Publisher: Dark Night of Ukraine

Through its special envoy, Steve Witkoff, based in Berlin, the White House is putting pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky to accept the compromise of a peace plan with Moscow which is nothing other than capitulation and resignation, despite some improvements which would allow … Ukraine will enter the EU almost immediately – avoiding the obstacle of Hungary or the Czech Republic – and will benefit from long-term defensive guarantees from the United States. As Ukraine is punished by Russian bombs, which left Odessa and three other regions without power Saturday morning, Zelensky is negotiating his nation’s future under pressure and threat: that of someone from Washington who has disengaged from a war he never considered his own. The victim, however, is not the country invaded by Russia in February 2022, but Europe as a whole, united from the first moment against the aggressor, but incapable of presenting itself over the last four years as a reliable security alternative. Trump’s “peace” is not a simple punishment for Ukraine, but a warning for Europe.