1 December 2024

The Pitfalls for Europe of a Trump-Putin Deal on Ukraine

Fredrik Wesslau

The real risk is not the prospect of a Trump-Putin deal struck above the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans. It is, rather, that Putin will use Trump’s desire for a deal to extract concessions from the United States, split the West, and undermine Western support for Ukraine. This would make it easier for Russia to subjugate and take political control of Ukraine; rearm and recover with the strength of the Ukrainian economy and population; and prepare for the next attack on a European country. What’s left of Western alliances and the European security order would be permanently destroyed.

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