‘The US is ready to hand Russia a win’: newspapers on Europe’s Trump shock

<p>European papers express deep alarm at declaration of an ‘ideological war’, while the NYT says Putin may soon ‘realise his dream’</p><p>This year’s Munich security conference exposed the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/jd-vance-munich-speech-laid-bare-collapse-transatlantic-alliance-us-europe">chasm in core values</a> separating the Trump administration from most Europeans and sparked deep alarm at US efforts to control the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/europe-will-not-take-part-in-us-russia-talks-ukraine-kellogg">Ukraine peace process and exclude</a> European governments from it.</p><p>Here is what some of the main European and US newspapers had to say about it.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/16/the-us-is-ready-to-hand-russia-a-win-newspapers-on-europes-trump-shock">Continue reading...</a>