In Europe we have already had a "peace plan" akin to Trump's proposal, which has brought many disasters to our continent. In 1939 the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was born a division of Poland – we read in a comment published on Friday in the paper "Münchner Mercury".
Now Putin and Trump want to do the same with Ukraine – Russia will get looted land, the United States will get mineral resources and Europe millions of fresh refugees – warns the commentator. In his opinion, a truce without hard guarantees of safety means that the war will be postponed for only a fewer years.
"The brutality with which Moscow under cover of peace negotiations bombards Kiev demonstrates Putin's determination to accomplish the goal of erasing a democratic neighbouring country from the map," writes writer "Münchner Mercury".
Europe now needs a coalition of willing to strengthen Ukraine adequate that Putin would be forced to enter into real negotiations. Germany needs to take leadership. Unlike the protracted Scholz, Merz seems ready to take over this function – we read in the conclusions.
"The latest rocket attack on Kiev has shown the Russian government what its readiness to negociate peace is. Moscow has started a war against Ukraine and wants to proceed it until the country is subdued or destroyed," writes Reinhard Veser in "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".
Commentator predicts that Trump and his surroundings will be held liable for Ukraine's ensuing fiasco of talks. In his opinion, this is not only the effect of Russian propaganda. "Trump and Putin together believe in the law of the stronger. If the weaker did not give way to threats and blackmail, he is guilty of himself erstwhile he gets hurt," Veser writes.
According to the writer “FAZ”, the EU and Ukraine were in a dangerous situation. Trump even "invited" Putin to test with provocation and fresh acts of aggression the defence capacity of Europeans.
The erstwhile German abroad Minister Sigmar Gabriel compared American proposals to the Versailles Treaty after planet War I. "Europeans know well how weak and fragile they are imposed from above + peace treaties+", Gabriel said. In this way, the United States would become “a typical of Russia’s interests”, he warned. "All of this is intended only to enable Trump's government to lose work and to quit the scratcher+ as shortly as possible," he criticized German SPD's politician.
