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The shockwaves from Trump’s ‘Thanksgiving Day’ peace plan for Ukraine
Despite efforts to amend the terms, the damage done by the initial demands will linger and extend beyond trans-Atlantic security ties.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio holds a press conference following a closed-door talks on a US plan to end the war in Ukraine at the US Mission in Geneva, on Nov 23.
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Europe’s leaders have realised long ago that dealing with US President Donald Trump is not a science but a roller-coaster journey in which one day you feel euphoric, while the next day you sink into deep gloom.
Yet nothing prepared the Europeans for their latest confrontation with Washington over the future of Ukraine. It was a shocking episode in which, at one point, the Europeans stared into the abyss, facing the prospect of a total disintegration of their eight-decade-long security relationship with the US.
