The proposed summit risks echoing the 1945 meeting in Crime that divided Europe between the democratic and communist sphere.

From: Brendan Simms, professor of international relations history at Cambridge University / The Telegraph
Translation: Television. com

There are no words in Eastern Europe that are more likely to cause reaction than Yalta, the name of the Crimean resort where the Three High Reichs ♫ Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met to discuss Europe’s future in February 1945, while the Third Reich was in the final range. It was there that the American president and British prime minister agreed with the territorial requirements of the Soviet Union in particular with the annexing of much of prewar Poland and Stalin’s insistence on an area of influence in Eastern Europe.

Yalta sealed the division of the continent into a democratic (mainly) West and a communist East. Although much of this had already started until the time of the conference, and much happened later in Potsdam, Yalta’s miti is a short and proper way to talk about the process through which Soviet dictatorship swept halfway across Europe.

That terrible encounter comes to mind when you think of the proposed summit between Trump, Xia and Putin. This meeting where neither Ukraine nor Europeans seem to have any recent precedents. Some fear that these three men will share the world, giving Putin parts of Donbas, which he still does not control, giving Xia free hand to Taiwan and Trump some energy jeans he hopes to turn into electoral benefits in the mid-election elections for Congress in early November. The fact that Jalta is currently in Russia’s occupied Ukraine only adds to the injury.

Fear of a new Yall is not groundless. Trump certainly wants to get rid of the war in Ukraine, and his contempt for President Zelensky is well known. From the beginning of his second presidency, in February 2025, American officials held a summit with Russia to discuss Ukraine, which Ukrainians had been expelled from despite the presence of the People’s Republic of China ( RPK). And just as there were lots of useful idiots in Britain and the United States who appreciated Joe. [Stilani] and his totalitarian regime, there are more than enough people in Trump administration who consider Putin’s murderous Russia to be a kind of professional partner. They certainly view Ukraine as trivial.

However, there are good reasons why a 2.0 Jalt is unlikely to happen and, even if it happens, why it may not be put into effect. Trump’s stated main goal in the summit has nothing to do with Ukraine, not even oil and gas, but nuclear disarmament. The president has had, since the 1880 ‘ s, a fear of the atomic war that Putin has largely missed and is known to be concerned not only about six thousand of Russia’s frightening nuclear heads and rampant nuclear threats to China’s arsenal over recent years. For decades, The RPK was equipped with about 300 nuclear heads no more than France and the United Kingdom, but there are now more than 600, while many more are planned. The trumpet wants to stop or even reverse this trend, but there is no reason why Xi must satisfy that desire.

Moreover, both Putin and Xi will approach any such summit with extreme suspicion. Moscow is pleased with the lack of respect Trump expresses to Ukraine, but I know that the Trump administration has so far made life much more difficult than many realize since increased intelligence support for Ukraine (until recently), the tightening of sanctions on oil, and the massive increases in European expenditures for protection for which Trump is largely responsible. So far, at least, it has been trying to maneuver between Moscow and Beijing instead of co-operating with them, and the two capitals will be very cautious about any attempt to put one against the other.

In addition, the agreement on Ukraine’s back does not mean that the country will automatically be thrown into the Russian sphere of influence. Unlike Poland in 1945, Ukraine, for the most part, is not occupied by Putin, and its chances of defeating that country in the short term are slim even if America interrupts all intelligence support. It is no longer a buffer zone between East and West, an object with which the Great Powers could do as they please. Ukraine today is a whole subject of much more power than most European countries, and any solution will have to take into account that fact. The same thing about China is not the easy military victory that many people imagine.

In Yalta, Churchill and Roosevelt could at least claim to have some extenuating circumstances. They had fought a long war against Nazi Germany, and Stalin’s Russia was their military ally. The territories they gave up were mostly under Soviet control. None of this is actually worth Russia, China and Ukraine, so what excuse does Trump have today? /Telegraphy/