2025-08-18
15 分钟This is The Guardian.
This afternoon, an update.
Can Europe's leaders drag Trump back on track?
It's not every day that the most powerful leaders in Europe rip up their schedules and drop everything to fly halfway across the world.
But that's exactly what Keir Starmer and his counterparts are doing for Vladimir Zelensky today,
freaked out by what happened in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Friday.
Trump flew to Anchorage all guns blazing,
promising a ceasefire and threatening very severe consequences if the Russians didn't comply.
Instead, After three hours with Putin in the sub-Arctic chill,
he suddenly seemed in favour of a long-term peace settlement,
designed very strongly in favour of Russia.
That's why Starmer, along with a dream team of European heavyweights,
have invited themselves to the White House today,
where they'll back up Zelensky
as he pleads with Donald Trump not to agree any sort of deal with Russia without him.
The fact that all these leaders...
have torn up their schedules and flown out to Washington at very short notice shows how important it is and shows how alarmed they are about what happened in Alaska.
And it shows this is not just about Ukraine,
but it's very much a pivotal moment in which the future of European security will be decided.
From The Guardian, I'm Helen Pitt.