with him. Insane highs and…
