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In Standoff With Putin, Biden Makes Sure European Allies Are With Him

02/01/2022
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In Standoff With Putin, Biden Makes Sure European Allies Are With Him

UK: When President Biden held a video call with European leaders about Ukraine this week, it had all the urgency of a Cold War-era crisis, replete with the specter of Russian tanks and troops menacing Eastern Europe. But Mr. Biden expanded the seats on his war council, adding Poland, Italy and the European Union to the familiar lineup of Britain, France and Germany.

The effort to be inclusive was no accident: After complaints from Europeans that they were blindsided by the swift American withdrawal from Afghanistan last summer, and that France was frozen out of a new defense alliance with Australia, Mr. Biden has gone out of his way to involve allies in every step of this crisis.

For the Biden administration, it amounts to a much-needed diplomatic reset. The United States, European officials say, has acted with energy and some dexterity in orchestrating the response to Russia’s threatening moves. Since mid-November, it has conducted at least 180 senior-level meetings or other contacts with European officials. Some marvel at having their American counterparts on speed dial.

Despite being dragged down at home by domestic problems and viewed as a transitional figure in some skeptical European capitals, the president has emerged as the leader of the West’s effort to confront the threats from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. The administration’s emphasis on unity, American officials say, is largely intended to frustrate Mr. Putin’s desire to use the crisis to fracture NATO.

 

President Biden on the phone with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last month. 

President Biden on the phone with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine last month. Credit…Doug Mills/The New York Times

 

Before delivering a written response to Mr. Putin’s security demands on Ukraine on Wednesday, the administration traded multiple drafts of the document with the Europeans, insisting that every paragraph that affected individual countries be reviewed, word for word, by their leaders, according to American officials.

“The concern here was ‘no surprises,’” said one official who was involved.

The Russians, who want the West to pledge that Ukraine will never join NATO, gave a cool reception to the American responses on Thursday, saying there was “not much cause for optimism,” and leaving unclear what their next step might be.

In a phone call on Thursday, Mr. Biden told President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine that the United States and its allies would “respond decisively if Russia further invades Ukraine,” according to a White House statement, and that the United States was considering ways to help Ukraine’s economy.

The United States also called for the United Nations Security Council to hold an open meeting on Monday to discuss “Russia’s threatening behavior against Ukraine.”

“This is not a moment to wait and see,” Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said in a statement on Thursday.

Understand Russia’s Relationship With the West

The tension between the regions is growing and Russian President Vladimir Putin is increasingly willing to take geopolitical risks and assert his demands.

The United States is not relying on diplomacy alone. It has put 8,500 troops on alert to be deployed to Eastern Europe, sent defensive weapons to Ukraine, and is negotiating to divert natural gas from other suppliers if Russia cuts off pipelines that supply Germany and other countries.

“We had a low point in terms of trust and mutual respect last summer because of the Afghanistan breakdown,” said Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German ambassador to Washington. Now, he said, “no one can complain that there isn’t a renewed sense of American leadership.”

Mr. Biden’s handling of the crisis has not been without missteps: His recent statement that a “minor incursion” by Russia would provoke a different response from the West than an invasion angered Ukraine and alarmed European governments, especially those bordering Russia. It necessitated a hurried cleanup operation by the White House.

 

Russian soldiers taking part in a drill at the Kuzminsky range in the southern Rostov region.

Russian soldiers taking part in a drill at the Kuzminsky range in the southern Rostov region.Credit…Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters

 

Europeans worry about Mr. Biden’s staying power, the potential return of former President Donald J. Trump, and the resolve of the United States, for which Ukraine is not an on-the-doorstep crisis as it is for Europe. Some believe Mr. Putin is exploiting the same perceived vulnerabilities on both sides of the ocean.

“He senses weakness in Biden and a certain amount of political churn in Europe,” said Ian Bond, a former British diplomat who is now head of foreign policy at the Center for European Reform, a London research group. “Germany has a new government finding its feet, French elections, U.K. not in great shape, Europe emerging from pandemic. I think he does see Biden as a quite weak transitional figure.”

Indeed, Mr. Putin is driving events more than Mr. Biden. His aggressive tactics are forcing Europe and the United States together. And he has shown little interest in striking a deal on Ukraine with anyone other than the president of the “other superpower.”

That testifies to the central role of the United States in guaranteeing the security of Europe.

It also means that whatever the doubts about Mr. Biden in Moscow or European capitals, he will be the fulcrum of the West’s response. Europeans say he has embraced that role with more enthusiasm than either Mr. Trump or his former boss, President Barack Obama.

Mr. Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine and pressured its president to investigate Mr. Biden, then looming as his political rival. Mr. Obama did not view Ukraine as a core strategic interest of the United States even after the annexation of Crimea, prompting France and Germany to create a group that has met periodically with Russia and Ukraine since 2014 to discuss how to curb hostilities.

“When the Ukrainian crisis erupted in 2014, the American policy was, ‘Try not to get involved,’” said Gérard Araud, a former French ambassador to Washington. “They outsourced the handling of it to France and Germany.”

 

German, French and British foreign ministers met with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken last week in Berlin.

German, French and British foreign ministers met with Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken last week in Berlin.Credit…Pool photo by Kay Nietfeld

 

The White House’s efforts in part reflect the bitter lesson of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, when Europeans criticized the United States for failing to consult them, a charge the White House disputes.

Mr. Ischinger, who now chairs the Munich Security Conference, recalled an American official telling him at that time that the era had passed in which the United States viewed itself as a “European power,” one whose active involvement was critical to the continent’s strategic balance.

“What we have witnessed over the last couple of weeks demonstrates this was an incorrect assessment,” he said.

This time, American officials have consulted with a galaxy of groups encompassing the political and security bureaucracy of the European continent: the European Union, the European Commission, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Bucharest Nine, a group of eastern NATO members.

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Ominous warnings. Russia called the strike a destabilizing act that violated the cease-fire agreement, raising fears of a new intervention in Ukraine that could draw the United States and Europe into a new phase of the conflict.

The Kremlin’s position. President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who has increasingly portrayed NATO’s eastward expansion as an existential threat to his country, said that Moscow’s military buildup was a response to Ukraine’s deepening partnership with the alliance.

“They learned a real lesson from Afghanistan,” said Ivo Daalder, a former American ambassador to NATO. “They have been extraordinarily effective, in a way we haven’t seen for a long time, in engaging with allies.”

One challenge for Mr. Biden, experts say, is the lack of a European leader to help pull the rest of the continent into line. That was the role former Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany played for Mr. Obama and President George W. Bush. It was the role former Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain played for Mr. Bush, with little success on Iraq, and for President Bill Clinton, with more success on Kosovo.

 

Artillerists from the Ukrainian Army's 53rd Mechanized Brigade at a military training site in Volnovakha, Ukraine, on Thursday.

Artillerists from the Ukrainian Army’s 53rd Mechanized Brigade at a military training site in Volnovakha, Ukraine, on Thursday.Credit…Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times

 

Britain’s current prime minister, Boris Johnson, is preoccupied by a scandal over parties at Downing Street during the pandemic. In any event, Britain’s departure from the European Union has deprived it of its traditional role as a bridge between Washington and Brussels, though it remains a central player in NATO.

Britain has tried to stake out a forceful role, shipping antitank weapons to Ukraine and drafting legislation that will allow it to impose sanctions on Russia if it launches an invasion. But it is driven more by a post-Brexit desire to act independently than to serve as a wingman for Washington.

France has also hardened its position, with President Emmanuel Macron offering to send troops to Romania to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank. But Mr. Macron faces an election in April, and he, too, has asserted a more independent role for Europe in engaging with Russia. On Friday, he and Mr. Putin will speak by phone.

French diplomats said Mr. Macron’s efforts should not be viewed as an obstacle to the United States because he has pledged to take any common European position to NATO, where it would be thrashed out with the Americans.

“Macron’s problem is Germany,” Mr. Araud said.

 

President Emmanuel Macron of France, left, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday in Berlin. European officials emphasize that Germany is prepared to pay a significant price if Russia takes further action in Ukraine.

President Emmanuel Macron of France, left, with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday in Berlin. European officials emphasize that Germany is prepared to pay a significant price if Russia takes further action in Ukraine.Credit…Pool photo by Tobias Schwarz

 

The new coalition government in Germany is being pulled in different directions, with the Greens and the Free Democrats more inclined to take a hard line against Moscow, while the Social Democrats are traditionally eager to preserve trade and diplomatic ties. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, has been a diffident figure so far.

“You don’t have reassuring Merkel, who can calm things down and keep everything pulling in the same direction,” said Jonathan Powell, who served as chief of staff to Mr. Blair.

Despite all the potential for disunity, diplomats point out that Europe, NATO and the United States agree on two fundamental issues. No one plans to send combat troops into Ukraine. All agree on the importance of imposing sanctions on Russia, though the Europeans, particularly the Germans, may balk at the most draconian measures because of the collateral damage to their economies.

European officials insist that Germany is willing to pay a significant price and that nothing is off the table, including the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that would send gas from Russia to Western Europe — and give Mr. Putin valuable leverage.

Mr. Putin’s string of provocations — moving large numbers of troops into Belarus, and holding large military exercises on Ukraine’s borders, naval exercises in the Baltic Sea and even a planned exercise off the coast of Ireland — have drawn Europeans and Americans together in a way that no European or American leader could.

“Putin is so extreme in his demands and threats that it’s impossible not to close ranks with other countries,” Mr. Araud said. “You don’t have an alliance without a threat, and Putin is a threat.”

By Mark Landler, Steven Erlanger and David E. Sanger

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