Europe's role in Ukraine's security after Trump's return

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte pose with Australian President Volodimir Zelensky at the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

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As January 20th, the day Donald Trump returns to the White House, is quickly approaching, Europeans are becoming increasingly anxious about the one crucial question about their security and the future of their continent: Will Trump abandon Ukraine and attack Europe with the stroke of a pen Sell ​​Vladimir Putin? The peace negotiations that the next American president will force are casting a shadow ahead.

France's head of state visited Poland this week to seek support for his plan to send European troops to Ukraine following a peace settlement. Berlin categorically rejected this, Warsaw at least for the time being. The French are worried about the risk of being left out of a peace settlement. The Germans because of the military and military burdens that come to their country. The Poles are weighing up whether they would be better off with Washington or Brussels. Typically Europe. You can see there: those who think they are gross, those who think small, the realists. In the end, Europeans will have to come together. There is no way around a coalition of the willing sending troops to Ukraine. It could convince Trump that the Europeans are serious. And it will deter Vladimir Putin from further attacking Ukraine.

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