Europe Panics as Trump Pursues Separate Peace Deal
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Europe Panics as U.S. Pursues Separate Peace Deal with Russia on Ukraine
Europe Braces for “Capitulation” as Trump’s U.S. Negotiates Direct Peace Deal with Russia, Leaving Allies in the Dark
European leaders are sounding alarms over what is describes as a “roller coaster of horrors” in U.S. Ukraine policy—now accelerating toward what some diplomats fear is a “capitulation” of Western unity. With the Trump administration quietly negotiating a 27-point peace framework directly with Moscow, the transatlantic alliance faces its most severe crisis since the Cold War.
The alarm stems from multiple developments. First, the new U.S. National Security Strategy demands that Europe “take responsibility for its own defense,” signaling reduced American commitment. Second, high-level U.S. envoys—including Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff—recently met Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin to discuss the peace plan, which divides proposals into four negotiable “packages.”
Critically, Kyiv and Brussels were not consulted in detail. According to Putin, the U.S. plan “could form the basis for a final peace deal,” but substantive talks have stalled because “the U.S. administration is clearly unable to secure the consent of Kiev.” He accused Ukraine and its European backers of living in a “delusion,” still chasing the impossible dream of “strategic defeat” against Russia—despite battlefield realities.
European diplomats, speaking anonymously, warn of a worst-case scenario: Trump could “reduce pressure on Russia, ban Ukraine from using U.S. weapons, and stop sharing intelligence with Kyiv—leaving Europe truly on its own.” Such a move would not only abandon Ukraine but shatter NATO’s collective credibility.
The deeper fear is existential: if the U.S. can unilaterally broker peace with an adversary it once called an “existential threat,” what does that say about the future of multilateralism? More urgently, can Europe defend itself without America?
As Macron seeks China’s help on humanitarian pauses and German students reject militarization, Europe’s strategic isolation grows. The transatlantic bond, once assumed unbreakable, now appears conditional—on Washington’s terms, not Brussels’. And in this new world, peace may come not through unity, but through realpolitik deals struck in backrooms, far from the eyes of allies.
