Disadvantages of the authorities ahead of Stramer’s US visit

When the Sir Kir Stmper touches in Washington next week, it will be running on a good diplomatic line.

He would like to maintain his support for the President of President Volodimier Zelansky and Ukraine. But he also wants to achieve President Donald Trump’s ear on talks launched with Russia to end the war.

All this keeping out of the toxic oral crossfire between Washington and Kyiv.

This will not be an easy task.

The transatlantic relations are in pieces. The US President has raised the US’s long -term support for Ukraine and has sidelined Europe in this process.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says European security is no longer an American priority. Vice President JD Vance attacks the nature of European democracy.

It is in the virtue of ideological enmity that Sir Kir will demand a hearing when he meets the President and his team at the White House.

So what should the Prime Minister do and what to do?

Diplomats say that they have an advantage on European allies, ie their stability. Trump, he says, Sir Kir is one of the few European leaders who will remain in power during his presidential post. Trump, it is called, prefers the fact that the Prime Minister has a healthy parliamentary majority.

“I meet him well,” Trump told BBC a few weeks ago. “I like him very much. He is generous, which is a little different from me, but I think he is a very good person and I think he has done a great job so far.”

But hot words and familiar Washington do not pay for lunch with beltway.

Can Sir Keir offer the famous transaction president? He has already made a downpayment by offering to deploy British shoes on the ground in Ukraine as part of the post -war assurance force.

This angered some European leaders, who considered it a premature and divisive. It also took the risk of being out of discussion about more fundamental issues like Ukraine and more fundamental issues such as sovereignty. But Sir Kir offering soldiers may get some diplomatic brownie points in the West Wing.

The second thing that can offer Sir Keir Trump is the strongest possible language that he can promise to increase the UK defense spending. The stormer is not expected to announce when it will meet his target to spend 2.5% of national income on defense. But he can talk about Britain’s commitment and other European colleagues in a similar way.

Former Mi6 head Sir Alex Younger told BBC Two Newsnight: “We need to showcase that we are ready to play a role, control our own environment, recognizing that we develop our power to develop our power Got to do and it has got it quickly. “

“That is, the terms of any ceasefire – its fairness, its durability, its safety measures – were important as any short -term termination of enmity. In other words, there is no point in having a victorious ceasefire agreement that Trump’s Trump Ki Putting the reputation at risk does not survive for a long time.

“If I had been satisfied, I would tell Trump that this is your opportunity for your place in history, the person who brought peace and ends this war,” former UK Ambassador to Lord Daroch today’s BBC Radio 4K Told the program. ,

“But this should be a proper deal. If it’s a bad deal, you are not going to receive that appreciation, you are going to get a weight of criticism and will record your records.”

For this, the key Trump will be urged to pressurize Vladdir Putin on Vladdir Putin to confiscate the frozen Russian assets, increase support for Ukraine and threaten to tighten the restrictions.

But the risks of the Prime Minister’s visit are very large. Famous thin President Sir Kir can commit a crime on his outright contradiction of his claim that Zelanski is a dictator. He may be irritated by Sir Keir’s insistence that any European assurance force deployed in Ukraine should have a US “backstop”, which is expected as aiCover.

Cross Words and the diplomatic damage to the canceled press conference will disturb the minds of the British authorities as they are ready for the journey. He would fully know French President Macron that he will compete for Mr. Trump’s ear in Washington.

Sir Kir likes to say that in these troubled times, Britain can once again become a bridge between Europe and America. France can also be curious for that role.

Another possible point of stress would be trade. Team Trump is promising to put tariffs on UK goods that are entering the US who match the VAT on American goods entering the UK. An argument that Britain can do is that killing British and European trade will be difficult for them to spend more on defense. But officials say it would be a difficult argument for a President who thinks that Europe is stopping America both economic and military.

However, the biggest risk is that any method of attraction, politics or diplomacy will touch the sides of this new administration. There is no transaction offering that can bridge the huge ideological division that now exists between Europe and America. The British delegation in Washington can be a cold hard lesson learning.

“We are living in an US presidential post that is based on great power diplomacy,” said an official. “If we can work within him, it’s okay. If not, God helps us.”