Shock and awe has caused yesterday’s, unprecedented world -renowned Trump -Zelenski conflict. What was to be a reconciliation meeting that would be sealed by the signing of an agreement on Ukraine’s critical minerals resulted in an angry fight. The ultimatums and heavy categories succeeded each other with Volodimir Zelenski being “glued to the wall”.

For something ‘Unprecedented, unprecedented’ Constantine Filis, Professor of International Relations and Analyst on international issues, spoke in the SKAI Central Newsletter, noting that “Nothing similar has happened before in time”. As he explains, the two sides have accumulated against each other, various repulsions: the current American leadership charges Zelenski that he is the one who continues the war, that he is the one who started the war and that he is the one who has no problem risks He reiterated a second – as well as the one who supported the Democratic pre -election campaign after first getting the money of American taxpayers.

On the other hand, Zelenski had heard Trump a week ago call him a dictator and not taking it back. He had heard Americans say that they would stop military aid in Ukraine as a lever. Yesterday, Trump said it very clearly, because he said “if you don’t get our help, you are alone and you are powerless.” The Ukrainian president is also concerned about the fact that the United States at the moment seems to propose their relationship with Russia and sacrifice Ukraine in their attempt to attach Russia for other purposes that are mainly related to the halt of China.

What does the “wreck” of Zelenski – Trump talks mean to Europe

Regarding what this frontal between the two leaders for Europe mean, Mr Filis says that Europe realizes on the one hand that it has to take the situation into its own hands. There is no time, there is no room for disagreement, because it is obvious that not all Member States and the 27 are in the same purpose. There are at least three that are opposite. There is also no further discussion. That is, at the moment Europe, the European Union will have to make some decisions, at least with the willing and capable of proceeding below. But on the other hand, if the United States decides to stop mainly the military part of their support for Ukraine, this will be a blatant for Ukraine. And the European Union, the European countries all together, even if they decided to give all the help they could in Ukraine, the military, could not fill the gap of Americans. Indeed, Mr Filis emphasizes that it is no coincidence that recently in an interview with the BBC, NATO Secretary -General said that Zelenski should go back and find them with the Americans. “If one watches his interview, he will find his anxiety to be involved in the situation again because everyone is afraid that if Washington decides to stop or retire from the help it offers in Ukraine at the moment, then Russia can soon be more than any of them. His successor is in even worse terms and being a capitulation to Russia with the help of Americans, “he says.

Was the show designed?

Mr Filis explains that they wanted to humiliate the Ukrainian president and speaks of two scenarios about the attack by Zelenski: one is that he came up with the debate, especially when Zelenski turned to the detriment of Vice President and said to him? They didn’t like what they heard and didn’t like that he talked about Putin with these characterizations.

On the other hand, the scenario, which is equally likely, according to him, is to have “set up” it. It is no coincidence that before the discussion began an American journalist from a marginal channel and not the mainstream channels, some of which are otherwise outside the White House, asked him if he had a suit in his closet and why he was not wearing a suit. “This in itself burdened the climate without being decisive in what followed,” Mr Filis noted. However, he added that both parties allowed the situation to escape, probably thinking about their domestic audiences.