Trump's 28-point Plan: Landsbergis Warns ‘This Is the End of the End’

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Former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says Trump’s 28-point plan is a blunt message: Europe is on its own. He urges EU leaders to drop the ‘flight to Washington’ reflex, fund Ukraine with €190bn, and reclaim strategic dignity.

By TRH Foreign Affairs Desk

New Delhi, November 22, 2025 — Gabrielius Landsbergis, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, has delivered one of the sharpest warnings yet to Europe in his latest newsletter: Trump’s proposed 28-point “peace plan” is not a negotiation blueprint — it is a wake-up call.

“There is a glaringly obvious message for Europe in the 28-point plan: This is the end of the end,” he writes, arguing that the era of outsourcing European security to Washington has effectively collapsed.

Landsbergis says the United States has made its position repeatedly and unmistakably clear: Ukraine’s security — and therefore Europe’s security — is Europe’s responsibility. The transatlantic safety net that leaders took for granted for decades is no longer guaranteed.

In a direct rebuke to European leaders preparing diplomatic pilgrimages to the White House, he cautions: “If you are a European leader asking your team to book you on the next flight to Washington to go talk to Daddy, please don’t. Not without a plan, not cap in hand, not humiliating us all in front of the cameras at the Oval Office.”

The Lithuanian statesman argues that Europe is not helpless, not poor, and not devoid of power — it only behaves as if it is. The EU, he writes, has extensive capabilities and must finally decide to use them: “Europe is our continent, our future is decided here, not there.”

Waiting for a miracle from Washington, he says, is not only futile — it is strategically humiliating.

Landsbergis points to his New York Times essay, “Nothing Succeeds With Trump Quite Like Success,” arguing that whether or not Europe can win back Trump’s support is beside the point. What matters is demonstrating results on the battlefield and in policy. Success, he says, is the only language Trump respects.

And Europe can deliver that success on its own terms. A real peace plan in Europe, Landsbergis insists, would require only two signatures: the EU and Ukraine. “The EU and Ukraine could easily write their own plan for €190bn and change the game forever,” he notes — and no external permission is required.

For a continent that once shaped global geopolitics, the message is blunt: dignity is not granted, it is exercised. Europe now stands at the frontier of its own security — it can either act like a power or continue waiting for help that may never come.