A former British chancellor’s alarming warning if Trump governs again: ‘It is not just Ukraine that is under threat but all of Europe’

Following presidential candidate Donald Trump’s statements that will not provide aid to Ukraine continue the war in the event of victory in the presidential elections in November and Vladimir Putin’s decision to prepare for nuclear war, the security of Europeans has been put to the test in the hands of the EU and its nuclear powers.

France and Great Britain must prepare their arsenals and their armies for a conflict. Increase their depleted military budgets and see how they will replace the United States in NATO in that context, if Trump wins the election, to secure the fate of the European Union.

War, according to Putin

President Putin has warned that Russia is ready for nuclear war against Ukraine, describing Western leaders as “vampires” with a taste for “human flesh”.

In a rambling interview broadcast on state television on the eve of the Kremlin-controlled presidential election, Putin, 71, said Moscow would not hesitate to use its nuclear missiles if there were threats to the existence of the Russian state or its sovereignty and independence.

Moscow yes the largest nuclear arsenal in the world with 5,580 nuclear warheads, according to the Federation of American Scientists.

“Weapons exist to be used,” Putin said. He also boasted that Russia’s nuclear triad of land, air and sea missiles was far more advanced than that of the United States. Our [arsenal nuclear] It’s more modern,” Putin said. The United States has the second largest reserves in the world.

Defenseless Europe

Europe he needs a nuclear strategy to counter Putin. Trump’s irresponsibility leaves Britain and France with vital documents in protecting the continent if Ukraine loses the war.

“Donald Trump made Monday, March 11, a day that will be remembered equally shameful. His statement that if he became president after the next elections, Ukraine would not receive a single cent more in aid, was as dangerous as it is stupid. It was exactly what Vladimir Putin wanted to hear. He no longer needs to assume that if we want to end the war through negotiations, he will have to make real concessions, as Volodymyr Zelensky would do,” Malcom Rifkind, a former British Conservative chancellor, explained on Wednesday.

Rifkind is one of the international analysts the most prestigious of the Tories and negotiated directly with Moscow during his tenure.

“Thanks to Trump’s irresponsibility, Zelensky would be negotiating from a position of weakness“, warned the British politician. “The dictator of Russia would not only demand the Ukrainian territory that he illegally occupied”. That would also be required Ukraine will renounce its independence and become a permanent vassal of Russia, as part of its “sphere of influence,” he predicted.

Will Trump stop being an ally?

Trump’s threats “will be studied closely in Beijing, Tokyo and Taiwan, as well as Kiev. “Xi Jinping will be encouraged that if the United States under Trump were to abandon not only Ukraine but also the leadership of NATO and the West, its commitment to protecting the freedom of Taiwan and the territory of Japan and Korea South would be seriously compromised,” Rifkind said.

“The United Kingdom, Germany and France must now accept that the United States submits Trump could no longer be a reliable ally and guarantor of Europe’s security,” warned the former British chancellor.

“It is not only Ukraine that is threatened by Trump, but Europe as a whole. “NATO countries must undertake a fundamental expansion and modernization of our defense capabilities over the next five years to face a hostile and aggressive Putin regime,” he said.

“Both the Government and the Labor Party should accept the need to do this a rapid and substantial increase in defense spending of the UK to 3% of our GDP, with similar increases in Germany and France. Europe It is much richer than Russia and you can face this challenge, if you have the will to do so. We also have to use Sweden and Finland’s new membership in NATO to help protect the Baltic states. “The Baltic Sea is now, largely, a NATO-controlled lake,” she analyzed.

Moscow devastated

“But there is another unprecedented threat, which would emerge under the Trump presidency. Europe, for the first time since 1948, may not be protected by the United States of the threat of nuclear war or Kremlin nuclear blackmail,” Rifkind said.

“It would be very serious, but there is already a way to protect Europe from Russian nuclear threats. The United Kingdom and France They were equipped with nuclear weapons., with significant arsenals of nuclear weapons. These arsenals are, of course, much smaller than the Russian ones, but still they could devastate Moscow, St. Petersburg and much of Russia as much as Putin could destroy Western Europe. We and France will have to develop a new nuclear deterrence strategy, for our security and that of the whole of Europe” recommended the former British chancellor.

“We must now work with Germany and all our European neighbors to ensure that, if Trump becomes president again and carries out his stated threats, Europe’s combined conventional and nuclear weapons will be able to protect democracy and freedom in Europe,” Rifkind said. the politician who

mentioned the Russian nuclear risk in Europe more clearly.

In France, I support Ukraine in Parliament

President Emmanuel Macron sparked a controversy by announcing this It could not be ruled out that European forces would reach Ukraine. For Putin that would be the limit to start the war against Europe.

The war that has threatened Ukraine and Russia for two years was the subject of fierce debates in the French National Assembly on Tuesday afternoon. The debate, decided pursuant to Article 50-1 of the Constitution, was announced by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, in the aftermath of his controversial speech on a possible dispatch of Western troops as reinforcements to Kiev.

Verdict: after the Prime Minister’s statements this Tuesday at Palazzo Borbonico, the agreement in support of Ukraine was voted by a majority of deputies, with 372 votes in favor and 99 against.

From the podium of the Chamber, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal immediately echoed the President of the Republic’s statements. “We do not exclude, in principle, any option. We do not place limits on Russia, which does not place any limits”, he said, specifying that the government does not, however, position itself on a “logic of escalation”.

Before recalling, in the meantime, the objective of this debate and this symbolic vote: for each MP to express their opinion on the agreement to support Ukraine, signed by Emmanuel Macron and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyj, to civil and military aid from Franceover a “ten year” horizon.

An agreement “in a collective logic”: 25 countries have joined “this approach”, specified Gabriel Attal, before warning against the Insumisos and the communists, who had announced shortly before their willingness to oppose, and of the Reagrupación Nazionale (formerly the National Front), which had expected an abstention.

“I vote against is to provide Vladimir Putin with all the arguments and a sign waiting. To abstain means to shirk one’s responsibilities towards history.” A “facade of pacifism” also harshly criticized by the president of the Macronisti in the Assembly, Sylvain Maillard.

In the support of the National Assembly for Ukraine it is unanimous. The terms of the agreement, a little less. The head of state’s recent statements have been widely criticized by the opposition. Without comparison, several parliamentarians criticize Emmanuel Macron’s statements on sending European troops to Ukraine.