Trump’s new Yalta: Eastern Europe risks being on the wrong side of the divide

Trump’s new Yalta: Eastern Europe risks being on the wrong side of the divide

Cover image: picture alliance / REUTERS | Stoyan Nenov Two events, one week apart, reveal a troubling pattern. On 14th February, US vice president J.D. Vance launched an assault on the EU at the Munich Security Conference, followed by a brazen demand that Ukraine surrender half its future mineral wealth in exchange for continued US military aid. A week later in Sofia, a violent mob linked to the pro-Russian, nationalist Revival party attacked th…