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Bad news for Starmer and Macron. Vance confirms the only US security guarantee in Ukraine will be the mineral deal. He also plays down British & French peacekeeping troops as “20k troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.

To the hand-wringing Europeans who felt offended by President Trump rejecting being lectured by President Zelensky: Be my guest to defend Ukraine from Putin. It is long past time for the Europeans to show they are capable of defending their own continent.   They’ve allowed their militaries to be hollowed out and when Europe speaks, no bad guy listens.   I say this with great sadness: The last group of people that I would count on to defend freedom are the Europeans.

So since so many Europeans and US Galaxy Brains are worried about Trump caving to Russia and Europe not being at the big boy table, let me give my European friends some advice on how you could flip the table, gain leverage, and become a player again: 1. Massive arms package to Ukraine including flooding the zone with the most advanced weaponry. 2. Make public multilateral statement that no matter what the US does, Europe will work with and aid Ukraine in its defense against aggression of sovereign borders 3. Layout a path to European Union membership that includes the full Ukrainian borders 4. Deployment of individual European state forces to Baltics and other similar states for training and assistance purposes All of a sudden, Europe has blown up anything Trump has done and forced his hand making any deal he strikes with Putin irrelevant. I doubt Europe will do anything but issue a press release promising to create a committee which will explore the issue and form another committee to write a white paper. However, if you want to be relevant, do something like this