Posted on 04/07/2022 11:11:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A video of lawmaker Guy Verhofstadt criticizing the European Union’s approach to dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone viral.
The Belgian Member of European Parliament (MEP) shared the video on his Twitter page on Wednesday. It has been viewed over 2.5 million times in that time.
“Your strategy of incremental sanctions doesn’t work. Cannot work. That’s why 212 members of Parliament demand a special #EUCO meeting to decide on full sanctions immediately,” Verhofstadt wrote as a caption. […]
“Finally, a little advice to my friends in Germany. I think that after the horrors of the Second World War, there has emerged a strong and democratic Germany. A very strong and democratic Germany but from such a Germany I expect leadership, leading by example and not dragging their feet, as we see it today.” …
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Cheap populism.
I want Germany (and the EU) to ‘lead’ and my country, the USA, to bow out. The Sov, er, Russia-Ukraine war is way more complicated than it seems and there are no “good guys.”
The only folks I like are the Ukrainians who took up arms to defend their homeland. They shouldn’t have die for their leaders’ mistakes and Putin’s ambition.
Germans should STFU about Ukraine for a century or two after what they did.
Only if the Russians GTFO of Ukraine for a century or two after what they did.
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