Steven Pifer
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Friday visit to the White House turned into disaster. Vice President J.D. Vance provoked a fight in front of the press that poisoned the meeting and left US-Ukraine relations reeling. This comes after three weeks of President Donald Trump making concessions to Vladimir Putin, for which the United States received nothing in return.
February 28 will go down as a bad day for Ukraine and a good one for the Kremlin. It will also go down as a bad day for US security interests. If Ukraine loses the war—on the battlefield or as result of a shoddy peace deal—the Russian threat to Europe and the United States will grow.
European leaders met with Zelensky on Sunday to discuss how to move forward and hopefully reengage Washington. They also should be contemplating how they will proceed if Trump is unwilling to do so and ends US assistance for Ukraine.
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