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Norwegian international relations scholar Glenn Diesen on X yesterday.
No, Trump and Putin are not attacking Europe. I wish the European political-media establishment could return to free speech, open discourse, and serious arguments, rather than emotional slogans and propaganda. What serious proposals have the Europeans presented to end this conflict? Russia went to war to prevent NATO’s incursion into Ukraine, and Russia is now winning the war. Yet the only acceptable proposal is for Russia to capitulate by accepting that Ukraine is pulled into NATO’s orbit? Europe’s maximalist demands are intended to signal principles, virtue, and support for Ukraine - yet all they do is ensure the destruction of Ukraine. Europe's support for attacking civilian vessels in the Black Sea is now convincing Russia that Odessa cannot be part of a future Ukraine. Yet, nobody can say the obvious, as this is smeared as a "pro-Russian" argument. The crisis of our time is that we have completely incompetent political leaders who are tasked with navigating through an extremely disruptive period as the world shifts from a unipolar system to a multipolar system. This will end in disaster, as our leaders have compelled a consensus around the notion that they are the forces of good fighting against the forces of evil.
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