The President of the United States (US), Donald Trump, shifted international geopolitics by taking two interconnect­ed steps. One is towards ending the war in Ukraine, and the second is to reset the US’s relations with Russia. Trump’s moves in this direction, beginning with the ice-breaking 90-minute phone call to Russian President Vladimir Putin (13 February 2025), have been followed up by two tracks of meetings. One, between Trump and his allies from Europe, including Ukraine, and second, high-level meetings between the Trump and Russian teams. One press conference (28 February) resulted in a public spat bet­ween Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, after which all US military shipments to Ukraine were paused, putting enough pressure on Zelensky who now agrees to come back to US peace terms. The European leadership is scrambling for its own response. The interests between Europeans and Americans have changed, and the transatlantic alliance is adrift.