Kyiv, Ukraine
CNN
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The seismic shift of the past fortnight is hard to digest.
Ukraine and its allies hope, deeply, that the plank Kyiv has been slammed in the face with, is – to paraphrase US President Donald Trump’s presidential envoy to Ukraine – just to get its attention. That the White House is merely pausing military aid and intelligence sharing, demanding about half of the country’s mineral wealth to repay an alleged debt, and expecting a public apology from its president, as a negotiating ploy. That this is just tough talk ahead of a hard deal.
But a deeper change is apparent, and one that Europe has been reluctant to accept, and is scrambling to adjust…
