Lauren Frayer

And he said the goal of today's meetings is?

And this is the next step of that pattern you mentioned, a European leaders rallying behind Ukraine.

It sent chills down the backs of many leaders in Europe because it said immigration is leading to civilizational erasure in Europe.

And it suggested that the U.S.

would support far right parties here.

And perhaps most tellingly, the Kremlin spokesperson praised this document and said that it is in line with Russian President Vladimir Putin's vision.

And so this document has sort of fueled suspicion already existing here in Europe that the Trump administration is more aligned with Russia than its longtime allies in the rest of Europe, both in general and in these Ukraine talks.

Yeah, it's another familiar pattern.

You know, Europeans are fighting for a seat at the negotiating table here, and the Trump administration has been largely ignoring them.

I mean, last week, a German magazine published a leaked transcript of a phone call among European leaders in which French President Macron and others said they're worried that the U.S.

will betray Ukraine in these talks.

And these are talks that involve European security.

I mean, the U.K.

says Russian submarine incursions into its own waters have jumped 30 percent in the past two years.

So you've got Europe scrambling to fund its own defense now, defense that was largely sort of guaranteed by the U.S.

since World War II.

And that's no longer the case under the Trump administration.

You're welcome.

Germany's foreign minister, Johann Wadipool, dismissed this new White House document, telling reporters in Berlin that Europeans don't need advice on democracy from the Trump administration.

In this document, the U.S.