Europe has just discovered what some have known for a while: The Donald Trump does not ask before taking actions.

The president of the USA He ignored Western consensus by inviting Vladimir Putin to launch peace talks about Ukraine, even offering a list of concessions to the Russian leader, before the negotiations even begin.

And it seems that he did not bother to consult America’s allies to European Union or the United Kingdom for what he intended to do.

It is a situation that reveals the painful degree to which Europe – and in particular the EU – is now alone, and is considered to Washington, at best, as irrelevant. The transatlantic alliance, which was the foundation of European security since 1945, has been cut very deeply, reaching the bone.

A few hours before Trump’s 90 -minute telephone conversation with Putin on Wednesday, the leader of the EU’s largest economy, German Chancellor Olf Saltz, said that he was waiting for Trump to stand by Kiev.

In an interview with PoliticoSaltz said his discussions with Trump led him to conclude that “we can hope and assume that the US will continue to support Ukraine.” At the end of the day, this estimate proved to be hopelessly naive.

Trump’s Vice President, Jd vancehe had his first meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Laien in Paris on Tuesday. However, the head of the Commission has not yet managed to locate Trump himself for a debate since he returned to the White House almost a month ago.

Even the British Prime Minister Star starwho has done more than many others to look for favor in the new White House, he did not know what was going to happen before the Trump-Putn conversation.

On Tuesday, a senior US official had informed the United Kingdom that there was a great deal of intervention, but did not reveal what it was, according to two sources they know.

‘War is happening here at Europetherefore, the terms of ceasefire will affect us immediately, “Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavski told Politico. “Europe cannot be a mere viewer,” he added.

Any developments in the Ukrainian are important to European nations, including the United Kingdom, which sends cash and weapons for Ukraine defense for the last three years, while absorbing the highest energy costs and has received millions of refugees.

And it matters, analysts say, because Europe now has to get used to a new world without the hope of protecting the US from Putin’s malicious interest. “As the US security blanket retires, the question is not once again whether Russia will go further, but where and when,” said Keir Giles of Think Tank Chatham House in London.

According to a senior European official who knows the discussions, Hegschez put it more clearly behind closed doors: “We know who are good, we know who the bad ones are,” he said.

As for Europe’s leaders, however, they do not seem to know much, not even interested.