Europe, with its world-class defense industries and resources for training troops, can help build Ukraine’s future army so that Russia must reckon with a far more powerful adversary than the one it has fought since 2022.
It might have hoped that a mineral accord worked out with the Trump administration could pave the way for American arms sales paid for by Ukraine with its mineral revenues.
Yet Europe can help Ukraine build a well-trained army with top-flight weaponry – one that Russia will find an even tougher opponent than it does now.
The vice-president spoke over Zelenskyy, accused him of ingratitude for the assistance provided by the United States (“Have you ever said thank you?”) and of disrespecting Trump, his host, and, for good measure, scolded him for litigating his country’s case in public.
He and Trump didn’t hold a press conference; a state dinner was scarcely possible after the Oval Office fiasco; the US-Ukraine mineral deal is likely dead – and Zelenskyy left.
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