{"id":929147,"date":"2026-04-30T19:43:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/929147\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:43:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:43:56","slug":"dont-beg-moscow-eus-top-diplomat-warns-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/929147\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t beg Moscow, EU\u2019s top diplomat warns \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, meanwhile, is floating a limited Victory Day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/04\/30\/kyiv-shuns-moscows-victory-day-truce-asking-for-long-term-ceasefire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ceasefire<\/a> as it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-scales-down-may-9-military-parade-amid-ukraine-war-struggles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scales back<\/a> its May 9 parade, dropping tanks and heavy equipment for the first time in <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-victory-day-parade-3c0e2619140194148dd94c730775ee3f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">nearly 20 years<\/a>, a sign of strain after months of losses and Ukrainian strikes deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Europe is being forced to rethink its own defenses. <\/p>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/29\/trump-us-reducing-troops-germany-00899352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">threatened<\/a> to pull American troops out of Germany, raising fresh doubts about Washington\u2019s commitment to European security, after repeatedly saying he is reconsidering <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/us-donald-trump-considering-pulling-out-of-nato\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America\u2019s membership<\/a> <\/strong>of NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas warned Thursday that Russia is \u201cgearing up its military for a long-term confrontation with the West\u201d and that \u201cshowing weakness only invites aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Across the EU, governments are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-ukraine-russia-ready-for-war-2030\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accelerating plans<\/a> to bolster military readiness, including the \u20ac150 billion SAFE loans-for-weapons program as part of a broader push that could mobilize up to \u20ac800 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can be no return to business as usual with Russia,\u201d Kallas said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow, meanwhile, is floating a limited Victory Day ceasefire as it scales back its May 9 parade, dropping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[331,8612,473,32,2000,299,5187,805,1824,774,2596,2597,332,2663,811,2824,657,49,771,231032,335],"class_list":["post-929147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-banks","tag-cyprus","tag-defense","tag-donald-trump","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-foreign-policy","tag-germany","tag-iran","tag-kaja-kallas","tag-military","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-security","tag-tanks","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-war-in-iran","tag-war-in-ukraine"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116495375862401764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929147","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=929147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}