{"id":6524,"date":"2025-02-16T05:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/putin-has-long-wanted-more-power-in-europe-trump-could-grant-it\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T05:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T05:29:15","slug":"putin-has-long-wanted-more-power-in-europe-trump-could-grant-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/putin-has-long-wanted-more-power-in-europe-trump-could-grant-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Has Long Wanted More Power in Europe. Trump Could Grant It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shocked the audience at the annual security conference in Munich in 2007 by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/11\/world\/europe\/11munich.html\" title=\"\">demanding<\/a> the rollback of domineering American influence and a new balance of power in Europe more suitable to Moscow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He didn\u2019t get what he wanted \u2014 then.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nearly two decades later, during the very same conference, top officials from President Trump\u2019s cabinet made one thing clear: Mr. Putin has found an American administration that might help him realize his dream.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Comments by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vice President JD Vance raised fears among attendees that under the new administration the U.S. might align with Russia and either assail Europe or abandon it altogether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Such a shift, analysts say, would give Mr. Putin a previously unthinkable victory far more momentous for him than any objectives in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSince the dawn of the Cold War in the late 1940s, the Kremlin has dreamed of pushing America out of its role as the cornerstone of European security,\u201d said Andrew S. Weiss, vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. \u201cPutin surely is savvy enough to pounce on any openings provided by the new administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The presence of American troops has been the underpinning of 80 years of peace in Western Europe since the end of World War II. But in a speech in Warsaw on Friday, before his arrival at the conference, Mr. Hegseth warned European leaders they shouldn\u2019t assume that the U.S. will be there forever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Later in the day, at the Munich conference, Mr. Vance <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/14\/world\/europe\/vance-europe-immigration-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">delivered<\/a> an even scarier message for many European attendees: The enemy he sees isn\u2019t Russia or China, but Europe itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Vance set about attacking European nations for using what he called undemocratic methods to restrain far-right parties that in some cases have been backed by Russia. He argued that the continent needed to recognize the desires of its voters, stop attempting to moderate disinformation in undemocratic ways and instead allow such parties to thrive as the will of the people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you\u2019re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you,\u201d Mr. Vance said. \u201cNor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Vance hit out in particular at Romania, where the country\u2019s constitutional court in December <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/06\/world\/europe\/romania-election-court.html\" title=\"\">canceled<\/a> a presidential election that an ultranationalist backed by an apparent Russian influence campaign looked poised to win. The election has been rescheduled for May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars of digital advertising from a foreign country, then it wasn\u2019t very strong to begin with,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Kremlin for years has sought to weaken Europe by boosting parties that Mr. Vance argued must be allowed to flourish. The same day as his remarks at the conference, Mr. Vance met with the leader of Germany\u2019s extreme right movement, which is contesting national elections this month, boosting a party Russia has sought to legitimize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Moscow has also sought to drive a wedge between the United States and Europe, realizing that a destruction of the longstanding Euro-Atlantic alliance from within will lead to a world where Moscow can wield far more power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nathalie Tocci, director of the Institute for International Affairs in Rome, watched Mr. Vance\u2019s speech and interpreted the message as a direct threat by the United States to the European Union, which far-right Europeans and the Kremlin both seek to dismantle. She called it a plot twist by the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe plot is we are out there to destroy you,\u201d Ms. Tocci said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe point is not even Ukraine,\u201d she added. \u201cThe point is the deliberate weakening if not destruction of Europe, of which Ukraine is a part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Tocci described Mr. Vance\u2019s remarks as an attack on European democracy that perversely twisted the language of democracy itself, the way Russia often does when seeking to sow division within Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A dramatic reorganization of power in Europe seemed like a pipe dream for Mr. Putin back when he articulated his vision in 2007 at the Munich conference. Robert M. Gates, the American defense minister at the time, sat in the audience and later <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/11\/us\/11cnd-gates.html\" title=\"\">dismissed<\/a> the remarks as a throwback to the Cold War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Russian leader, however, has stuck unbendingly to his vision, making it a central point of his argument in the months leading to the war: that the West must be willing to discuss not just Ukrainian sovereignty but the whole security apparatus of Europe, which he claimed omitted Moscow and put it at existential risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin has cast his invasion of Ukraine as a broader battle against the West and the woke values he portrays as anathema, some of the same arguments Mr. Trump and Europe\u2019s extreme-right leaders have made to wrest power in their own countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Putin believed that ultimately the United States and Europe would bend to him, Alexander Baunov, a fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, wrote in a recent <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/alexander.baunov\/posts\/pfbid0Sni2EBUvmG3j9kjKWtdjCQ487UuQLSCMVPSr1sXhfPhx8bCkVrfUAL2VUqe5kgGcl\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United States is changing, Mr. Baunov wrote, and the current Washington \u201cis getting closer to Moscow not for the sake of Europe, but for its own sake \u2014 and even a little to spite Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The challenge to Europe comes as Germany and France, the European Union\u2019s two biggest countries, both are suffering from crises of leadership, in part because of surging political movements brandishing the same rhetoric as Mr. Trump. In 2015, Germany and France took the lead in negotiating an end to Mr. Putin\u2019s first invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The United Kingdom, which left the European Union owing to a campaign Mr. Trump publicly backed, has seen its influence on the continent significantly weakened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">How far Mr. Trump\u2019s deal-making with Mr. Putin will go is unclear, and the nascent rapprochement between Washington and Moscow could easily evaporate during negotiations over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But foreign leaders have managed to woo Mr. Trump into positions favorable to them before, and so far Russia is reaping benefits from the new administration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Kremlin has racked up a series of victories since Mr. Trump returned to the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Less than a month into his second term, Mr. Trump has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/07\/us\/politics\/usaid-trump.html\" title=\"\">eviscerated<\/a> U.S.A.I.D., the U.S. foreign aid agency long reviled by Moscow. He has pushed through <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/12\/us\/politics\/tulsi-gabbard-senate-confirmation-vote.html\" title=\"\">Cabinet officials<\/a> who regularly traffic in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/business\/tulsi-gabbard-russia-syria-ukraine-views.html\" title=\"\">Kremlin talking points<\/a>, including the new head of U.S. intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. He has exacerbated the discord in relations with Europe, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-tariffs-european-union.html\" title=\"\">threatening Washington\u2019s closest allies with a trade war<\/a>. He has empowered and elevated Elon Musk, who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/07\/business\/usaid-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html\" title=\"\">spreads falsehoods<\/a> beneficial to Moscow on X and publicly advocated in favor of Germany\u2019s far-right movement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump will now influence, possibly without European leaders present, how the biggest conflict on the continent since World War II gets resolved, with implications that could go beyond Ukraine itself to affect the broader security balance in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Europeans, who see insurgent right-wing populist movements as a threat to the European Union and freedom on the continent, are worried, particularly given the apparent alignment of Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin against them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is the moment in which we are at our most vulnerable,\u201d Ms. Tocci said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf ultimately what you are trying to do is destroy this project,\u201d she added, referring to the E.U., \u201cthis is the moment to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/16\/world\/europe\/vance-europe-putin-russia.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir V. 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