{"id":9100,"date":"2025-08-25T20:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:45:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:45:49","slug":"white-house-summit-europe-unites-ukraine-rejects-capitulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/news\/white-house-summit-europe-unites-ukraine-rejects-capitulation\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Summit: Europe Unites, Ukraine Rejects Capitulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"viewer-a0rjc565\"><strong>By: Ahmed Fathi<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"viewer-v2882691\"><strong><em>New York<\/em>: <\/strong>The White House has seen its share of high-stakes diplomacy, but Monday\u2019s gathering\u00a0carried the weight of a continent\u2019s anxieties and a nation\u2019s survival. President Donald Trump welcomed Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alongside European leaders\u2014including France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron, Germany\u2019s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni, Finland\u2019s President Alexander Stubb\u2014plus EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.<\/h5>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ahmed-Fathi.webp\" alt=\"Ahmed Fathi\" class=\"wp-image-8856\" style=\"width:188px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ahmed-Fathi.webp 180w, https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Ahmed-Fathi-150x198.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ahmed Fathi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-ha84f980\"><strong>Europe\u2019s Defiant Unity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-ft2yn1004\">The Europeans came determined to project solidarity. Starmer described the talks as \u201cgood and constructive,\u201d while Macron reminded that \u201csecurity guarantees involve the security of the whole European continent.\u201d Merz went further, comparing Russia\u2019s territorial demands to forcing America to cede Florida\u2014an analogy that underscored how absurd it would be to accept such terms. The message was unmistakable: Ukraine is not alone, and Moscow\u2019s conditions cannot serve as a foundation for peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-khjld1028\"><strong>Putin\u2019s Demands: Peace or Capitulation?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-y87ys1052\">Behind the formal communiqu\u00e9s, the Kremlin\u2019s position loomed over the summit. Reported proposals include recognition of Crimea as Russian and the cession of Donetsk and Luhansk. These are not genuine peace offers; they are ultimatums. From my vantage point, they are capitulation terms disguised as diplomacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-yiw1o580\">Zelenskyy himself was unyielding: \u201cThe question of territories is something we will leave between me and Putin.\u201d For him, this is not bravado\u2014it is survival. To concede would not end the war; it would erase Ukraine\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-cl1sy1077\"><strong>Between Possibility and Peril<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-w43tk1101\">The summit produced no ceasefire, no breakthrough agreement. Still, it sketched out the paths ahead:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One possibility is that Ukraine secures NATO-like guarantees\u2014anchored by a European-financed package of about $90 billion in U.S. weapons\u2014without ceding territory. That would be a fragile but dignified win.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another is that Zelenskyy refuses compromise, Europe stands firm, and the war grinds on, prolonging civilian suffering.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A third scenario is a ceasefire first\u2014a pause to build trust\u2014but with Russia still striking Ukrainian cities, its credibility remains doubtful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And always, in the background, lies the risk of a U.S. pivot. If Washington pares back support, Europe may be forced to shoulder the burden alone at a scale it has long tried to avoid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-6e8jn1129\"><strong>The Heart of the Matter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-nmkkl1153\">This was not a summit of triumphs or treaties\u2014it was a summit of resolve. Europe stood shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine, Washington kept its options open, and Kyiv rejected humiliation dressed up as compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-5gndh603\">For ordinary Ukrainians, still waking to air raid sirens, this matters only if it brings safety without shame. They are not fighting to trade cities for promises; they are fighting to live with dignity on their own soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-a24j1605\">The White House talks made one thing plain: peace is possible, but only if built on justice, not on capitulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original URL: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amerinews.tv\/posts\/white-house-summit-europe-unites-ukraine-rejects-capitulation\">https:\/\/www.amerinews.tv\/posts\/white-house-summit-europe-unites-ukraine-rejects-capitulation<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>INPS Japan\/ATN\u3000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Ahmed Fathi New York: The White House has seen its share of high-stakes diplomacy, but Monday\u2019s gathering\u00a0carried the weight of a continent\u2019s anxieties and a nation\u2019s survival. President Donald Trump welcomed Ukraine&#8217;s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alongside European leaders\u2014including France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron, Germany\u2019s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italy\u2019s Giorgia Meloni, Finland\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,16,39,93,32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"category-news","9":"category-north-america","10":"category-politics","11":"category-regions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9102,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions\/9102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inpsjapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}