Joe Biden went on Thursday to meet his allies. One month after the start of the Russian invasion and the taking of unpublished sanctions, they always face the same dilemma: how to stop the war without doing it.
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“A month of war, six million people and half of the Ukrainian children displaced”: Thursday, March 24, in Brussels, on the occasion of an intense diplomatic day – a NATO summit, another G7, followed by a European Council, in the presence of the US President Joe Biden -, the high representative of the twenty-seven for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell returned to these four weeks that have changed Europe and gave up a momentum to the Atlantic Alliance. But they have not, to date, allowed to stop the war triggered by Vladimir Putin against Ukraine.
On February 24, here is just a month, Russia had just launched the invasion of Ukraine. Taken from the court, the Europeans organized their first summit of war, and Volodymyr Zelensky, in videoconferencing since kyiv, entrusted them that it may have the last time he would be able to talk to them. Since then, the Ukrainian president has multiplied virtual interventions, the Ukrainian resistance has organized and the Moscow offensive tramples.
Despite massive sanctions taken from the first days, and strengthened since over the weeks, despite the delivery of Western weapons in kyiv and the stinking of its offensive, Vladimir Putin still requires the surreminery capitulation. Ukrainian, making a ceasefire impossible. His army continues to besiege the country, including the Martyrdom city of Maroupol, and bombard civilians.
Now that the conflict settles, the Westerners took advantage of the coming of Joe Biden in Brussels to make a demonstration of unity, lack of really new decisions. “NATO has never been united as today,” launched the US President, at the end of the Atlantic Alliance Summit and the G7, just before finding the heads of state and Government of the twenty-seven: “Putin has succeeded the opposite of what he was looking for.” “Never the partnership between the United States and Europe was stronger,” Tweeted Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission.
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In reality, the Europeans and their American ally face a dilemma every day more difficult to overcome: do everything to avoid the extension of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, without going to war against Moscow, nor give up kyiv to his fate.
To counter Vladimir Putin, who has always been able to play divisions between the twenty-seven, the Western camp is aware that in four weeks already used many of the diplomatic, military and economic cartridges at its disposal. And wonders, to respond to public opinions mobilized by the Ukrainian cause as well as shaded by the return of war in Europe, how to do more.
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