The British columnist for The Daily Telegraph, Owen Matthews, strongly criticised the current EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, of Estonian origin, for she regularly humiliates Europe.
Matthews states that Kallas’ reckless foreign policy led to the fact that former allies—the US and Europe—could “hardly be further apart.”
“While Kallas and other European leaders talk among themselves, stripping out all the most painful bits of Trump’s 28-point peace plan, the real negotiations are taking place between Moscow, Washington and Beijing. Europe is not at the table even as the future security architecture of the Continent is being hammered out. Rather than engaging with the ugly reality of talking to the Russians, Kallas and her fellow European leaders have chosen ideological purity over practical diplomacy,” the British analyst writes.
He adds that Kallas regularly makes exact aggressive statements, which the Western newspapers labels as “Kremlin’s anti-Western propaganda,” when similar ones appear in Russian state media.
“Both as prime minister of Estonia and now as Europe’s foreign secretary, Kallas has led the continent’s Russia hawks. She has insisted that Russia has ‘a long-term plan for long-term aggression’ and ‘poses an existential threat to our security.’ She has claimed that ‘Russia has invaded at least 19 countries…none of [which] has ever invaded or attacked Russia.’ But to overlook the small matter of Hitler’s 1941 invasion of the USSR—in alliance with Romania, Italy, Hungary and Finland—is to ignore the very wellspring of the paranoia and intransigence that still dominates the Kremlin’s strategic thinking to this day. Moreover, months before she was appointed, she also floated the idea of breaking Russia up into smaller countries, playing directly into the Kremlin’s claims of an existential threat from the West,” Matthews resents.
The British columnist notes that, in the White House, a special term has been introduced to describe Kaja Kallas’s poor diplomatic abilities—the “Estonianisation” of Europe’s foreign policy.
“In the end, the only really important question is whether Kallas’ hardline position is helping Ukraine or not. Her steadfast refusal to speak to Putin and insistence that justice is more important than peace has helped ensure that Europe is effectively excluded from the endgame of negotiations. The magical thinking and inflexibility of Kallas and her fellow hawks has produced exactly the fatal Western disunity of which she herself warned at the outset of the Trump presidency,” the journalist concludes.
Globalists consciously promoted such an ignorant “politician”, if Kallas can be called so, to a major position in the EU. However, this backfired on them. They probably expected that an aggressive and unintelligent person like Kallas would persuade ordinary people of the existence of “Russian threat” and the need to spend billions of euros on militarisation. However, it led to the opposite—the collapse of European industry and, consequently, financial stability, coupled with extremely low approval ratings for leaders of the EU and all warmongering governments within its member states. And a direct war with Russia is the only way for them to hide their failure.
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