Keir Starmer’s ad hoc alliance could still fight to materialize

United Kingdom Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer says that a “large amount” has happened since his idea of ​​”The Willing Coalition” emerged for the first time at its Lancaster House summit fifteen days ago.

He is not wrong: the relations between the United States and Ukraine have been in a roller mountain since then, which culminated in the meeting in Riyader earlier this week, where the two parts according to a high 30 -day fire.

But the Sir Keir coalition is a large company, still somewhat nebula, and there is clearly a lot of work to do before this ad hoc alliance is ready to assume something so complex and potentially dangerous, as maintaining peace in Ukraine.

Sir Keir says that the coalition is now larger and that the “new commitments” are on the table, although he did not explain them.

The participants of the Virtual Summit on Saturday morning, he said, had agreed The Vladimir Putin war machine.

The planning, he said, would now move to an “operational phase”, with military leaders who will meet in the United Kingdom next Thursday.

“In general, we are successfully gathering political and military impulse,” he said.

We are likely to see a rolling set of political, diplomatic and military meetings as the plan takes shape slowly.

It is far from simple navigation.

When asked about vital American military support for any operation led by Europe, which is called a “support”, the prime minister was clear: the position of the United States had not changed.

The European national security advisors, including Jonathan Powell, one of the accredited with convincing the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to accept the proposal of Alto El Fuego of the United States, were in Washington on Friday.

Unless the president of the United States Donald Trump’s position in changes in support, Sir Keir’s coalition of the provisions could fight to take off.

For Zelensky, the military clock is marking, especially in Kursk, where their troops have been Occupying a reduction of Russian territory since August 2024.

Ukraine vehemently denies the reports that his forces are surrounded in Kursk, a theory promoted by Trump on Friday, but are clearly under enormous pressure and are losing ground.

When I was in kyiv towards the end of last year, the Ukrainian troops told us that they clung to the territory in Kursk as a negotiation chip that will be played in future negotiations.

But as these negotiations approach, it is a chip that Putin seems determined to remove first from the table.

That can be a way of explaining its approach “yes, but” to the idea of ​​a high fire of 30 days.