Will the week that shook the world awaken Europe from its strategic slumber? On 12 February, Trump talked to Putin on the phone and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Nato leaders in Brussels that the US would prioritise domestic concerns and the China threat over Ukraine. Vance’s tough love speech in Munich, the Marco Rubio delegation to Riyadh for peace talks with Russian counterparts without Europeans and Ukrainians and Trump’s Truth Social spray at Zelensky followed in quick succession.
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