Discordant Trump team statements on Ukraine leave allies anxious

The captive windshield forced US Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, in a quick turn, like his plane, on the way to the Munich Security Conference, was to return for an hour on the flight.

High Diplomat in America, his high -ranking officials and Traveling Press returned to the Andrews Air Base near Washington, Colombia County on Thursday night.

But despite the scare of air, the news was already firmly elsewhere. In Europe, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegset stunned the allies in America, which stated what many saw as a number of concessions of Ukraine to sign any peace treaty with Russia by President Trump.

HEGSET said that it is unrealistic to think that Ukraine could regain its sovereign territory occupied by Russia, as well as its NATO membership demand, adding it to European rather than in the US to preserve peace.

Critics, including some Republicans in Washington, made a speech, saying that it distributed all Ukraine’s leverage on the eve of any negotiations. They claimed that they claimed that US President Vladimir Putin’s surrender.

“This is definitely an innovative approach to negotiations to make very serious concessions before they started,” said former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, jointing at the European Council on Foreign Relations, an analytical center.

The next day, Gegset returned some of what he said. He specified that all the options actually remained on the table to use Trump as an impact between Putin and the President of Ukraine Valodimir Zelensky.

“The fact that he decides or not allow is the entry of the leader of the free world, President Trump,” said Hegset. However, he added that he “just pointed to realism” and rejected the idea that Moscow offered any irreparable concessions.

As for Rubio, the defeated plane dragged his arrival to Munich, where his officials briefing his own priorities for the trip.

The United States will work in a “fair and lasting peace” in which European countries will bring attention to the creation of a “solid security frame”, they said.

European leaders are expected to meet in Paris on Monday for urgent negotiations aimed at their countries to fully participate in any Ukrainian peace talks.

The US Secretary of State did not contain traces of the issue for Ukraine, as the Minister of Defense did. Then, also in the German city, Vice President J. D. Vens said the United States could use “military tools” to force Russia to make a deal, looking contradicted by Heagset, which stated that US troops would not be deployed in Ukraine.

Later in the Oval office, the fall from HEGSET speech was handed over to President Trump -together with a commentary on the Republican Senator, who called it a “mistake”, as what can write about -pladit.

If Trump knew hegset was going to say? “Generally speaking, yes, I was generally,” the President said. “I’ll talk to drink, I’ll find out,” he added.

The three days and here gave some first basic ideas about Trump’s development on one of the most subsequent questions he faces – a full -scale invasion of Ukraine and his promise to stop the war – as well as in how his administration is the formation and message about his external Politics.

As for this, the HEGSET performance – together with the long statement of Trump about, obviously, a warm phone call with Putin, directed to the start of negotiations with Ukraine – sent shock waves through the European capitals, despite the attempts of Gegset to go back.

“Any quick correction is a dirty deal,” said the head of the European Union’s foreign policy Kaj Kalas about the prospect of a transaction under the leadership of the United States with Russia, which can leave Ukraine’s voice in Baku.

Then the question arises about the US foreign policy under Trump. What happened in Munich seemed partly an attempt to interpret and pass on Trump’s positions, but these efforts have sometimes led to an explosive and often contradictory statements – some of which were partially diluted or inverted.

It is not yet clear how much this is the result of a new but unreasonable administration that still clarifies its lines to take internally, unlike the intentional feature of the presidency, less concerned with officials who freelance with rhetoric, even if it sows some confusion As long as they remain faithful to his last word.

In the first term, Trump appeared a series of high -profile detention or resignation of top officials who contradicted or disagreed with him, including three national security advisers, two defense secretaries and secretaries.

This time its appointments were more often characterized by readiness to exercise loyalty. Pete Hegset, who did not have the previous experience of driving a military, government or agency, was the leading Fox News weekend and a former National Guard major, which is greatly consistent with Trump’s thinking and agenda.

His appointment was very challenged and purified through the confirmation process when three Republican senators voted against him, seeing the result was associated with 50-50 and JD Vance rejected the vote.

According to Trump, this week he was “good” with the idea to take Ukraine, which joined NATO from the table, calling it “not practical”.

Hugset’s comments were unlikely not to correspond to the president’s position – rather, they were the strengthening of his viewers who sought to take on Ukraine’s negotiation position, rather than weaken it.

The task for those who have suffered is that the exact position of the US foreign policy should be broken. One of its features is uncertainty. This may well be intentionally – Donald Trump using the theory of foreign relations “crazy” – often attributed to former Republican President Richard Nixon.

This suggests that being powerful but unpredictable is a way to make the Allies stay nearby, forcing opponents. It would also explain the sense of their own officials, but within the parameters of the widely known positions of Trump.

But, as the name of this theory implies, it also carries significant risks of errors or miscalculation in the already tough and uncertain world.

Trump’s latest proposals for Gaza – empting it from the Palestinian population to build a “Riviera of the Middle East” under the US property – similarly imbued with confusion and contradiction.

While his officials tried to fix some of the fact that he laid out – as soon as the “temporary move”, for example, Trump was later twice, saying that he would actually be “permanent” without the right to return.

As for Rubio – who wants the State Department to be the most influential state agency when it comes to Trump’s decision -making – his colleagues’ comments in Munich have already obscured his own.

Its smaller, replacement of the aircraft, finally landed in Europe – windshields untouched, but without press -pool on board, while most headers also went elsewhere.