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'Echoes of 1938' — Trump's peace plan undermines Europe's security, experts warn

U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for ending Russia’s war has been criticized as effectively imposing the Kremlin's terms for Ukraine’s surrender. But the plan also poses a direct threat to Europe's security architecture, analysts and diplomats believe. The proposal requires Ukraine to cede territory, limit its alliances, and sharply reduce its military — conditions far more sweeping than any proposal discussed in previous negotiation rounds. The plan is a major blow to the principles on whi

U.S. President Donald Trump, President Volodymyr Zelensky.

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The U.S. bipartisan Senate delegation attending the Halifax International Security Forum had received a phone call from Secretary of State Marco Rubio. In it, Rubio was quite frank. According to Republican Senator Mike Rounds, Rubio told senators that the 28-point peace plan drawn up by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart, Kirill Dmitriev, was actually a Russian plan that the U.S. had agreed to pass along to Ukraine. "Secretary Rubio made a phone call to us this afternoon.

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