British Foreign Ministry officials are once again railing at Russia over the still-holding Ukraine ceasefire, and claim the EU is “united” in a plan to impose new sanctions on Russia.
The EU is less than enthusiastic about this push, however, and as foreign ministers meet in Latvia to talk about the situation in Ukraine, several nations, including Germany, are pushing against new sanctions.
German FM Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he believes the EU’s efforts on the situation in Ukraine should be centered around enforcing and strengthening the current ceasefire.
That’s an unsurprising split, as Germany and France led the efforts to get the ceasefire in place, while British officials were expressing opposition to the talks in the first place, and looking to escalate the sanctions.
Germany is increasingly disquiet over this situation, saying they’re not only averse to the new sanctions push but are “alarmed” by NATO’s increasingly aggressive military stance on Ukraine. They were particularly critical of US General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s “Supreme Commander” for Europe, calling him a “super hawk” whose efforts are centered on pushing NATO’s European members to back US bellicosity.
The person who decided to have the conference between Germany, France and Russia at Munich must have had a sense of humour. Since the Brits got so much flak over the last Munich conference, it's not surprising that they're a little sensitive about another one. Of course, you can reasonably argue that Munich didn't start WW2, it was Britain and France's declaration of war on one of the two allies who invaded Poland. Perhaps if they'd relaxed and waited, Germany and Russia would have decided to go for each other rather than fighting the UK and France. The problem here, of course, was that in the event of a Russo-German war, there was a very grave danger that either Russia or Germany would win, thus resulting in a Great Russian or a German National Socialist empire that stretched from the Rhine to Vladivostok. To avoid this possibility, Britain and France would have had to declare war on, and defeat, both Russia and Germany. Quite correctly, they realised they could not do this, so they refrained. Their error was in believing that they could defeat just one of the allies, Germany, since it was receiving only minimal support from its Russian ally. Since the relative power of the UK and France is much less than when they challenged Germany in 1939, I believe they would be wise not to attempt to challenge Russia. This was only possible after WW2 with the assistance of the US. Since the US has become bored with challenging Russia, and is determined to waste its strength in pointless wars in the Middle East, we must accept that the Russian project for the Finlandisation of Europe, that seemed to have come to an end with the partial collapse of the Russian Empire, will now come to fruition.
Who said there were no parallels between Putin and Hitler!
Probably not you.
Time for Continental EU to tell Britain and the U.S. to go screw yourselves. Both are troublemakers and the cause of these problems.
This is the way the EU works. Britain and France are offering Putin a way out of the corner he's painted himself into. Britain remind him of what's waiting for him down the road if he doesn't bakc off and the US reminds him of what's waiting for him if sanctions don't persuade him. It all looks very well co-ordinated and a "split" is just neocon wishful thinking.
> Neocon
You keep using that word. I don't it means what you think it means.
> It all looks very well co-ordinated
Just LOL
Putin "in a corner"? On the contrary; who is wetting their pants about the current cease fire? The fearsome-foursome; McCain; OB; Cameron; Senator "whatever" from S.C.; and the military- industrial crowd.
You have to understand that Mr. Kenny is sort of like Vladimir Putin's anti-Baghdad-Bob. If Putin marched into Washington at the head of the Russian army, burned the White House and Capitol, and had the heads of the President, Vice-President, Cabinet, US Senate and US House of Representatives mounted on pikes and carried across the country to show who was boss, Kenny would tell us it was obvious that he was in full retreat.
"Berlin sources also say that it has become conspicuous that Breedlove's controversial statements are often made just as a step forward has been made in the difficult negotiations aimed at a political resolution. Berlin sources say that Germany should be able to depend on its allies to support its efforts at peace."
Looks like Europe has become another discardable element in Washington's game of thrones.
Glad the corrupt eurocrats are starting to grow some neurons. The English, they're a lost cause. Some type of natural event should push a part of that island a couple thousand miles to the west.
This is the stupidity of our Empire builders, for they really think that by their wit and cunning they can get Western Europe to willingly allow NATO to turn their lands into a bloodbath.
Problem is, Germany remembers how USA used the Marshall Plan after World War Two to primarily hold Germany back from becoming an economical powerhouse in competition with the American economy.
Cameron is the dog of Obama.The reason is the new US imperialism.We see it in international business..In a recent Brussels press conference about Ukraine ,a journalist asked to EEC representative (Polish with an happy face about sanctions) on which legal basis and on which criteria people where put on the list.The happy face of the EEC representative diseapered and he started to say something not very clear because there are no legal criteria about it. Pure invention.Recently british governement asked british investors to find another investor than Alpha group of russian M.Friedman " because he could maybe be sanctionned". It is pure imperialist fantasy of British governement because Mr.Friedman does participate in politics.It become dangerous when governements start to dictate with who you can do or not business.Is it not what they reproach to Putin about Khodorkovski ?
After WW2 British were the most active to give back soviet prisoners to Stalin .They knew that these guy will finish in a goulag because the famous order of Stalin : Not surrender to Nazis, the last bullet for yourselves. Russians do not forger that England did refuse to invite the Tsar Nicolas 2 after soviet revolution.So historically England for an unknown reason was always agressively anti russian.Now we see an agressive Cameron comparing Putin to Hitler.Maybe he don't know that Putin lost one brother during the blocade of Leningrad ? He has right to dislike Putin but the rethoric of Cameron is incompatible with a gentleman that he pretent to be.Maybe he should have a look on the Valday conference (translated on Youtube) understand that the unipolar world is vanishing and stop to eat in the hand of Obama ?