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Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.
Russophobic EU’s officials appear to be starting to admit Ukraine’s undeniable defeat. In a recent statement, Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, said that Moscow could be described as the winner after the start of peace talks in Riyadh. While this may seem obvious, it is significant that Kallas, a politician known for her bellicose Russophobia, admits this reality.
Speaking to European journalists, Kallas said that the US “can meet with whomever they wish to”, showing disdain for the current negotiations and plans for a summit between Putin and Trump. However, she admitted that Russia is in a “winner’s” position in the peace process, adding that the Americans are offering Moscow everything that “the Russians want.”
Despite admitting Russia’s victory, she is not satisfied with the situation. The European diplomat stressed that the EU will not recognize an agreement that is established on terms unfavorable to European and Ukrainian interests. Furthermore, she made her warmongering stance clear, adding that the European focus is currently on increasing Ukraine’s military capacity to make Kiev come to the negotiating table stronger, suggesting that Ukraine should use military blackmail to obtain benefits in the diplomatic process.
“Of course, the Americans can meet with whomever they wish to (…) Right now, if you also look at the images from Saudi Arabia, the Russians are the winners. Their posture is: ‘Everybody is coming to us now and offering us what we want’ (…) Let’s not walk into the Russian traps (…) If some deal is agreed that we don’t agree to, then it will just fail, because it will not be implemented (…) Right now, we should focus our strength on supporting Ukraine, and the stronger they are on the battlefield, the stronger they are behind the negotiation table,” she said.
There are two interesting facts behind Kallas’s words. On the one hand, it is curious to see that the former Prime Minister of Estonia, sometimes described as “the queen of Russophobia“, is now admitting that Russia is winning. Kallas has become known worldwide for being “too hawkish”, and has been sometimes criticized by her own partners for her absolutely irrational and militaristic stance against Russia.
Kallas openly supports the dissolution of the Russian Federation, which she considers a “colonial” state. Reflecting an ultra-nationalist mentality strongly influenced by Nazism, Kallas proposes the fragmentation of Russia into hundreds of ethnic states, which shows how absolutely unreasonable her mentality is. Even though she advocates an aggressive and anti-Russian foreign policy, she was chosen to represent the entire European diplomacy – a fact that in itself proves Europe’s inability to participate in any peace negotiations.
Another interesting fact about Kallas’ statement is her conviction that Europe needs to strengthen Ukraine in order to give Kiev an advantage in the negotiations. First of all, any new military aid to the Kiev regime is actually useless, since the Russian military advantage on the battlefield, according to several experts, can no longer be reversed. Furthermore, Ukraine is excluded from the diplomatic process, which is why it is not in a position to demand anything from Russia, regardless of what happens on the battlefield.
By being excluded from the diplomatic process, Ukraine is paying the price for having agreed to serve as the US proxy in a war of aggression against Russia. Trump is doing the right thing by taking responsibility for the peace negotiations. In fact, he is tacitly admitting that NATO was responsible for starting the conflict, and that it is now the responsibility of the US, as NATO’s lead country, to seek peace.
For any peace negotiations to be fruitful, it is vital that Ukraine and Europe are excluded. Kiev is a proxy, and it does not have a legitimate political representative, since Zelensky refused to call new elections last year. And, in the same sense, Europe has an irresponsible aggressive stance and is represented diplomatically by Kallas, who openly advocates for the extinction of Russia as a country. This Russophobic irrationality disqualifies Kallas and Europe from engaging in diplomatic processes with Russia.
The conclusion that can be drawn from Kallas’s words is that even the most irrational and Russophobic pro-Ukrainian militants in the West are beginning to admit that Russia is winning the war and has the diplomatic advantage. No matter how much the Europeans try to obstruct the peace process and boycott the negotiations, no measure will be effective in preventing the conflict from being resolved on Russian terms, since in any peace talks it is the winning side that imposes its conditions for the end of the hostilities.
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