"Amid growing justification for Russian aggression and a trend towards engaging with post-Soviet dictators, the EU is missing the fact that Moscow is a threat to Europe as whole" former Belarusian presidential candidate and diplomat Andrei Sannikov writes in The Guardian.
"Putin is more efficient in his decisions to continue aggression than the EU is in its decision to protect values. --- It is alarming to hear the new European leadership declaring the necessity to step up critical engagement with Belarus. It is well known that by this the EU means less criticism and more engagement with the dictator.
Ukraine and Europe are in danger as long as this “dictators international” exists. Any engagement with one dictator with the hope to deal with other ones will lead to more instability, more repression and more war in Europe."
The Guardian (October 28, 2014) full text: "Why is Europe turning its back on Ukraine?"
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/28/-sp-ukraine-russia-europe-andrei-sannikov
"Europe does not want to be disturbed. It doesn’t want to see the dangers to itself beyond Russia’s war in Ukraine. It wants to go back to “business as usual” with Russia as soon as possible. The war is a nuisance. Dead bodies of Ukrainian patriots are a nuisance.
Europe cannot understand that this is a war on Europe, not on Ukraine, and that Putin, if not convincingly defeated, will go ahead with his expansionism and revisionism. The ground is laid for that: Transnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, Russian minorities in Baltic states, the Kaliningrad exclave, and now Donbass and Lugansk are more than enough of a major Kremlin offensive in Europe. Ukrainians stood up against such a scenario between November 2013 and February 2014. They fought against Russian domination. They fought not for the EU Association Agreement but for their dignity, for the same values that Europe is built upon."
Link thanks to Andrei Sannikov.
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