Europe’s ‘liberal elites’ are saying the quiet part out loud, with former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell expressing sentiments usually confined to the hushed hallways and backrooms in Brussels and Strasbourg: the European Union can no longer pretend the U.S. is an “ally” under Donald Trump’s leadership.
According to Borrell, Washington delivered its proposed Ukraine peace plan directly to Kyiv without even notifying Brussels, leaving Western EU leaders—who wrongly perceive themselves to be power brokers—sidelined and furious.
For a political class that demands constant deference, Trump’s decision to cut out the middlemen struck at their deepest insecurity: their precipitously declining relevance on the world stage.
The plan, delivered last week, gives Ukraine a deadline to respond—yet the EU’s leadership had no seat at the table and no influence over the terms.
Europe’s ruling class reacted with predictable outrage, insisting the proposal violated Kyiv’s “red lines,” especially Ukraine joining NATO and surrendering disputed territory.
Borrell took to X to vent, declaring that Trump’s move revealed the “failure” of the EU’s attempts to placate him on tariffs, defense spending, and energy policy.
1/ Trump’s plan to end the war in Ukraine exposes the failure of the EU’s appeasement strategy. Giving in to his demands on military spending, tariffs, digital deregulation, multinational taxation, and energy supplies has achieved nothing.
— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) November 24, 2025
He openly stated that America under Trump should no longer be considered an ally—an astonishing admission that says more about Europe’s globalist political class’s neurosis than about Trump.
2/ With the 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine, Trump’s United States can no longer be considered an ally of Europe, which is not even consulted on matters affecting its own security. Europe must acknowledge this shift in U.S. policy and respond accordingly.
— Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) November 24, 2025
Brussels technocrats, openly hostile to their respective European populations, have spent years demonizing MAGA voters as backward and dangerous. Is anyone surprised they now panic when American policy stops catering to their worldview.
Reports say Trump’s plan would require Ukraine to remain outside NATO, accept frozen conflict lines, relinquish certain territories, and cap its military at 600,000 troops.
The proposal also includes targeted sanctions relief—an approach aimed at achieving a realistic ceasefire rather than the EU’s fantasy of an open-ended proxy war.
Western European capitals—the majority of which are in the hands of globalist maniacs—immediately tried to rewrite Trump’s terms, with the UK, France, and Germany drafting their own alternative that preserved EU influence and toughened conditions on Moscow.
Their counterproposal pushed territorial disputes into the future and offered Ukraine a US-style security guarantee (similar to NATO’s Article 7)—essentially an effort to keep the war going.
Kyiv reportedly signaled broad acceptance of the US plan, leaving Europe even more isolated as it tried to salvage its preferred direction of the conflict.
Moscow, for its part, called the American draft a possible starting point, while dismissing the European version as “unconstructive,” highlighting again how little credibility Brussels has in this conflict.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia is willing to discuss concrete wording but will not compromise on the core goals outlined by President Putin during his Alaska meeting with Trump.
For all the EU’s posturing, what’s going on could not be any clearer: Trump is driving the peace process, Kyiv is listening, Moscow is attempting to engage, while Europe’s old guard—increasingly unpopular at home and irrelevant abroad—is enraged that the MAGA movement’s return to power could very well mean the end of their wartime delusions.
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