{"id":661795,"date":"2025-12-30T05:28:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661795\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:28:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:28:13","slug":"europes-5-stages-of-grief-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/661795\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s 5 stages of grief \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Next, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that the U.S. and Russia would negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine<\/a> \u2014 without Ukraine\u2019s or Europe\u2019s involvement. And then came Vice President JD Vance\u2019s speech at the Munich Security Conference, where he said that the biggest threat to Europe wasn\u2019t Russia or China but \u201cthe threat from within<\/a>, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, at the end of the month, Trump and Vance confronted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, on live television. \u201cYou don\u2019t have the cards<\/a>,\u201d Trump exclaimed, berating Ukraine for failing to end a war it had not started, and ignoring how Ukrainians had valiantly held off their subjugation and occupation by a much larger foe for more than three years.<\/p>\n

So, by February\u2019s end, Europe\u2019s denial turned to anger.<\/p>\n

When I met with a foreign minister of a major ally just days after Munich, the longtime supporter of the U.S. appeared despondent. \u201cYou stabbed us in the back. You\u2019re leaving us to deal with Russia alone,\u201d he shouted.<\/p>\n

But the anger lasted only so long, and in the next few months, the bloc shifted to bargaining. Key European leaders convinced Zelenskyy to forget about the Oval Office showdown and tell Trump he was fully committed to peace. Europe would then join Ukraine in supporting an unconditional ceasefire \u2014 as Trump had demanded.<\/p>\n

\"\"In August, stage three \u2014 bargaining \u2014 quickly gave way to stage four \u2014 depression. | Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Similarly, in April, when Trump announced his \u201cLiberation Day<\/a>\u201d tariffs, hitting allied countries just as hard as non-allies, the U.K. and the EU moved swiftly to negotiate deals that would lower rates from the initial levels of 25 percent or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Next, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed that the U.S. and Russia would negotiate an end to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[473,7057,5293,32,2000,6562,299,5187,77074,601,660,809,602,332,811,479,1201,6717,1771,657,49,333,2601,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-661795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-defense","9":"tag-defense-budgets","10":"tag-diplomacy","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-eu27","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-from-across-the-pond","17":"tag-jd-vance","18":"tag-kremlin","19":"tag-negotiations","20":"tag-pete-hegseth","21":"tag-russia","22":"tag-security","23":"tag-tariffs","24":"tag-trade","25":"tag-transatlantic-relations","26":"tag-u-s-foreign-policy","27":"tag-ukraine","28":"tag-united-states","29":"tag-vladimir-putin","30":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","31":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115806871160611794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}