This is the EUE’s foreign policy spokesperson, Anitta Hipper, quoted in the Guardian:
Russia is the aggressor. Russia needs to pay, and this is what we need to do to make and ensure that Ukraine stands strong.
This means more ammunition, more weapons, more defense. Putin only understands this language of power. So this is something that we will need to do, and we are doing in a united way.
And Russia is a threat, not only to Ukraine, but beyond Europe. So we need to stop Russia.
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Annita Hipper seems to have an academic background, (she seems to have been a Phd student in Germany), and to have held various functional roles at the Commission. I wonder if the above was her going off on her own bat. Basically this text is call for more war. She also appears to be one of those who, like Keir Starmer, the UK Prime Minister, have still not understood that Ukraine is losing on the battlefield and no amount of ammunition and weapons is going to fix the situation even if that were forthcoming, (which it isn’t), and even if the problem of how to arm Ukraine to defeat Russia without provoking Russia into escalation can be solved, (it can’t).
Is this nonsense still doing the rounds in EU and Commission circles? How can she be described as an “international relations expert”, as the above link seems to do? “More ammunition, more weapons”; more blood, more death, and all completely pointless since Ukraine is just not going to “stand strong”. And this derogatory abuse in place of analysis: “Putin only understands power”. So; you are going to ‘out-power’ ‘Putin’ then? Just how? How many dead Ukrainians is that going to cost and what is your strategic plan to achieve it?
This is just blood lust.
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