Fear or trust?

Who fears and trusts the United States? This crucial question is being asked at this time, not by opponents of the US, but by some of the people who held very important positions in Washington. Congress has frozen the process of approving military aid to Ukraine.

This is happening at a time when Russian President Vladimir Putin has become stronger politically as well as on the battlefield. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy obviously realizes that the positive scenario for his country is to keep the defense line exactly where it is today. The plan to recover the territories currently occupied by Russia looks more and more like a chimera. Ukrainian soldiers have no ammunition to fight and are forced to wait to see what the US Congress will decide and whether Donald Trump will be re-elected president.

The Biden administration, it is true, supported Ukraine as much...