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Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.
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Much friendlier.
Zelensky's meeting today with leaders of Britain, France, Germany.
They're three of his biggest supporters, the three NATO countries with the biggest budgets besides the U.S., incidentally.
And they're leading a coalition of the willing to help defend Ukraine with aid, with weapons, possibly even with French and British peacekeepers on the ground if and when there is a peace deal.
I asked Mujtaba Rahman, the Europe Managing Director at the Eurasia Group.
It's a risk analysis firm.
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.