<h6><strong>Eduardo González</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The former EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, stated this Monday that the presidents of the US and Russia, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, already have “an agreement” on the future of Ukraine, and the American president is “in charge” of getting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “accept it.”</strong></h4> “In my opinion, Trump and Putin have an agreement, an agreement they forged in Alaska, and Trump is in charge of ensuring that agreement is accepted or imposed on Zelensky,” stated the former Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and president of the CIDOB think tank during his speech at “World in Progress,” an international forum for reflection and dialogue on major global challenges, organized by Grupo Prisa and El País in Barcelona. According to Borrell, during "their last meeting" last Friday at the White House, Trump warned Zelensky: "This war has to end, and you have to give up territory. And if you don't, Russia will destroy you. It's that clear." The former head of European diplomacy is thus citing information published this Sunday by the Financial Times, according to which Trump confessed to Zelensky on Friday that Ukraine was losing the war and that if they didn't reach an agreement, "it was exposing itself to destruction." The European sources cited by the newspaper indicated that the US president had repeated to Zelensky "Putin's arguments about the conflict, urging him to accept the Russian proposal." In his speech at "World in Progress," Borrell also warned that "Russia will destroy Ukraine depending on Ukraine's ability to defend itself." "If the United States doesn't give it to them, are we going to give it to them?" he continued. “This is the existential question Europe must ask itself: Are we in a position to help Ukraine defend itself, even if the United States doesn't? This comes at a cost. And it's not just about paying, but about having the industry to provide the weapons,” he added. “Europe is a peace project, built on the renunciation of the use of force,” but, at this time, “force is present, too present, and that requires Europe to change its perspective and do things it wasn't designed to do,” including designing a defense policy, he warned.
