Trump handed the EU the corpse of Ukraine — and Europe said “thank you.” No formal protest, no defiance. Just one word: mitigate. The price of obedience: Europe’s silent role in its own decline.
After Nord Stream, after millions displaced, after deindustrialising their own people, they remain too spineless to even tell Trump “no.” This is not diplomacy; it’s a funeral procession for the European Union led by cowards.
Trump’s so-called peace plan is a circus — and like every good circus, it serves a purpose: misdirection, while the real act unfolds elsewhere. Washington is done with Ukraine. The pivot to China has already begun. All that remains is to offload the rotting carcass of this failed proxy war onto Europe, leaving London and Brussels to pretend they still matter.
And, predictably, pathetically, they accept the burden — like obedient functionaries. No strategy. No sovereignty. Just the reflex to obey and mitigate. Not my word — theirs, straight from Politico.
Yes, mitigate. Not resist, not oppose, not challenge. A term that belongs in a legal textbook, not a geopolitical strategy. It’s the language of bureaucrats managing their own decline — a continent once setting the world’s course now asking how politely it can adjust the margins of its own surrender.
They gather in Johannesburg, issuing statements of “concern,” while Trump spits in their faces with deadlines and ultimatums. And they call that diplomacy. They smile while he wipes the floor with their dignity. And the truth is — they’ve earned it. Every humiliating second of it.
This is the same Europe that stayed silent while Nord Stream was blown up — the single most strategic asset in modern German history — and then thanked its attacker with new LNG contracts and cheerful subservience. The same Europe that sacrificed its middle class on the altar of “standing with Kyiv,” now whimpering about budget shortfalls and “sustainable aid packages.” So desperate is their plight, they’ll risk what remains of their financial order to seize Russian sovereign assets.
Trump’s plan contains several points Russia will never accept — and everyone knows it. But Moscow won’t kill it. That’s not the move. Russia will let Zelensky and the Europeans do it — publicly, predictably, fatally.
That’s the brilliance here.
Putin calls it “a good foundation.” Not perfect, not final — but a foundation. That single word shifts the burden.
Now those rejecting peace while demanding a seat at Putin’s table will be the same ones who shouted “no negotiations” for four bloody years. Now those sabotaging diplomacy will be the ones preaching “rules-based order.”
Russia walks away looking like the mature great power she is. Europe walks away exposed — not just as losers, but as frauds.
Ukraine was sacrificed — not by Moscow, but by the Atlanticist elite. Sacrificed for a fantasy. Sacrificed to “weaken Russia.” Sacrificed to delay a multipolar future that’s already arrived.
And who led that sacrifice? London — the chaos agent, midwife to every modern disaster in Eastern Europe. It was Downing Street that sabotaged Istanbul. MI6 that helped spawn “Spiderweb.” Britain that told Zelensky to fight to the last Ukrainian — and the EU applauded like trained seals.
This is not the return of diplomacy. Yes, the US and Russia are talking again — and that’s something — but this moment marks only the redistribution of failure.
That failure now returns to Europe like a flaming briefcase no one wants to open. Trump doesn’t care if his plan fails — that’s the beauty of it. He gets the headlines for “seeking peace,” he gets to say “I tried,” and he walks away while Europe inherits the war, the debt, the escalation without Article 5, the migrants, the funerals, the shame.
Let them mitigate. Let them manage their irrelevance and humiliation. Let them carry the ghost of the war they helped unleash.
Russia as it looks, will outlast them all.
