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Trump has put Europe where its leaders, like France and Germany, wanted to put it themselves in the years before the Ukraine War—when West European nations were looking at a world without as much US influence as now or in the post-war past

February 28 on-camera Oval Office showdown between US President Donald Trump and his Ukraine counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy has caught the world unawares; weekend developments later may have shown that the former may after all have his way on the endless war in Europe.

The 19 leaders, including Canada’s Justin Trudeau, possibly the odd man out in what essentially was a European conclave, are now talking not about backing Ukraine to fight Russia to the very end, but about a ‘peace plan’ that would convince Trump, instead, to take charge of negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war, from where he had left after their summit talks at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a fortnight back. Or, so it seems.