The leaders of Europe ganged up on President Donald Trump to drill into his head how critically important it is to stand by Ukraine at Monday's meeting, CNN global affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier told anchor Brianna Keilar.
The meeting, which was marked by some embarrassing slip-ups for the president, comes a few days after Trump welcomed Russia's Vladimir Putin to a summit in Alaska, which ended with no clear progress toward a peace deal and the president seemingly persuaded against some of the hawkishness he had shown toward Russia over the past few weeks.
"Kim, what did you think as you were watching this Round Robin, I guess, in a way?" asked Keilar. "This was — it was pretty interesting to have each of these leaders have a chance to speak their mind for a few moments."
"I feel like it was fascinating to watch them tag team Donald Trump," Dozier agreed. "It's like they called each other up and figured out who was going to bring up what ugly point that Trump didn't want to talk about, so that [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy emerges as the good cop and they were all sort of the medium troublesome cops."
"Two of them brought up, we really did want a ceasefire, we really need a ceasefire. Several of them made the point to say Article V, like security guarantees," she continued. "Now, let's remind everybody what Article V is. It's the part of NATO that says an attack on one is an attack on all. And the only country that's ever used it is the U.S., when the U.S. was attacked on 9/11."
"So this is to say, in public, and have Trump agree to it, that, yes, we're going to give Ukraine some really strong security guarantees backed up by boots on the ground, and maybe it's just going to be U.S. intelligence and U.S. air support and continued U.S. weapons supplies that the U.S. would be paid for, but they don't want him to get talked out of this by Putin," she added.
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