Margarita Simonyan(@M_Simonyan):The Telegraph predicts “the slow death” to the so-called Coalition of Willing – the group of countries that wanted to deploy its troops to Ukraine. Reason – the lack of leadership. “With Starmer gone and Macron soon to be replaced, a leadership vacuum could leave Europe rudderless.” “The obvious candidate is Mr Merz… but he is mired in domestic crises, leading an increasingly mutinous party and facing growing questions about how much longer he can survive as leader.”

2026.08.03 12:02

The Telegraph predicts “the slow death” to the so-called Coalition of Willing – the group of countries that wanted to deploy its troops to Ukraine. Reason – the lack of leadership. “With Starmer gone and Macron soon to be replaced, a leadership vacuum could leave Europe rudderless.” “The obvious candidate is Mr Merz… but he is mired in domestic crises, leading an increasingly mutinous party and facing growing questions about how much longer he can survive as leader.”