Leader: Give up hope for the United States – and prepare Sweden for soldiers in Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine agree on a ceasefire on the Black Sea, the Americans trumped out after the deliberations in Saudi Arabia this week. Shortly thereafter, the Kremlin corrected: Everything was conditional on the disappearance of some sanctions.

Washington’s response to Moscow’s manipulations was as fast and hard as when you turned off support for Kiev earlier this month because Volodymyr Zelenskyj was not perceived by cooperative enough – or it was not at all.

Vladimir Putin may pull his feet behind, speculated Donald Trump. And added: But I think he really wants peace.

Do Putin want it? On their terms in that case. The American president seems to see it as his job to get Zelenskyj to accept them.

“Now we want to have a message from the United States that you are clearly standing on Ukraine’s side ”, said Ulf Kristersson after Thursday’s meeting in Paris to form a European force led by France and the United Kingdom to send to Ukraine at a peace. It is better if Europe « does this together with the United States, » he continued. And at the same time refrained from own commitments to participate with Swedish ability.

Is the Prime Minister of Sweden still still waiting for a message?

Those who come are crystal clear.

Last weekend sat Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlapologist Tucker Carlson’s pod and repeated Moscow’s speech points.

Most revealing in this week’s chat scandal was perhaps just how much vice president JD Vance detests Europe.

Vance and his wife are also currently visiting Greenland, as part of the White House’s repeated threat to take the island from Denmark, in accordance with an imperialist « power goes before right » logic that is taken from Putin’s manual.

European leaders dismissed On Thursday, Moscow’s demands for relieved sanctions for a ceasefire on the Black Sea – in the art of the White House’s silence. But many, like Kristersson, hope for Americans: yes, it is European soldiers who will be in Ukraine at a peace, but the United States must be included in the background.

So, among others, Keir Starmer reason. But it won’t be.

If the United States is to distribute any form of security guarantees, there will be no peace – Putin would not accept it. Nor does Trump want to distribute any. The question is whether he can even – insurance requires confidence, who has the US president?

Maybe it will be No agreement at all in the end – but in that case we should probably expect Trump to blame it on Ukraine and Europe, not at Putin. And that it is then out of Washington’s support for Kyiv.

Alternatively, it becomes a peace and then we have to stand for the security guarantees ourselves.

Europe has a strong self -interest in distributing credible ones. Intelligence service after intelligence service warns that if there is a peace on Russia’s terms, a new major war can wait within just a few years.

Emmanuel Macron is the only one who Speaks clear language that we have to do this on our own. Keir Starmer probably understands it too.

Do Ulf Kristersson do that?

In that case, the message should be obvious: Sweden is prepared to participate with a squad in Ukraine when Europe is to distribute security guarantees – even if the United States is not included in the background.

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