Given how the meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky went, Europe is reportedly being forced to consider the fact that they might have to face Vladimir Putin without the help of the United States.

Europe has relied on the United States as its ultimate security guarantor. That era is over. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made it clear: American troops will not stay in Europe forever. Donald Trump’s administration is negotiating directly with Russia,

European leaders have questions about what President Trump might do with U.S. troops and want to keep NATO posture off the table in his talks with Moscow.

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the United States.

As relations between the US and Ukraine sour, Europe is scrambling to fill the gap. Russia's frozen assets may be a solution.

European elites are caught in a dangerous cycle of self-fulfilling prophecy. They claim U.S. President Donald Trump is abandoning NATO.

These events are fatally reminiscent of events of 30 years ago, when the bloody war in Bosnia led Europe to proclaim the “hour of Europe,” which went nowhere. It was only through the active political and military intervention of the United States that this war was finally terminated and that peace was achieved, via the 1995 Dayton accords.

European leaders are planning visits to Vietnam in coming months to strengthen ties with the Southeast Asian nation, officials said, amid tensions with Washington that could impact their exports to the United States.

President Donald Trump said Europe made loans and the United States did not, but that’s not accurate. “Just so you understand, Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They get their money back.”