BORIS JOHNSON: Trump’s had the balls to offer Ukraine something priceless and peace is now closer…. but I know exactly what crazy Putin will do next and now Europe needs to step up

It would be fair to say that the mood between my Ukrainian friends in a positive way yesterday morning – the most optimistic I’ve heard for a long time.

He said the Trump-Zelensky-Europe meetings series in Washington are not just good. They were the best, they were the best so far.

After the horror of watching Putin’s Red Carpet Treatment in Alaska, they think they are on the verge of winning something invaluable, a reward in which none of Donald Trump’s predecessors are where they are.

We are talking about security guarantees-that, if the Ukraine is attacked, the future of all the signatures of that treaty to the immediate defense of Ukraine (a commitment that Ukraine will respond).

It is difficult to exaggerate the importance or potential importance of Trump right now.

All the problem with Ukraine after the Cold War is that it is lost in the geo-strategic uncertainty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with the governor of Rostov in Moscow yesterday with the governor of Yur Slyusar

As the 1991 Constitution said, do Ukrainians live in a really free, sovereign and independent country? The Ukrainians may believe that they are overwhelmingly free – but are we?

Do we mean when we say that Ukraine is independent?

Otherwise, we think that in the West, Ukrainians are still in the orbit of Moscow, which is still part of a Russian ‘influence area’; In other words, a satellite, a satrap of the Kremlin, can’t really choose its own destiny?

We have sent mixed signals for more than 30 years. We accepted anger in the Russian treatment of Ukraine – but we never did anything enough to deter them this aggression.

For decades, we have failed to offer Ukrainians to the Baltic states and all other Eastern European countries. Despite the repeated paper promises, we could not give them NATO membership.

The reason for this was not because of some hidden commitments to Gorbachev during the negotiations about the German unification (all of the Kremlin lies), and the reason for this was not because it was in principle. A view of history shows that George W Bush accurately envisaged the threat of Russian attack and in fact campaigning to participate in the alliance of Ukraine.

No, the problem was that Europeans, led by Germany, were very dependent on Putin’s oil and gas, and focused on Russian pressure. They were always the Europeans who vetoed Ukraine NATO membership, and Europe was the weakness of the European, which helps to trigger the disaster.

Putin looked at the failure to present NATO membership and looked at a logical conclusion: the West is not serious in his devotion to the borders or independence of Ukraine. Therefore, in 2014, he occupied the Crimean Peninsula, and in 2022, when he did not do very little or nothing in the West response.

So now the solution – the only way to avoid a third invasion and achieves a permanent peace is to provide security guarantees in Article 5 of NATO, which is a guarantee of NATO’s 5th and countries, such as Australia.

As Trump rightly said, Europeans would lead, but America would have a ‘coordination’ role.

This is very important because such an effort will continue to depend on US logistics and intelligence. I have no doubt that it will do much more than the USA. Trump has repeatedly rejected the US bots to ignore the ground.

From the text of the Minerals Agreement to the last commitments of Trump, we see a Western commitment that increases not only by Europeans, but also by the greatest military force in the world.

This is also a great success of Volodomyr Zelensky. It takes its country out of the gray region and carries its freedom to the column of democracies that look at the West such as South Korea, Japan and Israel, supported by America.

Yesterday, European leaders in the White House to meet with US President Donald Trump (center). In the picture (from left to right): European Commission President Ursula von der Luyen, Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, German luck Right Friedrich Merz and Nato Merz and Nato.

This – if we take such a peace agreement – it will mean that Ukraine can immediately print EU membership, and when the Ukrainian society adopts Western norms, the place will become less corrupt and more attractive for investment. A great possibility if We get such an agreement.

Of course, it’s too big.

Despite sudden optimism increases, Ukrainians know that security guarantees have no meaning when there is still no peace to guarantee. As Trump said, Putin may really want peace, but only wants peace under conditions – and its current conditions are strange.

Now he says he wants all Donbas; In other words, to use the negotiations to force the region heavy defending the forces in the last 12 years has not caught. There is a good reason why the Russians fail and why Ukrainians fight like lions to keep them away.

These are the positions that the Ukrainian forces should hold if they will stop a Russian breakthrough in the circle that leads to Kiev and Kharkiv and less defenseable region. In other words, Putin wants Ukrainians to sign their own strategic death order.

It is very good to have the possibility of Western security guarantees, but because every European leader suffered at the meeting on Monday, the best guarantors of Ukraine’s security are the heroes of the Ukraine Armed Forces. They need these fortifications in Donbas. They need that area.

Even if Zelensky wanted to surrender to Putin’s crazy demand and surrender most of the sovereign Ukrainian territory, he would have to change the Ukrainian constitution. More importantly, he would have to deal with the anger of Ukraine’s national sense.

The Ukrainians have fought to defend this land for more than a decade. They lost dozens, although there were no hundreds of thousands of lives. They will not allow Zelensky or another leader to be delivered to Putin.

Putin knows that this is not a runner, and that’s why he wants it. We will see what will happen in the next few meetings, but I am afraid that the Russian leader will now return to return and accuse Zelensky because it is unreasonable. Putin cannot be allowed to get rid of him.

Putin will torture Ukraine until he is forced to give up; As the US senator Lindsey Graham said correctly, he will continue until he meets the real economic ruins. In order to achieve a result and end this war, we all have to put more pressure on Putin.

This means an intense support that continues to Ukraine. Putin’s ‘Shadow Fleet’, which is used to miss the oil, means secondary sanctions on its customers and its frozen assets seize $ 300 billion.

We didn’t behave quickly and I fear that Russia will continue cynically to turn it unless we hit Putin where it hurts.

Trump brought Putin to the table at least and broke Logjam. Ukraine finally answers the important question about Ukraine’s fate by offering real security guarantees.

Only Putin will finally realize that Ukraine is now a long -term ally of America and that it will be strongly defended by the United States, and will realize that Ukraine has no choice but to allow it to go. This is the way of long -term peace.