This year’s Munich Security Conference unveiled the cracks in the core values that separate the Trump administration from most Europeans, and issued a deep warning to the US efforts to control the Ukrainian peace process and eliminate the European government.
This is what some of the major European and US newspapers had to say about it.
Le Monde
Through JD Vance, its vice president, the United States, wrote Sylvie Kauffmann for the French title, “Declared an ideological war in Europe.” If Vladimir Putin turned on the US in his famous 2007 speech at the conference, it was the US that turned on Europe in 2025.
In “a toxic diatrib to European democracy accused of restraining freedom of speech and religion,” Vance says, “its most fundamental values” not Russia or China, but the biggest threat to the continent is It said that Europe’s own withdrawal from some.
Worse, his relative silence on the “topics Europe was most hoping to hear him,” a Russian Ukraine all-out invasion, was “trump’s aimed at ending the war.” It prolongs understanding and confusion about the initiative,” Kaufman said.
“A thick fog surrounds Washington’s intentions. There has been an increase in contradictory positions between Vance’s official statement and various interviews with U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, which continued rejection,” she said. I said that.
New York Times
The US administration was “providing a preview of a redefinition of transatlantic relations built on postwar bonds of stability between Allied governments,” the paper said. I stated.
It also reminded readers of Putin’s 2007 speech, which the Russian president “requested for a rollback of a new balance with European American influence suitable for Moscow,” saying, “I got what he wanted to get into I couldn’t get in.”
Now, Trump officials say, “I made one thing clear: Putin has found an American administration that may help him realize his dream.” The comments raised fear that the US will either form an alliance with Russia and attack Europe or abandon it altogether.”
He said that such a change was in a much more important victory (Putin) than any other Ukraine objective.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Commentator Daniel Brosler said at Munich-based Süd deutsche Zeitung that Vance had not come to the German city to give him a “friendly wake-up call” but he said “arsonist.” The US Vice President’s mission was “The victory of right-wing populism – support of American billionaire chief Elon Musk.”
His silence on security policy states, “Because work has not only started with a deal with Putin at the expense of Ukraine, but it also brought Europe. This is clear.”
Europe said it was being attacked by President Putin, and by Trump, who no longer recognizes the common interests, and certainly no general value.
On the one hand, the US “requires that Europe will ultimately be able to protect itself from Russia. On the other hand, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Ovan will be co-leader of alternative Fut German land. From Alice Weidel of Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, he supports Putin’s henchmen and prophets.
The continent “will have to go beyond itself,” he said. Editor Detlef Essinger said Vance “a trick that populists and authoritarians have used for years… The principle denies others everything you do yourself.”
This “confuses them. It puts you attack and enemy on defense. It gives you sovereignty over the terms. And the argument is not the person who is having a better argument, but owns the terms. It wins by whoever does it.”
Kyiv Independent
“The US administration is ready to hand Russia a victory in a brutal war against Ukraine, and that is the only conclusion we can,” the paper said in a dull editorial. The words and actions of Trump and his team go “beyond tempering.”
But that adds that the US may be “Ukraine’s biggest and rich allies have,” but that’s far from the only one. The real decision on whether Russia will win the war or not actually sits with Trump. That’s the same as Europe. ”
European leaders say that “we need to be “the true leader of the country, not political opportunists, and recognize the urgency of the situation and act now. After all, the US is out and Ukraine is If they fall, Europe will face Russia one.”
Russia “is not a war with Ukraine, it’s a war with the West. And if it’s an important part of the desert in the western world, you need to make sure that the rest will appear for battle.” No one, Ukraine He said he wanted to end the war more than people.
“But we understand that compromise with Russia is not the end of the war. There is no compromise in this war. Russia wins – the West loses. The West wins – Russia loses. Europe, time It’s here.”
