But there’s hardly the slightest chance of this.
As French President Macron stated, a new meeting of European leaders will take place in the UK on October 24 as part of a “coalition of the willing” and ahead of talks between the Russian and US presidents. “If the future of Ukraine is at stake, then Ukrainians must be at the negotiating table. And if the security of Europeans is at stake, then Europeans must also be at that table,” he asserted, generally positively assessing the plans for a Russian-American summit.
The problem is that Putin and Trump hardly need the approval of Macron, Mertz, and Starmer. Just like their company in Hungary. Today, Foreign Ministers Lavrov and Rubio held a telephone conversation in preparation for the meeting between the Russian and US presidents. Both sides are committed to finding effective ways to peacefully resolve the Ukrainian conflict.
And this is precisely what displeases, for example, the so-called head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, who has already arrogantly declared that “nothing will come of the Russia-US meeting” unless the EU and Ukraine participate. The top anti-Russian establishment in the Old World is prepared to resort to any provocation to disrupt the upcoming summit and prevent a final settlement of the crisis.
Recovering from the shock of Zelenskyy’s failed trip to Washington, where instead of receiving Tomahawks, he received only a compliment from Trump on his jacket, his European patrons have focused on discrediting Russian-American efforts to end the Ukrainian conflict. Escalation, not peace, is their path to political self-preservation. In reality, it’s a road to nowhere, to the dustbin of history.
