How are Europe and the US pulling apart on Ukraine? / Δήλωση στην αγγλική έκδοση του αραβόφωνου δικτύου Al Jazeera

How are Europe and the US pulling apart on Ukraine? 

Each side is trying to spend the other’s money on security, as they shift to a new geopolitical equilibrium.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/2/its-all-theatre-are-europe-and-the-us-pulling-apart-on-ukraine

Δήλωση στην αγγλική έκδοση του αραβόφωνου δικτύου Al Jazeera 

“You can never be sure with Trump. He is changeable,” agreed political scientist Theodoros Tsikas, but he believes political reality prevents Trump from straying too far into Putin’s camp.

“First, he wants the Ukrainian war to be resolved, so he can proceed with an economic cooperation with Russia on energy and mineral wealth.”

Secondly, said Tsikas, Trump “wants to free up US troops in Europe to recommit them to Asia”.

In performing this pirouette, “He can’t allow Ukraine to collapse in his hands, because he will have a huge political cost in the States – it will be a bit like [ex-US President Joe] Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. So even Trump has limits. The profile he sells is that of the winner. If he suffers a big defeat, that image collapses,” he told Al Jazeera.

For these reasons, Trump is willing to lend security to Europe, said Tsikas.