Summary
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that Britain and France will develop a Ukraine peace plan independent of US-Russia talks, following Donald Trump’s hostile meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Starmer coordinated with French President Emmanuel Macron and other allies to support Ukraine and repair strained ties with Washington.
Meanwhile, the UK signed a £2.3bn loan deal to fund Ukrainian arms purchases.
Starmer emphasized the need for American cooperation and expressed skepticism about Vladimir Putin’s commitment to any agreement.
The waning influence of America is a positive development in the long run. Hopefully, they can find a solution to address the short-term challenges.
I don’t think it’s positive for peace. The pax-Americana has been one of the most peaceful times in all of history. Without them we are likely to go back to big countries picking on small countries again and other small regional conflicts as there is no recourse for doing so.
The desire for keeping “good old times” of pax-America are exactly what Trump is leveraging to extract more juice out of Europe and others.
Time to get out of this abusive relationship, and face the challenges in real life.
I think it’s the exact opposite, he’s tearing down all the sources of soft power and goodwill that this peace was based on. He’s going back to the merchantilist and imperialist “every man for himself” strategies of the 1800s.
It’s positive for the rest of the world, not so much for America.
Not necessarily, a more equal world and no-longer-exceptional America would give more common people an opportunity to better see the weakness in the political and redistribution system, and creating opportunities for fundamental change. That can be a painful process but for the long term good.
In the long term, it will mean America will have a weaker position at every bargaining table. From trade deals, to immigration, to military engagement. And sure, in a lot, if not most cases, that’s better for the world. For the US it will mean more hardship and more poverty, leading to more crime, leading to more right wing extremism. And unlike unwinding the Soviet Union, when America unwinds, there’s going to be and axis of China and Russia waiting to step on everyone else. Russia isn’t building enough guns to defeat Ukraine, they’re aiming to build enough to defeat Europe. And they know they couldn’t do it if America were there as a back stop. He’s also counting on the EU being too afraid to send nukes.