As the peace negotiations face the inevitable hurdles from both the Russian and the Ukrainian sides, it’s now the Europeans that are doing their level best to derail the process.
And it’s UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France’s President Emmanuel Macron who are the self-appointed ‘saboteurs-in-chief’ tasked with posturing and lecturing to the all-too-friendly MSM.
Now, Starmer and Macron started to patronize US President Donald J. Trump and his team, ‘warning’ them against ‘trusting Vladimir Putin’.
Besides that, they both made it clear they will not relax any sanctions on Russia as part of a ceasefire deal – effectively impeding it.
Politico reported:
“At a summit in Paris on Thursday ― the latest in a series held in London, Brussels and the French capital over recent weeks ― Ukraine’s allies further poured scorn on the idea that it was time to go soft. By doing so, they presented a direct challenge to the U.S., which has suggested that loosening the strict curbs on Russian companies’ ability to do business with the rest of the world could be used as a sweetener to get Moscow to stop the fighting.
“The collective view is that Russia is playing games, that Putin is back to his old playbook,” British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters after the meeting. He said leaders want to ‘get Russia more seriously to the negotiation table’.”
Yes, you read it right: Starmer implies that the US-led negotiations are ‘not serious’.
The limited cease fire against energy infrastructure and suspension of attacks in the Black Sea are hinging on some of the sanctions against Russia being lifted – and Euro-Globalists can’t let that happen!
Some of the sanctions that need relief, like banks’ exclusion from the Swift international payment system ― were imposed by the EU.
“The 27 leaders gathered in Paris, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, agreed they would not soften sanctions until peace was achieved, French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters.
[…] ’President Trump is waiting for a clear answer from the Russians’, Macron said. ‘If he has the clear message the Russians are not coming [to the table], he will feel deceived, betrayed. And he would have to react’.”
Again: condescending Macron thinks that if the EU torpedoes the deal, that will turn Trump against Putin – does that even make any sense?
In the end, Europe has no place at the negotiating table, but they can – and will – sabotage the deal. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky pretends to not trash US Special envoy Steve Witkoff:
“Zelenskyy singled out American envoy Steve Witkoff ― who dismissed Europe’s plan to send troops to Ukraine to keep the peace as ‘a combination of a posture and a pose’ ― as someone ‘from another world’. ‘It is not that I am attacking him. We just live in different realities’, Zelenskyy said.”
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