It is paradoxical. “500 million Europeans ask 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians,” the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk calculated at the weekend and thus expressed what is now more dawning after the scandal in the White House of European decision -makers: If peace is supposed to prevail again in Europe – and can do the latter more on acceptable conditions for Ukraine and its European allies. than to put on military aid and the United States as a protective power.