Europe splitting on Ukraine as energy crisis looms

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.

You shill for Putin on every thread and yet appear unable to defend your stance. Why is that?

Yes, it would be difficult to present a coherent explanation.

But you make no attempt.
As an author, you should have the skills and vocabulary but you digress to name calling.
Surprising.

Dumbgrunt 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.

PutinToad: How is Russia an enemy?

huh? Dumbgrunt very clearly said PUTIN is an enemy, not all of Russia, leave alone Russians

Don't equate Putin with Russia. Putin is the destroyer of Russia

I have always wanted to visit and walk the famous steps up to the “MOTHERLAND CALLS” in Volgograd, an inspiring and powerful work. My father’s family came from Scotland and still, I can feel her calling.
Today she weeps, knowing her children are dying and the damage will last generations or more.
And she knows the Ukrainians as her sons-in-law and Godchildren, they too are dying.
-—FOR NOTHING but Putin’s sickness.

Closer to home and around the globe who funds the green movement? The unions? the woke nuts, BLM, and many more attempting to debase free people and democracy. In an effort to promote worldwide communism; nothing new.
In Europe, it is accepted, that greens and communists/socialists are joined at the hip.
How do you think they became so locked in on Russian energy supplies? It wasn’t Greta.

It is my personal opinion that Putin could have purchased most of Ukraine with the lure of cheap energy and cash but that takes time. He tried subversion and a bit of terror; but not fast enough for him.

Take a look at the Chinese BELT & ROAD to see how it is done.
In a recent article, it was called a “suitcase invasion” at the Russian Chinese border. The Chinese will recover their lost land without kinetic actions.

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