Keir Strandmer: Can he get Trump from Putin back to the West?
Keir Strandmer: Can he get Trump from Putin back to the West?
It is time for Keir Streamer . The British Prime Minister has spent months to build a friendly relationship with Donald Trump and has showered the US president with flattery since he was elected in November. In Trump's words he was "very nice".
a crucial visit to Washington
On Thursday, Straßer could finally get something tangible in exchange. His visit to Washington is the greatest foreign policy challenge with which an incumbent has so far been faced. In a critical time for the future of Ukraine, Strander appeared as a potential bridge builder: someone who can dissuade Trump from his confrontational tendencies and the fear of the West.
The other scenario looks less rosy: Strait could find that he builds a bridge into nowhere. He and Trump are not natural political allies; Your past is stressed and there is a striking abyss in your worldviews. Strander emphasizes the "special relationship" between Great Britain and the USA at every occasion, but this relationship is becoming increasingly bumpy. They have different objectives. "The missions could not be higher," Claire Ainsley, Strander’s former managing director of politics, told CNN. "(The visit) is a big test for relationships between Europe and the United States as well as between Europe and the United Kingdom." Trump's attitude towards Ukraine has overthrew this centuries -old transatlantic alliance in uncertainty, as was the case with many others, including the American relationship with NATO. The President has applied to the rapprochement of Russian President Vladimir Putin, attacked Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj and hardly reacted to the calls to Europe, which was excluded from negotiations on the end of the conflict. Straßer follows the French President Emmanuel Macron, who on Monday Washington , to clarify these conflicts. He will also prepare the way for Selenskyj's visit to Washington on Friday. All three want to secure a peace plan that Ukraine and Europe can accept: a plan that does not reveal a Ukrainian territory and is supported by America. Great Britain and France lead diplomatic efforts to create a potential European peace mission that could be sent to Ukraine if a ceasefire agreement is achieved. Nevertheless, this plan depends on an American security presence: probably a “reinsurance” with aerial arena, stationed in a neighboring NATO country like Poland or Romania. On Monday, Trump said to report that "Europe will make sure that nothing happens after an agreement". However, Strander emphasized that Europe cannot carry this burden alone and that American support is the only way to prevent Putin from attacking again. more urgent will try to convince Trump to include Selenskyj in the talks about the future of his country. This is the most fundamental demand in Europe to Trump; The continent is very concerned about a pro-Moscow deal that could be imposed on Selenskyj. However, he enters an unequal field. Strander has an obvious problem: this visit is of much greater importance for him than for Trump. The president has little time for European powers; He threatened with massive tariffs and turned away from the decades of American foreign policy that had put the security of Europe at the top of Washington. Strand made a significant gift before his trip and announced on Tuesday that Great Britain will increase its defense spending by 2027 to 2.5 % and 3 % by the middle of the coming decade. This unexpected acceleration of the government goals represents a massive edition and is urgently necessary; Experts say that the British military is greatly reduced. A comprehensive review of the British army will soon be completed, and nobody expects the results to be positive. "We have to change our national security strategy, because a cross -generational challenge requires a cross -generational answer," said Straiter when presenting new politics. "Courage is what our own time now demands from us." He later admitted to journalists that the events of the past few weeks have accelerated this step. The talks on Thursday will examine the two tracks of in Europe to Trump. A group wants to withdraw. The likely next German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said after his election victory on Sunday that Europe should achieve "independence" from the United States and criticized "outrageous" American interventions in the policy of his country.
Straßer, like Macron and the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, belongs to the other group; He is convinced that, if he is really convinced, Trump can be brought back from the claws of Putin's hug. And there are only a few other leaders who can do that. "There will be no choice in the foreseeable future. We have a stable, center-left government. Therefore, we can play an important role in these conversations, as other leaders may find out," said Ainsley, the former chief consultant for politics. challenges for the British-American relationship
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