Why Ukraine’s European allies will be nervously watching VE Day events in Red Square

Donald Trump has a soft spot for military spectacles and autocrats. He will be looking on with envy as Vladimir Putin parades both in Moscow today, with Chinese leader Xi Jinping flying in to join Victory Day events in Red Square. European allies of Ukraine will be watching nervously, wary of anything that could upturn the delicate quest for peace. President Trump’s patience with peddling his much vaunted “peace deal” has been wearing thin and allies had feared Ukraine could be punished for it. That would have been grotesquely unfair, of course. Ukraine has bent over backwards to accommodate Mr…