Europe fears Trump will cut a deal without them, scrambles for Plan B
European leaders suddenly remembered that an unpredictable Trump could decide their continent's security over a single lunch, so they are rushing to pull up their own chairs.
Diplomats in Paris, Berlin, and London are quietly working on their own negotiation track for ending the war in Ukraine. The reason is dead simple: nobody in Europe wants to wake up one morning and find out Washington and Moscow resolved European security between golf swings.
France and Germany are driving the push, while the British are nodding along nervously, trying hard not to upset Washington. Europeans know any real talks will still run through the US, but they are terrified of being left in the hallway while their future gets carved up.
Nothing fuels European strategic autonomy quite like the sheer terror of being entirely forgotten by an ally.
Source: The New York Times
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