Europe is in complete chaos due to the Ukrainian crisis but also after America's brutal performance in Munich, and additional uncertainty in transatlantic relations was contributed by the meeting of leaders from Moscow and Washington in Riyadh, where there was no room for Europeans and Ukrainians.

What this will mean for Europe and in what direction relations between the United States and the Old Continent will develop are the main topics and dilemmas that world media are writing about these days. media houses.

In the room where the Munich Security Conference was held, according to some participants, after the speech of the American Vice President, there was a silence and tension that could almost be felt.

On the other hand, in Riyadh, the Americans and Russians began to divide Ukraine and the future spheres of influence of the two great powers, without the presence of the Europeans and Ukrainians. There was no place for them even on the bench.

At the same time, Donald Trump told Zelensky that he could participate in negotiations on the future of Ukraine, but only when he organizes elections, as his current approval rating is below five percent.

All this, as the media reports, about several European leaders, stunned by the slaps from Munich, hastily gathered in Paris, trying to find a "solution to the newly created situation."

However, the American public commented on their gathering as a "meeting of failed ideas" because Trump told them that they had three years to resolve the war in Ukraine, but they did not.

Have the Americans finally sobered up from their one-sided and unrealistic policy towards Russia, writes Serbian Politika on this topic.

The Munich Security Conference shook both sides of the Atlantic

As the media outlet has reported for decades, the Munich Security Conference was a forum for sharp, even tense, security debate between both sides of the Atlantic. But now Washington's European allies were horrified by what J.D. Vance threw in their faces.

Before leaving for Munich, Vance told the Wall Street Journal that the United States would have "economic and military tools of influence" if Russia did not agree to a satisfactory peace deal with Ukraine.

Vance met with leaders of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is shunned by Germany's main parties, ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for February 23.

"It is now clear that the US wants to destroy the post-World War II order that it created. And that includes destroying the EU. We will have to be prepared for that and completely change our position," said one European diplomat.

"Listening to that speech, they are trying to argue with us, and we don't want to argue with our friends," said Kaja Kallas, the EU's top diplomat, after Vance's speech.

"We have to understand that we are looking at a new United States of America, the state we saw in the past has already disappeared," another European diplomat said, Reuters reported.

The former US diplomat recalled the sour laughter from attendees in one of the main listening rooms outside the packed main conference hall when Vance mentioned the "shared" values ​​of the US and Europe.

The meeting between the American delegation, led by Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which took place on the sidelines of Munich, did not clarify the position of either Kiev or Europe, writes Euroactiv.

Meanwhile, Europeans are expected to rally around a single flag in the coming days to try to respond to this challenge, but the big question is what they can really offer.

Several European diplomats in Munich told Euroactiv that it may be time for Europe to develop its own strategy in case American efforts "go in a different direction."