Loading ...“Futile Waste Of Human Resources & Money” – EU PM Says West Got Ukraine All Wrong
A lone outlier and rare voice of dissent to come out of the generally staunchly pro-Ukraine central and eastern European countries has been Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. He has stirred the pot again and caused outrage among fellow government officials after penning an op-ed this week wherein he slammed the West for getting Ukraine wrong all along.
He articulated that it’s largely the false “black-and-white vision” of the war, a simplistic narrative “desired in Washington or Brussels,” which has resulted in blunder after blunder, and greater suffering for all during an unnecessarily protracted conflict.
“Russia responded to the security situation and Ukraine’s pressure to join NATO by violating international law, using military force without an international mandate,” Fico wrote. “Big countries often do that, let’s see what the US accomplished in Iraq.”
“And the West, instead of immediately making every effort to achieve a quick ceasefire, at the beginning of 2022 without even losing a tenth to Ukraine, made a huge mistake,” he continued. “[The West] incorrectly evaluated the use of Russian military force as an opportunity to bring Russia to its knees.”
Am guessing PM Fico will not be invited to many “cocktail parties” at EU HQ……..