The documents that the United States has sent to the European Union have annexes. And it’s these attachments that worry
Europe and Ukraine continue to try to figure out how they can come out on top in peace negotiations, but the United States is already thinking much further ahead. Always with an eye on business, Donald Trump made it very clear, in several documents, that there is more beyond the end of the fighting.
There is above all money to be made.
According to , among the various documents that have reached European partners is a series of financial proposals that promise to revolutionize Ukraine’s economy and perhaps even Europe’s.
The problem, at least from a European perspective – and certainly from a Ukrainian perspective – is that this plan envisages a complete return of Russia to the global economy.
From the already much talked about rare earths sector to oil drilling in the Arctic, Donald Trump wants to ensure that there is plenty of business for American companies, in what the White House hopes will be a restoration of relations with the Kremlin.
If these ideas still hover behind the scenes, what Russia is saying confirms that this is indeed the direction in which we are heading. Asked about this news from the Wall Street Journal, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov opened the doors to foreign investment, including that coming from the United States.
And one of the gateways to convergence could come into direct conflict with the European Union. According to the various annexes delivered by the United States, Donald Trump has a different idea for the more than 200 billion euros of Russian assets that are frozen on the Old Continent: instead of using them to rebuild Ukraine as a form of reparation, the American president suggests that they be invested in future projects, including a data center that will be operated from a nuclear plant currently occupied by Russia.
Some of the sources on the European side who spoke to the Wall Street Journal highlighted that they are not sure whether some of the proposals are to be taken seriously, in a clear sign that Donald Trump’s intentions were not well received on this side.
One of those responsible even compared some ideas to the now mythical Riviera that the President of the United States even suggested for the Gaza Strip. Another recalled the Yalta Conference, in which the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom agreed to divide Europe at the end of the Second World War.
In the opposite direction is the European Union, which is even in the process of approving a law that foresees the total end of imports of Russian energy by 2027. Furthermore, the issue of frozen assets threatens, in this way, to become an irritant among allies, and even among the 27 things are shaky, particularly because Belgium wants guarantees of legal protection, since that is where the majority of the money at stake is.
Basically, and as the Wall Street Journal writes, the divisions between the European Union and the United States threaten to go beyond territorial issues and now enter the economic field.
With Russia finally suffering the first economic consequences of several months and packages of sanctions – there is data of a technical recession in the last six months -, the European Union fears that North American investment will once again give strength to the enemy.
If the prospect of leaving Ukraine on the chopping block to grant Russia a military victory frightens Europe, the idea that the United States will not only allow it, but will contribute to the resurgence of the enemy is an even bigger thorn in its side.
