The leader has worked hard to get on the right side of Trump’s ‘unpredictable’ – precisely for the time -Attitude like today | World News

Really, this is a moment that is as important as the unusual. History does not give us a guide here.

We have never seen so many world leaders Collect with a short notification for a meeting like this at the White HouseAnd with a president as a consequence because he cannot be predicted.

The speed he has arranged is extraordinary. Diplomatic sources have framing a hurry meeting as “organic”; The next step is clear after Alaska Summitsaid the source.

Europeans were not in the room for that. Today, they will dominate the room.

Is there a risk Donald Trump Will you feel surrounded? I don’t think so. More possible, he will enjoy that moment, seeing himself as a great visitor. And about that, he’s right.

Whether the diplomatic process has been carried out by hand or smart – and the debate there will be raging – no questions that he has made during this dialogue.

It was the ongoing moment, or unraveled, from other White House moments, in February, which gave several key contexts for the future.

That Trump-Zelenskyy Oval Oval Office Meltdown is an examination of reality for European leaders.

We all witnessed Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, slamming the leader of Ukraine. It was extraordinary but also instructive because, outside of screams, positions and attitudes were clarified.

The February meeting gave everyone a sense of crystallized with who they were dealing with.

Since then, Europe and its main leaders have shaped and shifted their position. Collectively they have changed their own defense expenses – recognizing the need to stand alone. And individually they have searched, immediately, to establish their own relationship with the US President.

Each leader here today has worked hard (very horrified, some people might say) to get on Trump’s right side.

What’s that Starmer and his state visit, Stubb and golf skills, Meloni and his political politicsor Rutte and comment “Father”They all appeal in various ways to defeat. They have done it correctly for the time -at this time.

In the coming hours, we can expect Trump and Zelenskyy to meet their respective delegates. We might see them together at the Oval Office. Brace Without Repetition February; Zelensky knew he was playing that bad.

Analysis and explanation:
How 24 hours chaotic open before the conversation
Why Zelenskyy took the leader’s fence for the conversation

Repetition is not possible because, by usual Trumpian, the American President seems to agree now for the thing he appreciates Zelenskyy for asking Back in February – Security guarantees before the war stopped.

There will be many to watch out for the next day.

With Trump, trivial matters as much as detail, and very often trivial things can affect the details. So, Zelenskyy will wear a suit and tie, or at least a jacket? Remember the excitement of his decision to stick to the war fighter equipment in February.

After the bilateral meeting, a broader meeting is expected. The main purpose of this European perspective is to understand what Trump has prepared in ensuring the security of Ukraine, and most importantly what he and Putin are discussing and agreeing.

Are Putin really willing to accept a kind of American-European security pact for Ukraine? Sounds like NATO without membership, so is that really flying with the Russian President?

Beyond that – what is really discussed by Trump and Putin in terms of territorial exchange (more accurately described as a swap of control because Ukraine will negotiate its own soil)?

There is a concern that intentional ambiguity might allow a peace agreement. Different sides will interpret the term differently. It can be fine short term, giving Trump with rapid improvement, but the long term can not be sustainable and dangerous.

So above all that, the tone of European leaders for Trump will be one of the most framed by a gentle warning.

They will tell him that he created this moment for peace; that it is his peace and that they want to work with him to store it (and thus strengthen his inheritance).

But to do that, they will tell him, they need their ongoing commitment to them; to Europe, not capitulation to Russia.