European leaders commit collective suicide at a support Ukraine meeting convened by PM Keir Starmer in London

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CNN and other major media are today carrying video clips on their youtube channels giving us a glimpse of the 19 or so European and transatlantic leaders who gathered in London to discuss with Volodymyr Zelensky how to continue their cooperation in defense of Ukraine following the debacle in the White House in Washington yesterday, when Zelensky was humiliated before the television cameras and was shown to the door. Among the 19 whom I counted when they posed for the obligatory group photo were  Emmanuel Macron, Donald Tusk, Georgia Meloni, Justin Trudeau, Mark Rutte, Ursula von der Leyen.

In the few introductory words delivered by Keir Starmer, we heard that their common mission is to provide for European security, in which defending Ukraine plays a vital role. They seemingly wish to arrive at a common position on defending Ukraine that they will later present to Washington.

The problem with this is that they are knowingly running directly against the now crystal clear position of Donald Trump to wash his hands of Zelensky and to allow the Russians to finish up this war as they see best. The U.S. is about to cut off shipments of arms prepared by Biden in his last days and will surely not send any further weapons to Kiev out of its current budget.

It is utterly bizarre that these stubborn Europeans think that they have some leverage with Trump. Their blindness is not merely to the obvious fact that absent the participation of the USA in the war effort consisting of materiel, money and critically important satellite intelligence to guide battlefield operations, the Ukrainian forces have no chance whatsoever of standing up to Russia.  Europe’s possible aid will solve nothing.

More to the point, when they speak of European security, they overlook the fact that without vibrant U.S. participation in NATO, NATO can fold its tents since it will be nonfunctional. It lacks the air lift, the armaments manufacturing capacity, most everything to sustain a war that will last more than a few days.

By their present gathering, these leaders are setting the stage for a U.S. pull-out from NATO.  They forget how the United States under any president, not just Donald J. Trump, reacts to defiance from allies.  Just think back to 2003 when Germany, France and Belgium had the temerity to veto the U.S. drafted resolution before the UN Security Council approving the planned invasion of Iraq over alleged weapons of mass destruction.  Within days, French wines were being poured out into the gutters, French fries were renamed ‘freedom fries’ and there was outrage and indignation across the land.  No less will result from the stupid, pig-headed action of these European heads of government in London today.

As for Keir Starmer, he must be the stupidest of the lot.  When in Washington meeting with Donald Trump, he was offered a tariff free trade deal with the USA that his country has sought ever since Brexit. He failed to see that this was the deal:  you get tariff free trade if you just shut up about Ukraine.  But shut up this oaf could not do.  As they say in Washington, there now will be consequences.

On related news of the day, it appears that King Charles today gave an audience to his good friend Volodymyr Zelensky.  And does he still expect Donald Trump to come calling for the state visit and private dinner with the King that Starmer delivered during his visit?

©Gilbert Doctorow, 2025

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Gilbert Doctorow's latest book, "War Diaries. The Russia-Ukraine War, 2022-2023" is a unique contribution to literature on the war thanks to the author's reports on the Russian home front written during his periodic visits to St Petersburg at a time when Russia no longer issued visas and nearly all Western journalists had left the country. Doctorow's two-volume "Memoirs of a Russianist" published in 2020 also constitutes a category of its own, consisting largely of diary entries rather than reminiscences written decades later.. Volume 2 focuses on the community of 50,000 expatriate managers working and living in Moscow during the 1990s, about which none of his peers has yet to write. Gilbert Doctorow is a professional Russia watcher and actor in Russian affairs going back to 1965. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College (1967), a past Fulbright scholar, and holder of a Ph.D. with honors in history from Columbia University (1975). After completing his studies, Mr. Doctorow pursued a business career focused on the USSR and Eastern Europe. For twenty-five years he worked for US and European multinationals in marketing and general management with regional responsibility. From 1998-2002, Doctorow served as the Chairman of the Russian Booker Literary Prize in Moscow. During the 2010-2011 academic year, he was a Visiting scholar of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University. Mr. Doctorow is a long-time resident of Brussels.

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13 thoughts on “European leaders commit collective suicide at a support Ukraine meeting convened by PM Keir Starmer in London”

  1. Well one supposes, for all the brave talk.

    The EU has no armies to send to Ukraine’s aid. Even as the latter are now clearly losing the war.

    The UK is particularly absurd 10 times more horses than tanks and more admirals than warships.

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  2. True, the EU appears to be digging its own grave.

    This morning, Belgian Dutch-language public broadcaster VRT assembled four “experts” on the weekly Sundaymorning programme “De Zevende Dag” (The Seventh Day): FT-journalist Barbara Moens, former EU-commissioner Karel De Gucht, retired army general Marc Thys and Leuven University professor Ria Laenen. All these people only focused on more war, apparently ignorant – or in denial – of Jeffrey Sachs’ address to the EU-parliament last week. All they could come up with was “a coalition of the willing” and a statement that Europe could field 1.5 million soldiers to secure a ceasefire.

    I watched this crazy spectacle with curled toes. Antwerp University professor Tom Sauer, consistently advancing a peace narrative and scarcely invited to TV current affairs programmes, informed me that he never watches “De Zevende Dag”. How sensible.

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  3. as the saying goes barking dogs don’t bite..first real kick in their teeth will shut them up…an unambiguous US walk out from NATO commitments will do the trick of scattering them howling and yelping..all these brave EU attack dogs..how pathetic

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    1. Trouble is there’s no such thing as Europeans, even if Eurocrats do exist.

      The belief is utterly misplaced, the EU would implode if it had to actually try and gear up for war.

      Much less field a real army, rather than toy soldiers.

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  5. Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson as UK leadership represents the bottom of the barrel. The US has about 10,000 military personnel in the UK which should be removed, along with their equipment, so they are not endangered by UK walking into an ambush of the UK’s construction. If the rest of Europe decides to ignore US leaving the UK, then continue the removals country by country.

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    1. No need, the US could yank the UK leash by pulling a “Suez” on them.

      Quite quickly too. It’d actually be a painful favour.

      Even by low recent standards. Starmer is a wretched PM and about as popular as a dose of the clap.

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  7. And then there are the Canadians, without a doubt, dumber than most. Actually, dumb like stick…

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  8. I think (it may be wishful thinking) that the non Scandanavian and non-British parts of Western Europe would only cry crocodile tears if NATO goes under, the rest of Europe (excluding Hungary and Slovakia) would be terrified.

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  10. One thing to keep in mind as well is that multiple Eurorat intel agencies cooperated with U.S. demonrats to horrifically slander Trump during the 2016 election for the express purpose of damaging his electoral chances. It is very likely they were involved in Grand Theft 2020 as well.

    Do you think Trump has forgotten that?

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