Benjamin Tallis - Estonian PM Kallas and 'Russia Hawk' Set to be EU's Next Top Diplomat
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- Опубликовано: 26 июн 2024
- Dr Benjamin Tallis is a research fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations. He runs the project “Action Group Zeitenwende” on the transformation of Germany’s security and foreign policy, and where he hosts the podcast "Berlin Inside Out". He previously worked for the EU on security missions in Ukraine and the Balkans and was policy officer at the European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management in Berlin.
Benjamin spent five years at the Institute of International Relations Prague where he headed the Centre for European Security, advised numerous European governments, edited the journal New Perspectives. Benjamin regularly appears in the media, and has been published in Foreign Policy, Politico, The Independent, and in leading academic journals. He is the author of the books To Ukraine with Love: Essays on Russia’s War and Europe’s Future (2022) and Identities, Borderscapes, Orders: (In)Security, (Im)Mobility, and Crisis in the EU and Ukraine (2023).
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Kaja ❤ our amazing PM. Greetings from Estonia 🇪🇪 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
Yes Kallas is amazing, especially from the perspective of US where we have weak candidates. Slava Ukraini
1st time listening to Mr Tallis.
Excellent Guest always good to hear a sane long term perspective they seem to be in short sipply.
Realism is cynicism dressed up in an academic theory.
Can you elaborate? Is there something wrong with being a realist? The way the term is being used in this discussion is a misrepresentation of the term "realist" in the same way terms like "racist" and "sexist" are misused.
@@toby9999Sometimes a realist is just a guy with more intellectual inertia than another.
@@toby9999The realists said Britain should make peace with Hitler, allowing Hitler free rein to murder every human his twisted ideology said did not have the right to life.
I wish we'd had more public intellectuals like Tallis in Europe. Thanks for the interview.
Terve
watch out Poland's FM Radek Sikorski and his latest UN speech. It was epic.
ruclips.net/video/0RNy4gyAa6w/видео.html He left Rusians speechless.
We need to get over this notion that Ms. Kallas is "hawkish." To my mind, she is sober and measured.
When the people accusing those like her of being "hawkish" refuse to get their own heads out of the sand, one cannot but question the value of their opinions.
Great work, Jonathan!! Your guests are tremendous 🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸
Thank you. Mr Tallis, Great guest! Right-on, knowledgeable, articulate.
Your speakers are indeed excellent. Top notch.
Thank you, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Another excellent episode - you've really been on fire this week!
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Brilliant and insightful 👍
Thank you Jonathan and your interesting guests for the vital message the world needs to wake up to.
wake up to what?
Dr. Tallis certainly ate his Wheaties today! Really great to see European leadership showing strength! We in the USA are in a world of political hurt 😖
Excellent episode Jonathan! ❤🫖 🥃 🇺🇦🌾🌾🌻
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Once again you were able to surprise me. Very interesting interview. Especially, as Tallis could provide that extra context which is ignored so often. Thanks
Fabulous interview!
Incredible competence.
Truly amazing.
Thanks again
Going to Ukraine as a tourist very very soon. That will be my contribution I guess.🤔
Invigorating talk,Bens correct let's get the core of our democracies sorted, if we have that right perhaps the enemy wouldn't have been able to manifest itself in such an audacious, frightening and threatening way in the first place along with its propaganda and useful idiots in place.Thanks SC
I’ve not run across your guest before: very clear and concise at articulating my own fuzzy understandings (which you do as well!). Tnx.
Nine and a half minutes in and I'm already liking what I hear.
Finns were more optimistic about Russia than Estonians, a fellow Finnic nation, and the Balts, but it didn't take long after the beginning of the full-scale invasion for us to fall in line with our neighbors. Today, we're closer than ever.
It's not fair to pick on them for being small. They had half a century of growth and development stolen from them. This is a great injustice but they overcame it. These are highly resilient societies. The torch of freedom and democracy burns bright there.
I also think that if Finland wasn't as well-governed as it is, it wouldn't exist today either. It would be a backwater oblast of the Russian Federation. So I feel what he's saying.
On the topic of neutrality. It only works if your neighbors respect it. Russia obviously doesn't. This is not just about Ukraine, although it's hugely important. Finland has been getting ultimatums as well. We don't accept Moscow challenging our sovereignty.
Again, the frontline states are small but far more successful than Russia, and we are not wavering. You can count on that.
Thanks for the kind words from Latvia. We still have a lot in common and many organisational connections with Finland (ex.g. my friends are intermarried, share businesses and churches have common missions on both coasts). We haven't fully yet overcome handicaps (especially economic and geopolitic) left by USSR "heritage" in Baltics, but are on the way. We just managed to reach boom when financial world went bust in 2008, then again in 2019, but now it's not the most important thing anymore. Our unity with the rest of democracies and wits weigh more than fast prosperity right now, especially around the Baltic sea. Nothing brings neighbours togeather than a common threat. Sköl and keep supporting Ukraine on all levels, and consider we might need to have our guys on the line someday.✌
But how should it help
Estonian population is around 1.4 million with even 20+% Russian
Even the 50th biggest city in China is at least twice in size
We cannot build European prosperity based on Soviet grief
@@dannydetonator I've been to Latvia many times since the 1990s and I have seen with my own two eyes how far you've come. You'll get there, I'm sure. You're on the right track 👍
@@goenzoy712 There are several obscenely rich microstates in Europe. Take Luxembourg for example. Estonia is not a microstate. It's bigger in terms of the population, and far bigger in terms of innovation and international influence.
There are approximately 30 surviving Finno-Ugric nations in the Russian Federation. All are critically endangered. The Vepsians will go extinct next.
I worry about the indigenous nations of Russia. I do not worry about independent Ests. They will survive, and once Russia completes its project of self-immolation, they will thrive.
@@henriikkak2091 As a European I cannot disagree more and I also know at least a bit about Finno-Ugric nations . Komi to be precise.But my point was that EU will not drive with Estonia and Ukraine .They are just the receiving end for EU money tree and any form of self-destruction is not the basis for a prosperous Europe
I loved every moment of this interview. Congratulations, Jon, for doing it again. I can't get enough of Benjamin Tallis! Jan Lipavsky, FM for Czech Republic, is someone who should have a much bigger audience The larger, more influential traditional news, are misleading in the omission of people just as much as by publishing false or misinformative news. Lipavsky has been fantastic on every point. I hope he comes PM someday. His appointment almost didn't happen because former president Zeman was opposed to him. The Zeman/Babis politics were as bad as a Trump led USA. I'm a US citizen who follows Czech politics more closely that US politics. Petr Pavel could have been the NATO leader, however, having been president of Czechis for a year, it is best that he make his mark there and become better known in the world. As it is I am pleased with Rutte but ecstatic about Kallis.
Thank you, Jonathan and Benjamin Tallis, for this very thorough conversation. I wish, European leaders and citizens would listen to this channel to better understand our world and to hear the voices who know what they are talking about. Then we would have more politicians like Kaja Kallas or Gabrielius Landsbergis and a better educated population who is aware of the dangers of current populism and demagoguery. Thank you, Jonathan, for your hard work!
🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
Jonathan, all your ideas are so fun to listen to.
It's a massive pleasure indeed to listen to Benjamin. Thank you, Jonathan!
Thank you, Jonathan and Benjamin.
Great talking not for Ukraine only.
Support from Indonesia.
That was really good, thank you.
After the despair-inducing Trump-Biden fiasco I really yearned for some reason for hope, and Mr. Tallis pointed out where it shines: in Eastern Europe.
If anyone can guide us out of this dog's breakfast, they can, and finally, the world is listening.
One of my favorite episodes yet of a stellar program.
Thanks Jonathan 😊
Thanks for the video and congrats to Kallas, a clear sighted leader who understands the language of bullies and that you can't afford to be soft with them.
Good talk, interesting questions as well as answers. Thanxalot.
When it comes to Germany and it's sometimes lackadaisical performance when it comes to issues including possible military conflict, warfare and weapons, one ought to consider it''s military past.
Selling weapons is kind of OK, but don't mention it, using weapons on the other hand is definitely anathema.
I, for one, do have some understanding for Germany's predicament.
It wasn't that long ago from my perspective, and I'm only 40 years old, that Europe was wary of *allowing* the two Germanys to reunite.
Then, bang! There's a major war in Europe and everyone's like, where's Germany? What happened? Why is it not a major military power?
Well, history happened. Sometimes I feel as if people have the memory of a goldfish.
Germany is weak by design. It is moving but such fundamental changes take time. Just building military strength back up can take decades. Psychological change, an indeterminate amount of time.
Germany is the biggest donor to Ukraine when it comes to non-lethal aid. That's often forgotten.
Ukraine was demilitarized by Western powers, the USA, the UK, and France. I'm not getting into whether that was smart or not but bolstering Russia was a mistake.
Excellent discussion - thank you, gentlemen! I concur, Mr. Landsbergis has become my latest hero ... (Ms. Kallas has long been a NAFO favourite). Slava Ukraini from Canada!
The exposition on "realism" is very interesting.
Iceland was the first country to recognize *Estonia* The first country* to recognise Lithuania was actually Moldova, which is even more surprising considering it was at that time still the Moldovan SSR, and part of the USSR.
This is such a wonderful talk. Thank you. Inspiring and challenging in a good way
What an excellent analysis of the dark heart of so-called academic "realism" from Benjamin Tallis.
very best clearest interviews and perspectives I’ve seen coming from anyone in Europe
Great conversation and useful to me. Keep doing this!
Just to add to what Dr. Tallis sad about "Realists", I think it was Sir James Sherr who called them "Ahistorical" charlatans and that there was nothing "realist" about them at all. I would further add to that, great men like Sir James, or Keir Giles, these are the real realists. Actually real and really actual in their take on the situation here. Unlike Mearsheimer, Charap, et. al.
Great report Ben is unique in dynamic scope and skill.
"You guys are AWESOME!"... cooking listening
Great podcast. Wish some of the squirming politicians also shared these strong views of standing up to the bullies of the world
Impressive session, thanks 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇩🇰
Very interesting and clarifies strategy for the future. Another great interview!
Poland's FM said at one point to Russia "Do not threat us with your nukes more often than once in 6 months because it is getting boring".
“To keep the Americans in, the Germans down and the Russians out.” You forgot the part that so many now rue.
Good 👍
18:39 Kellas is a Warrior in the finest sense of the word..
Barking Chihuahua who counts on you to save her of she gets bitten
@@user-jp4lt7xu2g aah a Kremlin 🤡 no doubt vodka o'clock in Putlers back yard..
@@user-jp4lt7xu2g You think putlers a strong man because he kills his political opposition im guessing...🤡
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You're not up to scratch to work for an anglophone trollfarm😜
@@user-jp4lt7xu2g She knows Russia better than most ingorants ever will.
The crying UKRAINIANS
WROTE THIS 8th March..2022
UKRAINE 1.0
Sorry my dear Ukraine. I am crying tears.....
Dear humanitarians, we are living in a dangerous world, and it is time for rational people to see what really is going on in Ukraine. I am fully aware of the humanitarian disaster going on there. I have lived in Kiev and Odessa and have close friends there.
It is astonishing listening to main stream media in Europe and US. Everyone seems to have forgotten or don’t want to understand the background for this war:
No fulfilments of Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 agreement, EU and US early promises not to expand Eastwards towards the disintegrated Soviet Union, Russia’s right to claim their military security area ( compare the Cuba crisis in 1962), Putin’s continuously warnings for the last 9 years to US, Europe and to the rest of the world that Ukraine is the point of no return regarding NATOs expansion Eastward.
All parties now behave like lemmings running over the cliff. Glady forgetting all the horrible unprovoked wars US has started the last 15 years… without sanctions: War in Afghanistan , Yemen Iraq War, War in North-West Pakistan, Somali Civil War, Operation Ocean Shield, Libya, Operation Observant Compass Uganda, intervention in Iraq, intervention in Syria, American intervention in Libya.
If we have had common sense and seen the reality as it now happens to be. We should not have encouraged the Ukrainians to commit collective suicide, by giving them more arms. All talk about heroism is complete madness and can only be articulated by people without common sense. There is no return to normal. Russia is committed to demilitarize Ukraine as above, we like it or not. If I have been Ursula von der Leyen I should have taken the first plane to Ukraine an told Mr. Volodymyr Oleksandrovytj Zelenskyj to surrender as quick as possible. Hundted of thousands of people and infrastructure are now at stake.... totally in in vain. Mr. Zelenskyj don't understand, maybe now, that he has been fooled on all levels.
There is only one winner here…the US:
1. as NATO now has been a necessity all over Europe as each country now is prepared to pay US for deploying US strategic weapons on their respective territory, pointing Eastward.
2. US has at last been able to distance Germany from Russia
3. US can now sell expensive gas, oil and weapons to Europe.
4. The whole world is no crying for more sanctions that can be a double sword.
To sum up: the big losers are the Ukraine people. They were told lays from day one when US promised NATO membership and EU promised EU membership by EU Ursula von der Leyen. Nothing vill be implemented … but they believed that ….
Sorry my dear Ukraine. I am crying tears. You are just a little brick in the big game, but no one dear to tell you.
NATO Expansion: What Gorbachev Heard
nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2017-12-12/nato-expansion-what-gorbachev-heard-western-leaders-early#.Yieei7wOaUw.mailto
Cuba : ruclips.net/video/1UbVuTXg4CQ/видео.html
UKRAINE 2.0
It seems more and more clear that the collective west has only ONE goal in mind GO ALL IN FOR REGIME CHANGE I Russia. And it is complete obvious that all ”Ukraine singers” do not understand what is happening in front of their eyes. We behave as I earlier wrote : ”All are now behaveing like lemmings running over the cliff. Totaly driven by feelings and emotions” totaly unaware of the shetader politics orchestrated by the world leading politicians.
I urge all to take a deep dive in to this matter an see and understand the forces behind this war. It seems obvious that the globalists want to prolong this war for so long as it will take to strangle the Russian bear, and this cost is played for by Ukraine lifes …not by high politicians and absolutely not by the ”Ukraine singers” that we can see everyday on all sort of msm.
Statement: I am not a fan of Putin, but I am glad I still can think.
UKRAINE 3.0 and the energi Crisses
Trying to be objective and be logical on this matter will most probably label you as a ”Russin troll”.
As today the Collective West has put sanctions on almost everything coming from Russia. All EU leaders has jointly and blindly agreed to follow the commands from Ursula von der Leyen.
The EU and US accuses Russia to use their oil and gas as a political weapon. But as we all well know it is the sanctions that has created this chaotic and dangerous situation. Slowly, slowly each individual country now realises the complete disaster for the EU industries and the lack of gas to heat homes do to the shortage of oil/gas.
It would be proper to look back to the history after ww2…
The EU's prosperity and especialy Germany's progress after ww2 are mainly built on the CHEEP energy provided by Russia. There has never been any complaints from the EU leaders about this.
This war is the endgame for the collective west….either the collective east stands against the political attack or we are trapped in America's sick mentality
💛💙💜💙💛 thanks, Jonathan! 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🌏 🇺🇸
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One day there'll be a very interesting book about Von derLeyen's process since 2/24/22. 🤔🧐
Hollywood finally has some meat to chew on!! 🇺🇦
Danke!
Everything he said Is true at every level everywhere , always Threats looms in the Shadows AND attacks whithout warning .
Excellent
Patrick Porter, a Birmingham University academic, is the latest of British theorists trying to peddle this appeasement 'neutrality'!
Wow. two years ago I realised that all the huge amounts of money spent of very expensive advanced technology weapons by the USA and others was actually useless because nobody wanted to risk losing it in an actual fight. Finally I hear somebody other than me saying it.
Congratulations?! No calls for peace ir negotiations?! That deserves congratulations?! Unbelievable!
14:05 This idea has been expressed centuries ago: «Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill...» ©
yes - right this is exactly what always gets forgotten with this argument against the EU - it would COST too much.
I actual fact the EU budget for around 450 mn citizens is about as much as the budget of Belgium with 11 mn citizens.
Per taxpayer a dutch taxpayer pays most for the EU, followed by France and Germany.
But even a dutch taxpayer could with what he in average pays for the EU PER YEAR not be able to balance the fix costs (insurance, downpayment, taxes) of an Skoda Octavia - PER MONTH! And running costs come on top pf that.
In return every European citizen gets from the EU as THE TOP BENEFIT this additional net of checks and balances on policies done for him.
It was the EU that made for Poland a democratic restart and re-integration into the world of liberal values possible.
It is the EU that keeps Hungary somewhat worth to have hopes for.
It is the EU that prevents a competition to the bottom in exploitation of labour and environment.
It is the EU that allows European economies to prevail in global competition about trade standards.
And it is the integration into the European Union, that in teamwork allows capable leaders to pull failing ones with them.
BUT!
Is the conclusion of ALL he said so eloquently not to RIGHT NOW think through things properly, towards the real end and without further delay?
And does that not mean to think that worthwhile defense of freedom GLOBALLY among likeminded?
Don't we see with the Ramstein 50+ group, that the attack on Ukraine is already seen empathically by more than 50 states as an attack on ALL that share values of freedom and rule of law?
Would there among most of the not-NATO members of the Ramstein-50+ group be plenty of countries with potential to boost and lead?
That global NATO, then without the "N" and the "O" would be the only way to safely display a convincing deterrence without any single member dropping out.
It would level burdens and power dynamics, make everyone think a second time before dropping out and best back up US for its pacific endeavors.
It would be the security pillar UN-SC urgently needs.
And its economic endurance would be safely not to match from anybody.
Even Putin, even RuZZia, would get the maths, that THEIR NATO-alternative with NorthKorea and Iran just wouldn't make any sense any longer.
And as that Lithuanian Taiwanese-embassy example proofed:
China would bark around fierce-fully about that - but accept the reality as even be the best one for itself.
Really wish, Ben Tillis would think about that and promote it.
It are the GREAT visions that bring people together.
What greater one can there be, than standing for freedom all together all around the world.
15:39 Dr. Tallis quoting Winston Churchill, An an appeaser is the one who hopes the crocodile is going to eat him last.
Nigel Fromage stinks 😂
Lithuanian president, who is (edit: appears) very pro-Ukrainian, appears to be strictly against Landsbergis in European Commission, unfortunately. It's not set in stone, but he's pushing out many signals he won't support Landsbergis' candidature. Nausėda is, in essence, a populist that is largely supported by the so called left (even if, in Lithuania, the so called left is often actually quite conservative, while the so called conservatives that are led by Landsbergis actually traditionally align with liberals and remind of American Democrats), eurosceptics, nationalists, and all sorts of low political IQ voters who wholeheartedly, and usually completely irrationally, despise the party headed by Landsbergis. Therefore, Nausėda is doing his best to make the current Government look as bad as possible and its leaders - unelectable in the run-up to the Parliamentary elections in October.
Populism is a virus, so no surprise there. Thankfully presidents in republics got more ceremonial purpose, so has no ultimate authority. Please vote for politicians wise and selfless enough to put unity and common needs above populist point scoring, if you can find them.
PM Kallas is a real LEADER. It's past time for European countries to put boots on the ground in Ukraine.
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@@tahteluik9881 Orc?
We hear a lot about the fears around Trump but if Starmer gets in just watch what happens there. Labour have already announced they won’t supply arms to Israel if they get in. I see it as worrying not comforting. There could be a real affect in Europe and Ukraine
yes sir
The Estonia 🇪🇪 leader is a real leader really like her
Add Radek Sikorski, Poland's FM to your list
He and his wife Anne Applebaum are titans! Love them both.
🇦🇺💙💛✌ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini!
Героям слава🔱
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I can’t go for that realism. It’s awful. It’s not really real realism. Fight back if you don’t want to be kicked in the stomach or worse
I can’t believe the idiocy that led to UK Brexit. Led vigorously by people like Farage. But it’s done. Maybe?
I wonder how, having all this intellectual people that really understand what is at the stake with this war, we have the most incompetent idiots governing our countries. It is really frustrating
"Let us begin with this evident fact: Muscovy does not belong at all to Europe, but to Asia. It follows that judging Muscovy and the Muscovites by our European standards is a mistake to be avoided."-gonzague de reynold, 19501 In methodological terms, one should de-Europeanise any analysis of Muscovy policy.- thomas gomart, 20062 "
Late Polish president said back in 2008 standing n front of Tibilisi crowd "Today Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine, the day after that Baltic States or even my country of Poland". Nobody listened. Poles heard "you are oversensitive and russophobic". Well. Poles are russoexperienced.
At the end of next week, Kaja Kallas will close the door of the Stenbock house after her. Estonia's worst prime minister of all time is leaving, whose 3+ years of rule will be remembered by constant economic recession, terrible inflation and endless tax increases. According to Eurostat, Estonia has fallen to the last place in Europe in terms of purchasing power. At the same time, we are at the forefront of Europe in terms of price. The fact that our average salary increases with the support of a hugely over-gilded bureaucracy does not contribute to the impoverishment of the masses, which is clearly shown by Eurostat studies.
The decline continues. And this on all levels - economic, demographic, spiritual, moral. Green madness, perversions, growth of bureaucracy, etc. will not disappear anywhere. New tax increases are coming, inflation is galloping ahead and the economy continues to decline. Under the leadership of the Kaja Kallas government, we have fallen back to 10 years ago in terms of development. In the history books, the period 2021 - 2026 will definitely be called the Great Depression and Stagnation period in Estonian terms.
Just go look at the nato 1991 “The Alliance’s New Strategic Concept.” Scratch all that, and go back to old one and the way it acted. Everything will be ok.
Kaja is an amazing PM. Can we borrow her to run for US president while we're at it?
No, she is not! She drove Estonia into the bad crisis. Do not know more hated politician in Estonia! Only hatred and keen to the war, not a word about PEACE!
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If there would have been competent leaders in EU, there wouldn't have been this war. Minsk agreements would be have been followed and security concerns of Russia would have been taken seriously. But Washington wanted this war, not peaceful solution. It seems that you in this channel don't know what this war is about and why it broke out. I recommend to educate youselves a bit about world: ruclips.net/video/JS-3QssVPeg/видео.htmlsi=GizB9_zTbNcI3T7t
Russia is in wright side of history! Baltic states making huge mistake by warmongering!
Investments in military preparedness / deterrence is not warmongering.
Look at what russia has brought us to again!
If I could vote for him in Europe, I would.
If Europe needs to go beyond NATO, Britain should rejoin the EU, togheter with Ukraine.
Brilliant!!! 🇺🇦🇬🇧
the eu needs a vision , the west needs a vision for itself, for its people,for its future, a united democratic eu nato type west of the world, with canada the us, the eu, uk ukraine,, japan s korea taiwan, australia nz, in a united eu nato type structure that will be open to admiting new members into its structure like the eu and nato did , democratic, rule of law , economic , human rights reforms, in exchange for acces to our markets, security guarantes, and structural funds to develope your society and economy like the countries in eastern europe had benefited, with the exception of on or two at the moment, the integration of the former warsaw pact countries into the eu and nato was and is a great succes and a posible template in how we can create stable free and democratic societies around the world, cuz spoiler, hate to break it to you, but the developed free world has only about 1 bil people out of 8 on the planet, so in my view, the more on our side, preferably working twards a future with all on our side, the much more better
Angela Merkel; grew up in East Germany ( more Soviet than Soviet itself ) and speaks the language hence have an understanding or maybe not of the Russian mind.
How could she ever believe that democracy comes through business. For me it's a cover up for something unknown. Kompromat? And Gerhard Schröder - what a vile person. The Germans has to come up with some answers. This is still influencing the SDP party parts being Putin friendly.
The position that economic interdependence would guarantee peace was also held by the EU (successfully), and the IMF (unsuccessfully).
So to be truthful and honest, it wasn't just her.
Moscow horde´s war record :-
1856 defeated by Britain and France
1905 defeated by Japan
1917 defeated by Germany
1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states
1939 defeated by Finland
1969 defeated by China
1989 defeated by Afghanistan
1989 defeated in the Cold War.
1996 defeated by Chechnya
2022 defeated by Ukraine
WW2 won USA/Britain , meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn
Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :-
a) Hungary 1956
b) Czechoslovakia 1968
c) Moldova 1992
d) Georgia 2008
A small dog has a sharp bark. But nothing else.
SCHOLTZES! We are not Castilian!
So non-political, Trump loke attitude towards country and freedoms
Some were hoping she will lead the NATO. That scared the Americans so now she will be the EU foreign policy Czar. Bad enough. I can't see her ever putting foot in Russia and no Russian will deal with her. Another door to peace locked out. Bravo!
Realism definition: "The attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly".
Realism definition: "A way of thinking and acting based on facts and what is possible, rather than on hopes for things that are unlikely to happen"
What they're being talked about here and labelled as "realism" is BS. I'm a realist. People such as Trump who want to force Ukraine into a stupid 'deal' are not realists, they're selfishly looking for easy out... that's expedience.
I support Ukraine's right to regain its territory and have Russia kicked out of Ukraine and out of Crimea. To me this goal is about realism. It's about dealing with reality the way it is and finding a path to the way we want it to be.
Lits of talk about Russian propaganda.....alironically this is western propaganda 🤷♀️
"hawkish"? spineless? opportunistic? her father was a ESSR hotshot (communist) and the family of her maternal grandmother was rather enthusiastic about a certain painter, and for that they were temporarily deported to Siberia. on the other hand Russians of Estonia got a more permanent deportation. somehow she is a hero?! 😂😂😂😂
What a nasty little comment.
Much love to Russia from Slovak Republik!
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Yeah right
Send your love letters to Putin. No one here is interested.