European warning to America about Crimea’s recognition

According to RCO News Agency, some European officials are worried that disputes over the unilateral draft of the Trump administration will challenge bilateral relations with London, Berlin and other capitals, undermine transcontinental security, and possibly disrupt the NATO summit in late June.

“Europeans have always been in a poor position to confront the United States,” said Jeremy Shapiro, US program director at the European Foreign Relations Council. “That’s why they have tried to avoid it.”

The US without European negotiations with Russia

The magazine writes in a post entitled “Europeans are concerned about the growing divide with the US over Ukrainian talks,” that Europeans hope for US -led negotiations on Wednesday; When US Secretary of State Marco Rubio dropped out of a meeting in London with Ukrainian and European officials, and Trump’s special envoy Steve Witekaf preferred to travel to the Kremlin for the fourth time.

The report claims that the Trump administration has submitted a draft agreement “either accept or reject” to Kiev; An agreement that, according to this article, is strongly in the interest of Moscow – including the identification of Russian sovereignty over the Crimea by the United States, eleven years after it attached the quasi -a -law “contrary to international law”.

Ukraine’s resistance to soil

Ukrainian President Walodimir Zelnsky once again refused to recognize Russian sovereignty over any Russian -controlled areas since they called “occupied”.

However, Kiev is ready to accept Russia’s practical control over these areas in exchange for Western security guarantees. Trump attacked Zelnsky’s position on Wednesday, calling it “very harmful” for peace and “provocative” efforts.

“He can choose peace, or fight for another three years, and ultimately lose the whole country,” the US president wrote on the social network of Truth Sushal.

US ‘great privileges’ to Russia, pressure on Ukraine

Washington’s proposal to recognize Russia’s control over the Crimean Peninsula, which is contrary to the NATO’s agreed policies, is probably the biggest concession given to Moscow in recent months.

The Trump administration has also rejected the Ukrainian membership in NATO, which has been Russia’s long -standing protest against NATO’s promise to a possible Kiev.

According to the English media, while Moscow has been given a lot of concessions, Kiev has been “pushed and threatened” and has “not received much for his soil.”

Europe stuck between two fronts?

Meanwhile, a senior EU diplomat told the Financial Times: “The worst scenario is when (America) fails to reach an agreement between Ukraine and Russia and everything falls to Ukraine. “In that case, Europe will have to choose between Ukraine and the US.”

Ukrainian officials said before the talks on Wednesday that they were ready to talk about other US agreement.

“Ukraine is ready to negotiate; But not to give up. “There will be no agreement that will strengthen Russia for more renewal and return to violence.”

Europe’s red line; Crimea belongs to “Ukraine”

Western officials told the Financial Times that European capitals would not support any US action to recognize Crimea as part of Russian territory or pressure to accept Kiev, insisting on their long -standing stance that nothing is contrary to Zelnski on Ukraine’s sovereignty.

In this regard, EU foreign policy chief Kaya Kalas told AFP on Tuesday, “Crimea belongs to Ukraine.”

Europe is concerned about the presence of Russia

For the Europeans, the acceptance of the Crimea’s annexation – the notion of land seizure by military force in Europe has been unacceptable since year 2, because the law -based order that generations in the continent of Europe is destroyed.

Another senior diplomat from the European Union told the Financial Times: “Crimea and NATO’s vision are our red lines. We can’t ignore them. “

The Financial Times claimed in its report that even if the United States acts alone, it would “reward” Russian operations and encourage Moscow to pursue its claims in Georgia and Moldova, and to “threaten” other Soviet countries such as Baltic countries – members of NATO and the European Union.

Crimea’s crisis; Europe on the verge of gap with America

According to a senior European official, the Trump administration had already been informed that European capitals would never be able to recognize Crimea as part of Russian territory.

The official said that the great European powers in NATO should prevent Washington from doing so unilaterally.

Crimea’s situation can create a major diplomatic crisis for NATO; A coalition whose official stance is that he never recognizes Russia’s control over the quasi -pseudver.

NATO attempt to deny the pre -crisis disputes

Prior to the US proposal, NATO officials were trying to make internal divisions overwhelming, insisting that the annual meeting of the coalition’s leaders in the Hague would focus on military spending, not war.

But the proposed agreement and the possibility of the United States to abandon the negotiations, to blame Kiev and to normalize relations with Moscow, could lead to a sharp difference between NATO leaders.

“The central issue of this meeting is our place towards Ukraine,” said a senior Western official.

Internal disputes in the European Union are also expanding

Similar disputes are likely to expand within the EU, especially if Washington decides to lift its sanctions, what to do with the EU economic sanctions against Russia.

“Things don’t seem good at all,” an EU official told the Financial Times.

“Any US action to recognize Crimea as part of Russian territory or call for European capitals to reduce sanctions against Moscow will destroy the unity of the European Union … the situation is extremely chaotic,” he said.

Europe concerned about US abuse of crisis for commercial privilege

The European capitals, which are at the same time as members of the European Union and NATO, are trying to reconcile with the Trump administration on the future of the US security and trade agreement to prevent a full -fledged tariff war that could severely harm their economy, and are concerned that Washington will use the crisis.

Doubt about Europe’s cohesion without the presence of America

Shapiro of the European Foreign Relations Council doubts the EU’s ability to maintain cohesion.

“If the Americans step down, it will not be possible for the Europeans to maintain cohesion in the Ukrainian issue,” he said. “Americans have been the source of unity on the issue of Ukraine.”

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