Thanks to Donald Trump and other MAGA people, we are now heading into an era of neo-imperialism, where force will laugh at law.
As a united Europe, we will be respected. As individual states, we will be trampled on.
This should not skip your attention
The European Union is clearly a successful project. If we add a military component, surely we can safely navigate through the turbulent waters of international politics on its large board.
NATO has always had and has only one real task - to defend Europe from Russian aggression. For now, Ukraine is doing NATO's job and we are still thinking about how much we should help it and whether we should accept Kiev into the Alliance?
Shame on us.
We all know that Garry Kasparov is a smart guy. And at the #HFX2025 conference, he managed to come up with a brilliant speech, showing the stupidity and impotence of the West in full nakedness.
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e) The document does not take into account at all who is the aggressor and who is the victim of aggression. This fundamentally questions the current principles of international law and creates dangerous precedents for the future, threatening the interests of smaller states, such as 🇨🇿.
d) The text does not specify any security guarantees for Ukraine. The current formulas do not exceed the level of the so-called Budapest Memorandum, the ineffectiveness of which was demonstrated precisely by the current aggression of the Russian Federation.
c) The document works unsystematically with concepts such as "NATO troops", "European aircraft", etc., without taking into account that in reality these are units (systems) belonging to individual states;
b) The unprecedented situation limits NATO's ability to accept new members and denies the basic provisions of the UN Charter (e.g. Article 51);
- It seems that the White House is currently finding it difficult to point out obvious contradictions in the text, such as:
a) The first point speaks of the confirmation of Ukraine's sovereignty, but a number of other items limit this sovereignty - see points 6, 7, 21, 25, 26;
- The very fact that such a crude and one-sided document was the American side indicates a crisis in the deep analytical and management processes of the Trump administration.
- Europe, or rather the Coalition of the Willing, must now enter the negotiation process and fundamentally revise this proposal.
- The adoption of the document without further fundamental editing would mean the de facto capitulation of Ukraine and would fundamentally threaten the security interests of Europe, including the Czech Republic.
- The 28 points of President Trump's so-called "peace plan" are an internally inconsistent set of hastily formulated theses. They primarily reflect the maximalist wishes of the Kremlin, supplemented by a few ideas that are intended to suit the current White House staff.
For example, block Russian oil and gas exports, or deliver Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv.
For Putin and his so-called elite will be prepared to stop the war in Ukraine only if the further continuation of the conflict threatened their survival at the head of the Russian state.
I have one piece of advice for the American President. By all means negotiate with Putin; meet him in Alaska or in Budapest. Telephone him twice a day, if you will. But above all take measures that will truly hurt Russia and its ruling class.
But, given what we know of past Russian offers, one may reasonably suppose it was a mixture of flattery, vague promises of grand economic projects, and non-committal assurances that the Kremlin desires peace — naturally only after the causes of the war have been removed.
To be fair, I must concede that we do not know the details of the more-than-two-hour telephone conversation. We do not therefore know how Putin persuaded Mr Trump or what he promised him.
Putin responded today with a tried-and-true manoeuvre: he telephoned Mr Trump and offered him another bilateral meeting. Of course, such a meeting will have to be preceded by expert-level talks whose sole purpose, from the Russian point of view, will be to buy the Kremlin yet more time.
Meanwhile, by striking Russian oil refineries, Ukraine found a sensitive weak point in Putin’s war machine. The American pledge to supply Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv furthermore placed the Kremlin under the acute threat of very painful reprisals for Russian war crimes.
As we have all seen, the White House in the end achieved nothing at all. On the contrary, Russia gained a further two months in which to attack Ukraine, to kill soldiers and civilians alike, and to destroy Ukrainian infrastructure.
The Kremlin replied by offering a bilateral meeting between D. Trump and V. Putin. For reasons that escape my understanding the American President agreed to this and invited the Russian dictator to Alaska.
We witnessed the previous part of this sad comedy in the summer of this year, when @POTUS presented Vladimir Putin with an unequivocal ultimatum: either he agree to an immediate cessation of hostilities, or he would face brutal sanctions and fresh deliveries of American weapons to Ukraine.
I am afraid that in recent hours we have watched, in real time, yet another defeat for common sense and a victory for Russian diplomacy.
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Russia is waging an aggressive war on foreign territory in violation of the UN Charter. Every shot, every strike by an air bomb, missile or drone, every step of a Russian soldier is a violation of international law.
The Russian dictator's words are yet another confirmation of the growing self-confidence, reinforced by the West's inability to confront Russian aggression.
We must underline, that Russia has absolutely no legitimate targets in Ukraine.
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- the delivery of hundreds of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine.
- the establishment of a no-fly zone over western Ukraine and its gradual expansion.
- the deployment of Western troops on the borders of Ukraine and Belarus.
Drooling already, Mr. Putin?
I might have a modest little menu here from which the “leaders” of the free world could perhaps choose:
- the exclusion of all Russian banks from the SWIFT system.
- the blocking of the Baltic straits and the North Sea for Russian oil/gas exports.
- the seizure of Russia’s shadow fleet.
Will we express deep concern? Will we threaten really, truly tough sanctions, only to end up doing nothing that would give Putin even a single extra wrinkle?
Well, well, could it be that the Kremlin is avoiding the meeting it promised? Could it be, for about the 127th time, that it’s making a mockery of Trump and the entire West? And what about us?
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Continuing to deliver the same ritualistic speeches about sanctions—which, while unpleasant for the Kremlin, it can simply work around—is not a sign of great intelligence. Quite the opposite.
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”