Keir Strandmer: How he could help Europe with Trump

On Friday, it looked really good for Great Britain Prime Minister Keir Strandmer for a few hours. “A triumph” was his visit to Donald Trump on Thursday, the judgment of the British media was, some even spoke of “Strander’s best moment”.

In advance, nobody really expected that the brittle strand would bring it to the US President. But the talented lawyer had heard of those who personally knew Trump. Above all, they had to flatter him, they had advised him, and nothing was too embarrassing: neither the king’s invitation to visit the state to Trump, presented in front of the cameras. Another exuberant thank you to Trump, who makes it possible to create peace in Ukraine. Or then a praise for the “Special Relationship”, the special relationship that was conjured up by every British prime minister to the United States.

Exactly that relationship, or rather the illusion of it, it was that the British had led to George W. Bush in the Fatal War on George W. Bush. Even then it was a Labor Prime Minister, Tony Blair who had been tied up with a US president. An ominous omen for Strander’s conversation with Trump. It should not have escaped the current Prime Minister Strander, who had protected against the invasion of the invasion of Iraq with hundreds of thousands of British.

Then, on Friday, the scandal in Washington. The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj, has been supporting Russian troops from four British prime ministers three years ago and greeted as hero three years ago, is disconnected by Trump and JD Vance to provoke a “Third World War”. Selenskyj was sitting when he had to endure the Tirade von Trump and Vance, exactly on the square, from which Keir Strander had paid homage to the President the day before.

Actually, a peace agreement signed by Selenskyj and Trump in Washington should be presented at today’s meeting of 18 European heads of state in London’s Lancaster House. Now standers are empty and the meeting is likely to become a crisis meeting.

With his charm offensive, Straiter wanted to make good weather in the run -up to Selenskyj’s visit and a guarantee that the United States might protect European peace forces stationed in Ukraine in the case of a Russian attack. He had not succeeded either.

But on his list there was also the avoidance of possible trading tariffs for Great Britain. The signs for this seemed to be good; Trump, who had just occupied imports from the EU with high tariffs, even waved unsuccessfully on Thursday with a possible trade agreement for the kingdom, this Holy Grail, to which the British has been chasing from the EU since it left.

Should the Brexit opponent Strander bring this first real Brexit advantage over the finish line, it would be a sensation.

In Washington you know that. There you also know how precarious the island’s situation has been since Brexit. , a British consultant described the British balancing hike between the global business powers USA, EU and China before Keir Strander’s visit to the White House. “We have to be careful not to be trampled by anyone.”

The lawyer Keir Strandmer does not yet want to give up the belief in diplomacy and rationality. He still wants to hold on to a world in which laws and agreements apply, a world order that has finally belonged to the past since Donald Trump’s second move in. He tries to save the “Special Relationship”, which has not been there for a long time.

He recently wanted to build a diplomatic bridge between Europe and a US administration that basically rejects the democratic values ​​of Europe-and especially that of the EU-and tries to actively destroy and actively destroy.

At the latest since the Munich Security Conference two weeks ago and there, there are also increasing the voices of those who think that the voices are well -meaning but naive. The question is why you still want to build a bridge today when earthquakes raged on the other side, the ex-diplomat Lord Rickett to the broadcaster LBC yesterday.

“There is no search thing as a free lunch” is an English proverb – a lunch that is really free. Keir Strander is a clever man and realistic enough to know that Trump’s government also plays a bad game with him. He knows what the price for a trade contract with the British required by Trump will be: the further political encapsulation of the kingdom of Europe.

At the same time, Strander is one of the few European politicians who at least seem to be heard at Trump. For Europe, the head of state could now become a mediator figure whose country the EU had turned his back nine years ago. However, Starmer first has to decide who in this new, dangerous world situation are the real allied Britain.