‘The US is ready to hand Russia a win’: newspapers on Europe’s Trump shock

European papers express deep alarm at declaration of an ideological war', while the NYT says Putin may soon realise his dream'

This year's Munich security conference exposed the chasm in core values separating the Trump administration from most Europeans and sparked deep alarm at US efforts to control the Ukraine peace process and exclude European governments from it.

Here is what some of the main European and US newspapers had to say about it.