We have never reached an all time low as European countries – including the UK – as of now, Martin Jay writes. 

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What did we just witness? Europe’s leaders in a close meeting with Donald Trump trying to hammer out a peace deal with Ukraine and Russia? Was it for real or staged? When UK’s Keir Starmer kicked off with a two-minute monologue and people from his own country were looking for subtitles, you knew this was bullshit central on steroids. Trump’s idea of bringing them all to the White House only really had three distinct objectives, even if he hadn’t worked them out himself. Firstly, to appease Russian leader Putin who he wants a closer, warmer relationship with for business; secondly to give the impression that he is committed to finding a peace deal in Ukraine; and thirdly to make the point again that America is back and even though the U.S. is not the world leader it once was, within a European dynamic it is more of a superpower than ever before. We have never reached an all time low as European countries – including the UK – as of now where our leaders sit outside Trump’s office and wait for him to finish important business with real players – in the world of grown-ups and their deals – before he invites us into his office. The photo taken really summed up Europe’s problems which have lead to the crisis in the first place: no leadership.

When Trump started heaping praise on the cohort of failed EU politicians and then added to the circus medley “it’s Biden’s war” you know from the off that there was going to be no real future and that the meeting was a sham.

What’s really going on is Trump recalibrating himself with Putin while moving into the safety zone of world affairs as a gargantuan distraction for the U.S. press, while in reality the U.S. economy moves steadily towards a recession following Trump’s blundering with his tariffs plan and the Epstein scandal just puts more and more pressure on him. The recent publication of a book in the UK which shed more light on Trump’s links to Epstein and his underage girl honey trap has just injected more adrenalin into the on going saga – claiming that Trump had sex for the first time with Melania on the Lolita Express jet owned by Epstein and that he in fact was close to Prince Andrew.

The reality is that the Ukraine war and its so-called peace deal is a convenient go-to place for Trump while he humours Putin and tried to pull him out of a hole which he dug himself. If new deals can be done while Putin meets Trump in Russia while supposedly meeting with Zelensky, then this might not be such a bad thing for U.S.-Russia relations, but who is holding out any hope for a real peace deal in Ukraine when Zelensky has made it clear he won’t give up ground and won’t agree to his country signing any deal which blocks NATO entry. Trump claims that Putin has already agreed to a NATO-type coalition of western countries to have their armies amass in Ukraine with an Article 5 type agreement protecting all and one, just like NATO but not in NATO’s name. But his own Russian ministry has denied this and stated emphatically that this cannot be accepted. So what’s the real story here when we venture through the dust cloud and even pass through the smoke and mirrors mainly created by Trump’s main magician’s trick – to lie to the press and play the role of conjuror constantly providing new ideas for media to play with without actually identifying the core issue?

The Europeans are also lying quite a bit. They pretend, along with Trump, they also want a peace deal whereas in reality they can’t contemplate it as, at all costs, they need to keep Zelensky in power and any peace deal immediately comes with a heavy price: elections.

The reality is that they want more time and this is why Germany’s chancellor in the meeting called for a ceasefire. Who said Germany was an irony-free zone? It was Chancellor Merkel who admitted that the Minsk agreements which were drafted and signed earlier with the express purpose of buying time for Ukraine so it could re-arm. And so for Chancellor Merz to try and pull this stunt – when everyone knows that the Europeans’ stockpiles are very low and it could take years for EU countries to give Ukraine the kind of ordinance it needs in the time frame it requires to even hold back a Russian advance. Mertz thought it was worth a shot trying to buy time but in fact it was already spotted by the Donald who had already been briefed by Putin “no temporary ceasefires…we’re not falling for that one again”.

Time is really the issue now which explains the haste of Trump to try and patch together a series of meetings to try and win over Zelensky and his European patrons. Trump knows that Pokrovsk in Eastern Ukraine is going to fall to Russian troops and if that happens in the next 7 weeks before rains come and tank movement becomes very hard, then the Ukraine war will more or less be over and there will no longer be the pretext of a peace negotiation with Putin. Winner takes it all. This is the real reason for the haste and why Trump is being so absurdly complimentary to EU leaders.

We are literally watching the fall of NATO and the EU and how the U.S. will always be the victor in the end, although it is unlikely that Trump favours NATO losing its credibility when Russia advances. It seems that both the U.S. and EU are attempting to avoid this massive PR failure but with the EU elites standing to lose so much more and needing America more than ever, making the Marshall Plan look like a kiddies’ picnic. Depending on how much MAGA support he is preparing to lose as he continues to funnel U.S. tax dollars into the pockets of Zelensky and his cabal, will determine whether after the failed talks between Putin, Zelensky and Trump he will still stick with the Ukrainian president.

At some point, the mantra “Zelensky is the real problem” will resonate and at this moment we will see if he has been honest with us all along, or has been playing a double bluff. Certainly the new golden relationship between Trump and Zelensky who appear like a loved-up couple signals that most of what we see in front of the cameras in disingenuous at best and completely fraudulent theatre at worse. The biggest lie peddled though is that Trump had nothing to do with the war starting in Ukraine. This is simply untrue and needs to be called out but don’t expect U.S. journalists to do that, as, just as Oliver Stone says, they don’t have any sense of history.