The new United States government is not walking through the branches as far as foreign policy is concerned. As his vice president, JD Vance, the situation of his country regarding the conflict in Ukraine is one of the clearest, unmarking from the hegemonic current in the West and demanding efforts to Moscow and kyiv.
However, in recent days, it has given the feeling that the US has a plan for the truce that seems to fundamentally count on the ‘OK’ of Russia but not with that of Ukraine -to the tenor of the phone calls between Trump and the presidents of Ukraine and Russia or the statements subsequently made by members of the US Executive.
One of them is his vice president, JD Vance. The Republican surprised everyone just two days ago when he made statements about the US position regarding Russia in case Putin’s strong core refuses to negotiate a peace in Ukraine. Given this hypothetical scenario, Vance said that his country has the necessary means to attack Russia with “economic and military influence tools.
This would happen in the event that from Washington it is detected that Moscow does not want to act in good faith, it puts obstacles in the peace agreements or directly, it does not collaborate. Among US pressure measures, Vance highlighted the Wall Street Journal, That the option to send troops to kyiv is “on the table.”
“There are economic tools of influence, and of course also military influence tools,” Vance told the newspaper. However, these statements missed much of the world, since during this week, the Trump government dropped the possibility that Ukraine “could be Russian one day.” All this within the framework of the peace negotiations initiated this week.
The US no longer looks at Europe
These statements attract more attention if one takes into account that the US has already confirmed to the world that Europe has ceased to be a priority at many levels, mainly in security, where NATO, which is the main alliance of defense of all countries Western, and sustained 70% by the US budget, seems to start its decline in the old continent. The US has already reported that or the rest of the countries’ the economic increase in this matter is taken seriously, or that the alliance will have no future.
“Europe is, of course, a very important ally for the United States, NATO is a very important military alliance… but we want to make sure that NATO is really built for the future, and part of that is to ensure that NAWAs share a bit plus the burden in Europe so that the United States can focus on some of our challenges in East Asia ”, were the words of Vance minutes before speaking with NATO general secretary, Mark Rutte.
In short, the United States intends to give a renewed image of not marrying anyone, of being alert to any enemy or friendly stimulus friend (at the military, economic, technological level …) and demonstrates not to trust anyone. And this seems to apply to all orders and all levels. In this way, Vance sends a coldly calculated and measured message to Moscow.
