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To the Editor:

Re “U.S. and Russia Eye Thaw in Relations as Diplomats Meet” (front page, Feb. 19) and “Zelensky Urges ‘More Truth’ After Trump Suggests Ukraine Started the War” (nytimes.com, Feb. 19):

Over the years, Ms. Judd told her son extremely little about her missing husband, who remained unaccounted for until May of this year. The Defense Department said earlier this month that her husband, Staff Sgt. John A. Tarbert of the Air Force was killed at 24 after his plane was attacked while flying over Germany 80 years ago this Friday.

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The plaintiffs — who include Wendy Davis, a former Democratic state senator, along with a Biden campaign staff member and the bus driver — also testified,betef saying that the rolling road protest had been frightening and intimidating.

President Trump is now blatantly and irresponsibly blaming Ukraine for the Ukraine war — “You should have never started it” — as he seeks common cause with President Vladimir Putin of Russia.

Mr. Trump’s headlong plunge into ending the war has all the signs of amateur diplomacy, with potentially destabilizing consequences for the United States, Ukraine and overall European security.

His hastily arranged summitry could essentially dictate, along with Mr. Putin, terms for a likely unacceptable peace settlement between Ukraine and Russia that relegates Ukraine and NATO allies to junior status.

It appears to be the president’s opening salvo in an unmistakable shift in American foreign policy focus away from Europe while strengthening ties with Mr. Putin. The president is clearly upending an 80-year period of European stability, held together by American guarantees.

Mr. Trump’s shortsighted foreign policy could embolden Mr. Putin in the future to again try to incorporate a less secure Ukraine into Russia and threaten a demoralized and weakened NATO as America disengages.

A fairly negotiated end to the Ukraine war — with solid security guarantees — would lead to that country’s rebirth. But Ukraine and the rest of Europe will always need an American security blanket, something they sadly may be about to lose, hopefully to get it back in a post-Trump world.

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