Why the EU is such a Pathetic Joke?
Why the EU is such a Pathetic Joke?
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Per Wikipedia: “Peace means societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups.”
However, unlike the common understanding of peace by most human beings, the EU has its own definition.
Read this: “EU joint procurement of ammunition and missiles for Ukraine: Council agrees €1 billion support under the European Peace Facility
The Council today adopted an assistance measure worth €1 billion under the European Peace Facility (EPF) that will further contribute to strengthening the capabilities and resilience of Ukraine to defend its independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity, and protect the civilian population against the ongoing Russian military aggression.
The assistance measure will finance the provision to the Ukrainian Armed Forces of 155-mm-caliber artillery rounds and, if requested, missiles which will be jointly procured by EU member states from the European defense industry.” - https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/05/05/eu-joint-procurement-of-ammunition-and-missiles-for-ukraine-council-agrees-1-billion-support-under-the-european-peace-facility/
In truly Orwellian Doublespeak, Europeans are clapping as their leaders use a Peace Facility to buy weapons to fund an unwinnable war in Nazi-Banderite-infested Ukraine!
And then we have the genius in Advanced Diplomatic Studies, EU Foreign Policy Chief, Josep Borrell, saying:
“The weaponry that we are providing to Ukraine has to have full use, and the restrictions have to be lifted in order for the Ukrainians to be able to target the places where Russia is bombing them,” Borrell told reporters. Otherwise, the weaponry is useless.” - https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/29/eus-borrell-urges-ukraine-backers-to-lift-curbs-on-arms-use-inside-russia
Meanwhile, the insufferable sanctimonious hypocrites in Europe, whose governments continue to curate and support the genocide by the settlers they planted in Palestine, bayed for the arrest of President Putin by the discredited ICC kangaroo court they set up.
Listen to them: “President Putin is under an arrest warrant by the ICC for international crimes, specifically alleged crimes of unlawful deportation and unlawful transfer of children,” the EU said in a statement on Tuesday.
“The EU regrets that Mongolia, a State Party to the Rome Statute of the ICC, did not comply with its obligations under the statute to execute the arrest warrant,” the bloc added.” - https://www.rt.com/news/603464-eu-mongolia-putin-arrest/
Can Europeans really not appreciate how sickening their hypocrisy is viewed by normal human beings?
Then we have pathetic enthusiastic chihuahuas like the Poles who, hiding behind Big Brother America, continue to yap at the Russians until they were promptly slapped down and put in their place by their American Overlords. Here: “NATO does not want to become directly involved in a conflict with Moscow, the US-led bloc's spokesperson said on Monday, addressing demands from Ukraine and statements by Poland’s foreign minister.
[Polish FM Radek Sikorski]
“Kiev has repeatedly asked its Western backers to shoot down Russian missiles and drones in its airspace, as its own air defenses became degraded. A security pact to that effect was signed with Warsaw in July.
“NATO is not a party to the conflict and will not become a party to it,” a spokesperson for the bloc told the Spanish news agency Europa Press, adding that the bloc’s responsibility is to “prevent escalation.”
While each member of the bloc has the right to protect their own airspace, they should “closely consult” with others when doing so “can affect NATO as a whole,” the spokesperson said.
Their comments followed an interview by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski to Financial Times, in which he endorsed the idea of shooting down Russian targets in the sky over Ukraine.
“When hostile missiles are on course of entering our airspace, it would be legitimate self-defense, because once they do cross into our airspace, the risk of debris injuring someone is significant. “Membership in NATO does not trump each country’s responsibility for the protection of its own airspace — it’s our own constitutional duty,” Sikorski explained.” - https://www.rt.com/news/603398-poland-duty-down-russian-missiles/
Not to be outdone, the postage-stamp-size kingdom of the Netherlands is always waxing enthusiastic about military support for the Empire. Forgetting that their puny (40,000 or so) military force will fail to register on any serious military radar, Dutch officials, bemedalled and all, recently yelped about allowing Ukraine to strike deep in Russia: “One of Ukraine's key allies has said that the country may use its fighter jets "as it wishes" on strikes inside Russia, reflecting a more relaxed stance on how Kyiv employs Western-supplied weaponry.
[Dutch Chief of Defence Onno Eichelsheim]
Permission to use Western weapons on Russian soil has become a key point of contention between Ukraine and its allies, with Kyiv claiming this could turn the tide in the conflict. The statements from the Dutch top brass indicate that Ukraine's other allies may soon follow suit, loosening restrictions on its activities deeper within Russia.
"We have not placed any restrictions on the use and range of the F-16, provided that the laws of war are adhered to," Netherlands' Chief of Defence Onno Eichelsheim told Dutch outlet NOS in remarks published on Thursday.
"Ukraine can use the resources we provide as it wishes, provided that it is adhered to the humanitarian law of war," the general added.
The Netherlands has been a generous provider of materiel for Ukraine's war effort, so far pledging 24 of the American-made F-16s to Kyiv, though Eichelsheim did not confirm how many of these had been delivered to the frontlines.
Speaking to NOS during a visit to D.C., Eichelsheim said that the U.S. partly shared his country's position on Ukrainian use of Western weaponry, despite Washington maintaining a stricter public stance on this matter.
"They have different restrictions, but they have also supplied different weapon systems," Eichelsheim said. "In any case, we have the same line to ensure that Ukraine wins the war. I think we're putting all the effort into making that happen." - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/netherlands-says-ukraine-can-use-its-f-16s-to-strike-russian-territory/ar-AA1pFRAB
Luckily, there appear to be some Europeans who refuse to take flight from rationality or reality.
Like this sane voice:
“Zelensky is leading to an escalation of the war. The next step is to allow Zelensky to attack Russian depth targets. OK, but what will be the response? Russian strikes on deep targets in Ukraine. There could be a lot of targets. I don't want to give Putin advice, nor does he need it, but this war is escalating now. What will be the next Ukrainian target? Attack nuclear power plants that are in Russian hands? That would have catastrophic consequences. Zelensky's position is that no matter what happens, the West will give money, and weapons, and the war will continue until they liberate Donbass. But that's not going to happen. And supposedly until Crimea is Ukrainian. But this has not the slightest relation to reality.” - György Nogradi, Hungarian economist.
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