No Longer a Hotline: Trump’s Call With Putin This Morning Reflects New Limits to Big Powers
France, Britain suggest willingness to send troops to enforce potential peace pact in Ukraine amid uncertainty over scope of Putin’s demands.
Last weekend, a French Airborne Warning and Control System plane flew a long reconnaissance mission over the Black Sea, near Russia-controlled Crimea. Two French Rafale fighter jets flew alongside for protection. The intel gathering mission for Ukraine was not a NATO mission. It was purely French.
This morning, President Trump and President Putin are to talk on the phone. One goal, in Mr. Trump’s words, is “dividing up certain assets” between Russia and Ukraine. Yet as the two leaders link up for a telephonic version of the Yalta summit of 1945, the French patrol near Yalta illustrates how blocs are shifting in 2025.
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