On Thursday it was reported that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni lambasted French President Emmanuel Macron over his plan to deploy French and British military ‘reassurance’ forces to Ukraine as the war comes to a close. Meanwhile Paris is seeking to get in on President Donald Trump’s Ukrainian mineral deal, a deal aimed to pay the U.S. back for the money it lent to Ukraine to wage war against Russia.
The argument broke out during an emergency video call between Western European leaders Wednesday. The call regarded the French leader’s recent failure of a meeting between him and President Trump.
According to The Telegraph, diplomatic sources said that Macron brought up his hopes of deploying European ‘reassurance forces’ to ‘deter Russia from future attacks’ against Ukraine, a dream which has been proposed previously.
This is when Meloni interjected and accused Macron of speaking on her behalf without a mandate, The Telegraph reported their source said.
Macron retorted, refuting Meloni’s accusation, reassuring that the decision to deploy European militaries in Ukraine would be national decisions. The Italian head-of-state was not the only one to hold back support for Macron’s plan. Germany, Poland and Spain also have raised opposition to deploying armed forces in post-war Ukraine.
“Their dispute highlights the splits between European nations as they scramble to find a common response to Mr Trump’s shock announcement that he’d opened peace talks with Vladimir Putin,” The Telegraph said Thursday.
This geopolitical ‘split’ highlights the ongoing degradation and disintegration of the post-WWII global order between the U.S. and Western Europe. To this end, the U.S. and Russia are discussing economic cooperation in the Arctic region as it relates to trade routes and natural resource extraction.
According to Politico (which is no fan of Russia or Trump), Macron’s agenda fell on its face when the Parisian Sun King met with the U.S. President. A key reason for Politico’s negative analysis is the failure of the French leader to attain ‘security guarantees’ for Ukraine from the U.S., which achieved a mineral deal for repayment, but which does not include security guarantees.
During Wednesday’s emergency video call, Macron also labeled Trump’s motivation for his peace plan as more ‘business focused’ than ‘strategic’.
“A European source confirmed that Mr Macron said it was ‘more about business’ than ‘only politics’,” The Telegraph said. “His appraisal appears to match criticisms of the U.S. President’s proposals demanding a share of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in exchange for past military support from Washington.”
Macron is set to meet with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday to discuss the upcoming meeting the British leader is set to have with President Trump.
Meanwhile, globalist forces aiming to maintain their position on the ‘grand chessboard’ seek to destabilize Romania in an attempt to ignite nuclear war in hopes the atomic conflict could save their world order. The outgoing New World Order flounders as irony takes hold; Berlin is set to host a neo-Nazi rally in support of Ukraine on Saturday, RT reports.