Posted on 09/13/2022 4:41:37 AM PDT by FarCenter
FLORENCE – “Unity of Europe is a paramount concern, as dividing us is one of the main objectives of the war waged by Russia,” declared French President Emmanuel Macron earlier this month.
Macron, who has billed himself as Europe’s top leader since the departure of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has sought to maintain internal coherence and cohesion within the European Union (EU) while also maintaining functional communication channels with Russia amid the raging war in Ukraine.
After closing ranks and displaying remarkable unity in face of Russia’s aggression earlier this year, however, cracks are beginning to appear within the EU.
On one hand, Macron enraged many leaders in the Baltics and Eastern Europe when he characterized them as “warmongers” and insisted that “a few states on our eastern flanks” should not be allowed to “act alone” against Russia.
Meanwhile, populist parties, many of them with pro-Kremlin sympathies, have been gaining ground in major capitals, most especially in Italy. Latest polls suggest that a far-right coalition, led by Giorgia Meloni (Brothers of Italy) and flanked by Matteo Salvini (Northern League) and Silvio Berlusconi (Forza Italia), is set to take the helm of Rome later this month.
In a bid to win over mainstream voters, Meloni has struck a more traditional line on the Ukraine crisis, but her key allies and other European populist forces in the region will likely press for the reversal of anti-Russia sanctions ahead of a looming energy crisis this winter as Moscow curtails gas supplies.
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Macron is the top leader of Europe? Well, crap!
They feel that cold north wind blowing up their keister.
You’re using Asia Times in a free speech forum?
“Asia Times is owned by Asia Times Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong company holding multimedia and public relations assets.”
It’s a Chines Communist Party controlled publication!
Asia has many non-CCP-controlled countries and publications.
Why not Soviet Life? or Putin Today? At least they’re truthful representations of bias.
“You’re using Asia Times in a free speech forum?”
So where do find the truth in news?
Pls, point out your favorite sites.
PS: You may want to bone up on logical fallacies.
They may work on your friends but this tends to be a tough crowd around FR.
“So where do find the truth in news?”
I have no ‘favorite sites’ since all media is corrupt, everyone has an angle. I only have sources I do not trust. Communist and Leftist sources are at the top of that list.
Why does an American conservative shill for Putin, a communist murderer, attempting to destroy his once peaceful neighbor?
Clearly a foreign enemy.
Perhaps you are not what you present yourself to be.
I spoke with some Germans yesterday. They are not optimistic, to say the least. The price estimates they are seeing are beyond anything they’ve ever encountered.
I am predicting a very mild winter for Europe. Putin’s cold war against Europe flops, and he offs himself before March first. Putin will die March 2023 or be deposed and sent to Sochi to retire under Kremlin’s armed guards.
How will Bad Vlad Putin commit suicide? With a gun to his ear.
Clearly a foreign enemy.
Perhaps you are not what you present yourself to be.
Anything that supports/ strengthens Putin brings WWIII closer.
Because he is the one that will pull the trigger.
Your moniker is certainly apt.
Dumb as a rock.
Perhaps, but I do not claim to be the author of a book titled “Enemies Foreign and Domestic” while supporting one of the foremost foreign enemies; Putin.
How does that work?
That would require cognitive dissonance.
Thanks for putting out your kindergarten level of understanding.
Dumb as a rock.
My concern is the people who follow Putin will be worse - and worse quickly.
When I think of something bad happening to Biden - my first thought is ‘please let Biden be OK - the country can’t take someone as stupid as Harris’.
It’s a similar feeling about Putin.
Look who followed Lenin? One of the great "What ifs", is had Lenin lived to rule Russia longer. A lot of speculation he would have moderated over the years, as he did with the NEP (New Economic Policy). Stalin pretty much kept the Soviet Union on "War Communism" the whole time.
How is Russia an enemy?
Germany has been weak in the knees since day one.
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