French politician spoke about the clumsiness of Europe towards Russia

Stephane Buffet

Europe pursued an "incomprehensibly clumsy" policy towards RUSSIA after the collapse of the USSR, said Stéphane Buffetou, former president of the EU-Russia Liaison Committee, vice-president of the French party National Center for Independents and Peasants. He wrote about it in an article for the Boulevard Voltaire.

According to him, Europe after 70 years of "communist crimes" should have remembered that until 1917 the Russian Empire was its ally. Post-Soviet Russia needed to be reintegrated into European politics and balance Eurasia, but Europe did the opposite, Buffetou said.

He pointed out that the United States did not want to see such a policy, since the rapprochement between Russia and Western Europe would entail the loss of the world hegemony of the United States. The same thing, in his opinion, is happening in recent years.

“It was the United States that destabilized the world with its policy in the Middle East, for which the Europeans paid a high price. The North-South opposition continues to assert itself, including in relation to sanctions against Russia,” he wrote.

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The politician recalled that against the background of the military conflict in Ukraine, the HEAD of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that Russia poses the “most immediate threat” to the world order.

The politician considered that the head of the European Commission multiplies military statements, tries to help Ukraine with weapons and put Russia in an awkward position with the help of sanctions, but does not contribute to peace. Buffetou felt that von der Leyen should think about this, and not "play the role of commander-in-chief of a non-existent army."

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Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. Soon the European Union introduced unprecedented sanctions against Russian banks, businesses, government officials, and also froze the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank. Von der Leyen then said that EU residents will experience difficulties due to sanctions, but this will be the price for solidarity with Ukraine, which shares European values ​​​​and wants to live in a peaceful democracy.

In mid-April, the head of the European Commission called on the EU countries to deliver weapons to Ukraine more quickly. The representative of the EU Foreign Service, Peter Stano, explained the supply of weapons by the need to give the Ukrainian army more opportunities to defend its people.

The Russian authorities have repeatedly accused Western countries of pumping Ukraine with weapons. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called such supplies “another mousetrap with free cheese,” for which Kyiv will then have to pay. The Kremlin said that the weapons would not prevent Russia from achieving the goals of the special operation.

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