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Ashok Swain, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University

Europe kneels before Trump in Washington

When Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned to the White House this week, he came flanked by an extraordinary entourage: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

One by one, the political heavyweights of Europe crossed the Atlantic to sit alongside Ukraine’s president in Donald Trump’s Oval Office.

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