US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin want “impose” his plan on the war in Ukraine on President Volodymyr Zelenskyaccording to the former head of diplomacy of the European Union Josep Borrell.
“In my opinion, Trump and Putin have an agreement, , and Trump is in charge of ensuring that this agreement is accepted or imposed on Zelensky,” Borrell said this Monday in a speech at the
“He didn’t do it when Zelensky was in the White House (in August) because he was surrounded by all the Europeans who went there, in some way supporting him, but in the last meeting he seems to have done so,” he added.
Borrell referred to Friday’s meeting at the White House in which, according to the newspaper this Sunday, Financial Times, Trump if he does not accept Moscow’s conditions to end the war.
The former high representative of the EU for foreign and security policy between 2019 and 2024 has opined that Trump has told Zelensky: “Hey, this war has to end and you have to give up territory. Period. And if you don’t, Russia is going to destroy you. “That’s clear.”
He has emphasized in this regard that “Russia is going to destroy Ukraine depending on the capacity that Ukraine has to defend itself”, and that the European Union must consider what it is going to do “if the United States” does not give that capacity to kyiv.
“This is the existential question that Europe has to answer itself. Are we in a position to help Ukraine defend itself even if the United States does not?” he said. “There are surveys that say that when you ask young Europeans Are you willing to defend your country with weapons in your hands? only thirty percent say yes,” said Borrell, who is now president of the CIDOB study center and distinguished senior researcher at the Elcano Royal Institute.
The Spanish diplomat, who shared a panel at the forum with former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, recalled that “Europe is a peace project, that is built from the renunciation of the use of force”.
And now This project faces a world where “the force is present, too present, and that requires that Europe change its perspective and do things for which it was not designed”, such as drawing up a defense policy, just as it is required to draw up a housing policy, something that does not strictly fall within its powers either, he pointed out.
