Steve Witkoff, American Middle-East envoy, announces meeting in Saudi Arabia between Americans and Ukrainians next week to formulate a framework for a peace plan between Ukraine and Russia.
In the meantime, the UK Defence Secretary has flown to Washington to meet with his American counterpart to discuss further agreements on Defence between the USA and the UK, in the backdrop of the French President, Emanuel Macron, addressing the French people about future defence strategy, and a meeting of EU leaders with President Zelensky of Ukraine to discuss further support for Ukraine, and a greater investment in defence spending by EU leaders, 20 of whom have already expressed willingness to join Sir Keir Starmer’s ‘Coalition of The Willing’, defined at a meeting of European leaders on Sunday.
Mexico is negotiating on the tariffs imposed by the USA, the Chinese have declared that they are willing to engage in any kind of war (trade or otherwise) with the Americans, and Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, described his latest phone call with Donald Trump on the subject of Tariffs as “colourful”.
Significant changes are happening throughout the world as what is being described as a ‘new world order’ begins to take shape. Just how that will affect the ordinary citizens of the UK, and other nations throughout the world, remains to be seen.