The United States National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, has applauded the European initiative of “Assume the leadership of security” of the continent. “We welcome that Europeans assume the leadership of their security,” he said in response to the meeting held this Sunday among the main leaders of the ‘Old Continent’ and Canada to treat the defense of Ukraine.
Waltz has highlighted the “will” that leaders such as the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, or French President Emmanuel Macron. “We welcome Europe to take a step forward,” he said, clarifying that he must “invest” also in his abilities to be effective.
In turn, Waltz has not let the opportunity to reproach the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski, For the episode that occurred on Friday at the White House, where he starred in a historic discussion with the US president, Donald Trump, who was shielded at all times by his ‘number two’, JD Vance.
Thus, he pointed out that before the appointment in Washington, Europe already planned to increase help, so Zelenski that weekend could have obtained economic guarantees that not only would have benefited Ukraine, but “to the world during a generation”, in reference to a bankrupt signing of the agreement on rare earths.
