In a Guardian comment piece, Paul Taylor warns that Donald Trump may be close to cutting a deal with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine's head, rewarding Russia's aggression while Trump's circle secures Russian business deals, and judges that preventing this sellout is Europe's greatest security priority. He urges Europe to leverage frozen Russian assets into a reparations loan for Kyiv, tighten sanctions, send Patriot interceptors, and jointly tell Trump any deal without them will be rejected.