Max Hjelm: The proposed meeting should send shivers down the spine of Europe's leaders

It may be fall, but it's spring for unholy alliances.

Russia has, according to information to the Wall Street Journal, proposed to resolve the Ukraine war through diplomacy. But not by mixing in the ones he set out on. No, no. Through a meeting in November between Russia, the US and China.

For Vladimir Putin, such a meeting could not only lead to a favorable peace in Ukraine (read: that the country is forced to capitulate), but also make Russia look like a major player next to other major powers with their own sphere of interest.

For NATO, it would be a real Brutus blow if the strongest ally starts to broker peace for the country the defense alliance was created to protect the countries against.

For us in Europe, it is a frightening thought that some major powers would have meetings where they redraw the map of our continent.

Now there may not be a meeting. Joining Putin's club of internal and external tyranny could be too much even for the MAGA party. But Trump said Monday night that he is interested in the Russian proposal.

Meeting or not - the US's rapprochement with the authoritarian KRINK countries (China, Russia, Iran and North Korea) is moving alarmingly fast.

Donald Trump doesn't just have a well-known soft spot for despotic leaders. And he not only shares the view of the right of great powers to behave like mafia bosses in their "spheres of interest" with Putin. Trump is also happy to help these bad guys – even when it goes against American security.

Trump funnels money to the country that helps America's adversaries harm American troops.

Take the evolution of the Iran war. Trump, whose journey to the presidency began with his opposition to the "perpetual war" in the Middle East, decided to start one of his own. Which resulted in the world being thrown into an oil crisis. At the same time, Iran, which contributed drone technology to Russia in the Ukraine war, received help from Putin. Among other things, with satellite images to be able to attack American military bases. Nevertheless, Donald Trump calls the Russian president and gets a diesel deal. He funnels money into the country that helps America's adversaries harm American troops.

What on the surface looks like incompetence is probably also incompetence. But it is also about ideology. The leaders who dislike the free, open democratic world—and focus on accumulating power and money—collaborate.

Russia's proposed meeting with China and the United States, and the fact that the United States does not directly reject the idea, is yet another sign of the dangerous situation in which the countries of Europe find themselves.

The European Union, which was started so that we wouldn't go to war with each other, increasingly exists to protect us from others. Are our politicians that reality mature?