No, as a political power, EU was never alive. Now it is (too) slowly growing, still very immature but more present than 10-15y ago.
Today, the weight lies more with the countries ( 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 ... and non EU 🇬🇧).
Geopolitically, there are only small countries in Europe. Only EU 🇪🇺 can make us stronger.

2/2 Rutte's statement that Russia doesnt decide whether the West can deploy troops to Ukraine is an exception - we need more of this. Russia cannot first invade Ukraine & then object to foreign armies in 🇺🇦
We should expose Putin for the bluffer he is & contradict his misinterpretations on the spot!

Any "security guarantee" to protect Ukraine against future Russian attacks should be relevant, close to the front line, heavily armed and prepared to fight.
If Putin "vetoes" it, the right response is: "You lost the right to veto anything when you started an invasion."

We 🇪🇺 are stronger than we think. Time we act accordingly.

I.e. no longer wait & ponder on Russian or American proposals, but stand by Ukraine & push measures that can derail Russia's war machine.
Yes, extra + secondary sanctions
Yes, we will arm/defend 🇺🇦
Yes, there will be European peace troops

Sound about right. As long as he thinks continuing the war has a chance of delivering gains, Vladimir Vladimirovich & Sergey Viktorovich have zero interest in a negotiated settlement at anything short of their demands (regime change in Kyiv, no NATO, recognition of Crimea & Novorossiya as 🇷🇺)

You cannot "negotiate" a peace agreement with Putin, unless the pressure on Russian society & economy has forced him to concede.
We need more sanctions now!

Westen foreign troops in Ukraine would not be necessary if those other foreign troops hadn't invaded the country in 2022!

Get out, Russia (and get lost, Soviet Sergey)

I usually use -ise endings, but indeed, Z is more appropriate here, LOL

Nobody needs to "demonise" Russia. Putin is doing that quite effectively himself.

Russia could be a great country. The popular culture around art, national literature, or some sports is enviable. (The impression you get from the last part of "The Queen's Gambit" is quite realistic IMHO). But alas-

Isn't it about time that, instead of responding to Russian proposals and vetos,the West pushes ITS proposals for a ceasefire, ELSE (secondary) sanctions expand, etc?
Only a show of force can move Putin!

Yes, Europe needs a single voice. But no, don't go with Starmer or Rutte
Stubb would be a better spokesperson for Europe: fluent English speaker, tough debater, gets along with Trump on a personal level, knows 🇷🇺 first hand & as the leader of a smaller country not a threat to the big countries

The overall tone is that there is "no result from the summit" ...except this one: Trump had (finally) committed to slap sanctions on Russia if they did not move towards a peace fire. After the summit, a ceasefire is off the table - and so are sanctions.

Putin returns to Moscow with a solid win.

NATO precedent: after the split of Germany in 1949, W. Germany joined NATO in 1955 - with a bit of a stretch, that was a part of Germany

Kellogg's proposal could be useful: grant UA west of the Dnipro full NATO membership, but not east of the river (allowing UA to focus all resources on the east)

Russia demands to hand over all of the 4 oblasts, "that is our constitution" (but 3 out of 4 are only partially held by RU).

🇷🇺 constitution doesn't give a map. If the 🇷🇺 govt wants to draw the boundaries at the front line, there is no legal issue.
Ukraine may accept the frontline, but not "de jure".

This can be not just be a Yalta #2.
I also see a link to the Polish partitions 1772-1795, the 3 steps of cutting up Poland. At the end, Poland had disappeared from the map.