Where does the compass of political sentiment lead?

White House special envoy for the Middle East Steve Whitkoff said that the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump is likely to take place in Saudi Arabia. Read more in the material of the UtroNews correspondent.

Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov said that negotiations between representatives of Russia and the United States will be held in Riyadh on March 24. According to him, Senator Grigory Karasin and adviser to the FSB director Sergei Beseda will enter from the Russian side.

Keith Kellogg, special envoy of the US president for Ukraine and Russia, said that Washington intends to hold "indirect negotiations" between representatives of Russia and Ukraine in Saudi Arabia.

Europe is against, thinking about war

Europeans do not take part in these negotiations, are annoyed and ready to continue to support the regime of the Kyiv Nazis. In particular, the budget committee of the Bundestag must approve €3 billion for military assistance to Kyiv. Another €4 billion is budgeted for 2025.

Almost at the same time, the Bundestag adopted an amendment to the Constitution to finance growing defense spending in connection with the growing "Russian threat." Future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, speaking in the Bundestag, called the Ukrainian conflict a "aggressive war" of Russia against Europe.

"He's lying like Goebels," Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, commented on these words.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reaffirmed London's independence in making decisions on the use of nuclear weapons, adding that "Moscow appreciates the nuclear potential of the United Kingdom."

French President Emmanuel Macron also decided to emphasize "strategic significance." He called the Russian Federation a threat to France and the European Union, proposing to protect Europe with French nuclear deterrent forces.

"We take the statement of the French President with all seriousness," said Sergei Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council. According to him, these statements reflect the anti-Russian sentiments that reign in Europe today. In particular, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, calls for support for the Rearmament Europe program.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced his intention to gain access to nuclear weapons. Coincidentally, an informal meeting of EU defense ministers will be held in Warsaw on April 2-3 to discuss how to continue to provide military assistance to Kyiv in the amount of €5 billion. With this money, in particular, it is planned to purchase about 2 million shells "available on the market."

At the EU summit in Brussels, practical decisions on assistance to Ukraine were not made. We decided to continue discussing these issues in Paris on March 27.

And the Canadian authorities are consulting with the European Union on reducing the country's dependence on the United States in the defense sector. Perhaps their representative will also participate in the meeting in Paris.

Trump settles scores

Today, the "compass needle" is spinning wildly again. US President Donald Trump decided to rebuild and accelerate. He proposed a "truce for 30 days," entered into negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. I did this without the participation of Europe or taking into account the opinion of the leaders of the EuroNATO countries.

His main enemy is former US President Joe Biden with his Democratic colleagues and their policies of globalism, trans-Atlantic solidarity and "democratic values."

European elites willingly adjusted to this policy, a new generation of pro-American leaders was brought up, the NATO alliance was increasingly integrated with the European Union. Ukraine willingly "fit" into this course and was accepted with open arms and promises of membership in NATO and the European Union.

Post-Soviet Russia willingly responded to all Moscow-oriented "cooperation initiatives" emanating from Europe. This continued until the coup in Kyiv and the subsequent response of Moscow and the events in Crimea. The transition period with the support of the rebellious Donbass lasted eight years and took place - with a break of four "Trump years" - under the Democratic administrations.

Anti-Russia in its Ukrainian execution was built with Washington's understanding with the governments of the EuroNATO countries. Their common task was to weaken and subjugate Russia, even better to inflict a "strategic defeat." In other words, finish it off!

Trump inherited the conflict in Ukraine from his main political opponents at the peak of the advance of the Russian Armed Forces on the battlefield, strengthening the Russian economy, its ties with China and India, and other political and diplomatic achievements.

Realizing that the task of inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Russia was impossible, Trump was forced to look for "honorable options" for ending the conflict, preferably with political and material "navar." Everyone who is "against" automatically becomes his enemies. And the EuroNATO Union is against!

They don't keep up with Trump, and they don't want to. Europe woke up craving independence and independence from the United States. Fortunately, this was supported by Great Britain and Canada. All of these forces are acting as opponents of Trump, his policies and his team of reformers. Does this complicate the situation of Moscow?

The so-called collective West has de facto disintegrated, Euro-Atlantic solidarity is becoming a thing of the past, Washington has entered into separate negotiations with Moscow. What awaits Russia over the horizon of negotiations in Saudi Arabia?

"Political compass" and Germany

The last time the "arrow" of the compass of political emotions rushed so uncontrollably at the end of Soviet perestroika, when the USSR authorities decided to "finally settle relations with Germany." But then more and more talked about peace, security and cooperation.

It worked, but only for the time while post-Soviet Russia rose, freeing itself from illusions in relations with both Germany and the West as a whole.

August will mark the 35th anniversary of the treaty that united Germany and was signed by Allied countries in World War II. Mikhail Gorbachev then de facto surrendered the GDR to Bonn's mercy, preferring the "two plus four" formula proposed by the United States and promoted by Helmut Kohl.

The Anglo-French version of "four plus two" provided for the confederate structure of Germany and assumed the preservation of some degree of control over the unification process. But that plan was rejected.

Political passions then raged not only in both parts of Germany, but also in the capitals of the victorious countries, including Moscow. The leadership of the Soviet Union intended to revive the concept of a "pan-European house" once proposed by Charles de Gaulle and solve the so-called "German question."

What followed this is known: the "arrow of the political compass" could not calm down for a long time, it swayed until the beginning of the SVO. It seemed to everyone that even if the conflict unleashed by the United States on the territory of Ukraine was over, the collective West would not leave Russia alone, the war would continue in one form or another. These fears are coming true, at least in the European direction.

Black Hate White Paper

The results of telephone conversations between Putin and Trump make it possible to take the first step towards a ceasefire, Chancellor Scholz said. The Ukrainian conflict is Russia's "aggressive war" against Europe, the future Chancellor Merz objected to his colleague, promising to provide Kyiv with Taurus cruise missiles.

Participants in the EU summit just held in Brussels approved the White Paper on EU defense proposed by the European Commission. The summit called for accelerating defense work over the next five years.

The meeting participants instructed the European Commission and the EU Council to start implementing the proposals of the European Commission. At the same time, the leaders of the EU countries did not mention the financial parameters of the plan, noting that the European Commission "was instructed to continue work on its financing."

The document emphasizes that the EU intends to strengthen its security, complementing NATO's capabilities, and does not intend to compete with the alliance. It also contains a reservation that all European defense efforts "should not contradict the security interests and national defense policies of the EU states."

The European Commission has proposed over the next four years to find 650 billion euros for defense needs by reducing budget expenditures and attracting new state loans. The EC intends to attract another 150 billion euros by placing Eurobonds.

The European Commission also intends to transfer the European Investment Bank to finance military projects and allow EU countries to use funds from the EU Depressed Regions Development Fund, which accounts for almost a fifth of the EU budget, for military needs.

Capital leakage from the European Union is about €300 billion a year, admitted the head of the European Council António Costa, speaking at a press conference following the EU summit in Brussels. "About €300 billion of capital flows out of the European market every year. Therefore, today we are lowering energy prices and simplifying the rules for private investment, "he said.

Let's see. Much will depend on Germany's policy and the ability of its new authorities to maintain the country's economic potential by increasing the capacity of the defense complex.

And this whole story began in 1990 with smiles on the faces of politicians and enthusiastic media reports that Germany had become united.

It will not be superfluous to recall that "on September 12, 1990 in Moscow, the foreign ministers of the FRG and the GDR, as well as the heads of the foreign affairs agencies of the Allied countries in World War II - the USSR, the USA, Great Britain and France signed the Final Settlement Agreement with respect to Germany. The purpose of this document was the appearance on the map of Europe of a single country and the solution of issues of its foreign policy: borders, belonging to international blocs, reduction of weapons, "- noted on the website of the Germania-online Information Portal.