{"id":257560,"date":"2025-03-12T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/europe-welcomes-a-ukraine-cease-fire-offer-and-a-revival-of-u-s-aid\/"},"modified":"2025-03-12T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T15:01:09","slug":"europe-welcomes-a-ukraine-cease-fire-offer-and-a-revival-of-u-s-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/12\/europe-welcomes-a-ukraine-cease-fire-offer-and-a-revival-of-u-s-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Welcomes a Ukraine Cease-Fire Offer and a Revival of U.S. Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/03\/12\/multimedia\/12int-ukraine-europe-01-qbck\/12int-ukraine-europe-01-qbck-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Europe Welcomes a Ukraine Cease-Fire Offer and a Revival of U.S. Aid\" title=\"Europe Welcomes a Ukraine Cease-Fire Offer and a Revival of U.S. Aid\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Europeans reacted with relief to the announcement on Tuesday that Ukraine had agreed with the United States on a 30-day cease-fire in its war with Russia and anxiously awaited Moscow\u2019s response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They were relieved <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/11\/world\/europe\/ukraine-us-saudi-cease-fire-talks.html\" title=\"\">because Washington announced simultaneously<\/a> that it would immediately restore military and intelligence support for Ukraine. And there was expectation that Russia must now respond in kind, or presumably President Trump would put some kind of pressure on Moscow analogous at least to the blunt instruments he used against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe ball is now in Russia\u2019s court,\u201d said the two European Union leaders, Ant\u00f3nio Costa and Ursula von der Leyen, in coordinated <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/1899538326438261074?s=12&amp;t=MOSgjZAteduH-LXCGSCOJw\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">messages on social media<\/a> welcoming the deal and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cn0jkyk01dzo\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">echoing the statement<\/a> of Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in the same sentence the European leaders also welcomed the resumption of U.S. security support to Ukraine, giving it equal emphasis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe welcome today\u2019s news from Jeddah on the U.S.-Ukraine talks, including the proposal for a cease-fire agreement and the resumption of U.S. intelligence sharing and security assistance,\u201d the message said on Tuesday. \u201cThis is a positive development that can be a step toward a comprehensive, just and lasting peace for Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They also tried to remind Mr. Trump and his team that if Washington wants Europe <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/03\/world\/europe\/europe-ukraine-russia.html\" title=\"\">to guarantee any peace deal in Ukraine<\/a>, Europe wants to be at the negotiating table. \u201cThe European Union,\u201d the message said (hint, hint), \u201cis ready to play its full part, together with its partners, in the upcoming peace negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In general, European leaders were shocked by the anger displayed against President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/01\/us\/politics\/zelensky-showdown-trump.html\" title=\"\">now infamous Oval Office media gaggle<\/a> on Feb. 28 and Mr. Trump\u2019s apparent acceptance of the Russian narrative that Ukraine started the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They were also struck when Mr. Trump\u2019s special envoy, Keith Kellogg, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/keith-kellogg-ukraine-intelligence-sharing-pause\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that Ukraine had to be hit in the head, \u201csort of like hitting a mule with a two-by-four across the nose,\u201d to get it to comply with Mr. Trump\u2019s demands. The lumber turned out to be the denial of lifesaving American military and intelligence support to Ukraine, its missiles and its American-built fighter jets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That prompted some in Europe, like Nathalie Tocci, director of Italy\u2019s Institute of International Affairs, to wonder if Washington would do the same to them some day, and whether it was such a good idea to buy so much high-tech American weaponry, like F-35 fighter jets, that depends on American software and integration with American satellites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">European leaders gathered in Paris, London and Brussels last week and this one to promise Ukraine continued and even increased support. \u201cUkraine is a matter of our own security,\u201d said Norbert R\u00f6ttgen, a foreign policy expert and German member of Parliament for the Christian Democrats. \u201cIf Ukraine falls, it would be a clear threat to Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the key point, emphasized by President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, was that Ukraine needed American backing. Europe, despite all its vows to continue providing Ukraine with money and weapons, cannot replace key American capabilities like intelligence and missile defense, at least not in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So European leaders were also relieved at Mr. Zelensky\u2019s understanding of his quandary. After the Oval Office blowup, they <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/05\/world\/europe\/ukraine-zelensky-trump.html\" title=\"\">worked hard to convince Mr. Zelensky<\/a> to kowtow to the White House with repeated expressions of gratitude to assuage Mr. Trump. Mr. Zelensky did so, while promising that he continued to support another demand of Mr. Trump for providing the United States privileged access to Ukraine\u2019s mineral wealth, and a share of it besides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Europeans have been urging Mr. Zelensky to go along for now to put pressure on Russia and help Mr. Trump see that its president, Vladimir V. Putin, is the problem.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Europeans have also gathered to have preliminary discussions of what they might be prepared to do to guarantee a future longer-term deal between Ukraine and Russia. Much remains unknown, including the purpose of such a force, its size, financing and command structure. But the Europeans do know they will need American cooperation and air support to make such a mission credible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nor is it even clear that Moscow will relent on its current refusal to consider allowing European troops in Ukraine, given that one of the main aims of Russia\u2019s invasion was to keep Ukraine from joining NATO and allowing NATO troops to base there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Macron in particular has gone further, seeing the American turnabout on Ukraine as yet another sign that Europe must do more for its own defense and not rely so much on a United States that appears <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/27\/world\/europe\/trump-eu-allies.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">indifferent to Europe, if not openly hostile<\/a> to it, both economically and politically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now Europeans, like Ukrainians, wait for the response of Mr. Putin. So far, he and his officials have rejected the idea of a cease-fire before a final settlement of the conflict. And of course there are no guarantees that even if a 30-day cease-fire were put in place the war would not recommence, giving at least some the impression that Mr. Trump simply wanted a victory to show that he could stop the killing, even temporarily.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/12\/world\/europe\/europe-ukraine-cease-fire-offer.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europeans reacted with relief to the announcement on Tuesday that Ukraine had agreed with the United States on a 30-day cease-fire in its war with Russia and anxiously awaited Moscow\u2019s response. They were relieved because Washington announced simultaneously that it would immediately restore military and intelligence support for Ukraine. 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