Posted on 02/14/2023 12:35:42 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
The European Council met in Brussels on February 9 for a one day summit, which saw President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine make his first appearance in person at an EU meeting since February 2022.
It was an occasion which highlighted increasing strains in the bloc, within countries and between them, bringing the vaunted values of the EU once more into question. It was a meeting which highlighted the deepening divisions in the West over Ukraine, the economic fallout of the war policy, and of the vision of EU itself as the guarantor of a uniform, supranational managerial state.
This summit was convened to address several urgent matters of increasing concern. Firstly, the extraordinary economic pressures facing Europe following its sanctions on cheap Russian energy. Secondly, the issue of European asylum policy, which eight European countries said was “broken” in a letter to the president of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
Finally, the summit witnessed a renewed effort from Zelensky to escalate the war in Ukraine, who appeared in person to demand long range weapons granting him the power to strike deep inside Russia.
The Council ended with some predictable rhetoric – that the “European Union will stand by Ukraine with steadfast support for as long as it takes” – despite being dedicated to economic issues in part, completely ignoring the worst economic crisis in Europe since the Second World War and preferring to focus on Net-Zero goals.
The longest section covered the increasingly fraught issue of illegal – now rebranded as “irregular” – migration, to which the EU refuses to provide a definite answer to a crisis which threatens to undermine the integrity of the union itself. It was a meeting which tried its best to avoid the deepening fissures in Europe…
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When he built a fence to keep millions of Obama-Merkel migrants out of Hungary, he put the neo-Marxist target on his back.
good on Orban and Erdogon
damnation to those pushing escalation.
Amazing that all the libs who opposed every policy against the commies love the prospect of a truly big war with Russia. What happened to ‘No more war?
God bless him.
Victor just backs an alliance of Russia-Iran-China-North Korea to mass murder Christian Ukrainians and put Ukraine back into the Russian Gulag.
Atheist and Jihadist love raping and murdering Christians.
Wrong.
Meanwhile Samantha Power is going to go over there to try to start a color revolution.
And becomes the most hated man by the neocon pigs in the world.
Andrzej Duda
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Duda
He is vastly more effective and relevant, and has been much more effective as a leader of anti-woke pushback in the EU.
Of course, Putinists try to avoid the Poles.
And the one that really worries them is:
Giorgia Meloni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgia_Meloni
The most hated man?
A not very relevant man. Ignored, rather.
OTOH Duda, of Poland, is not ignored. Just as ethno-nationalist, way more credibly religious, and more effective at pushing back vs EU wokeness and the bureaucratic transnational state. And his country is 4X bigger.
If Orban is pushing back on EU wokeness and this new world order, then God bless him...Let Zelenski dance in his high heels and beg for welfare weapons to someone else. No more US tax dollars for the penis piano man.
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