Clint Azzopardi Flores has written an article where he accused Ursula von der Leyen, Manfred Weber, and the European People’s Party of being Nazis and warmongers. The Russian security services stationed in Malta can’t be happier that they have their own useful fool among the party of useful fools that want to appease them. Clint Azzopardi Flores wants to be a member of the S&D and is contesting the European Parliament elections.
I’m glad he published this article. Apart from exhibiting a very shallow and myopic view of how the world works, as well as a strong ignorance of history, Clint Azzopardi’s simplistic and reductionist discourse on war, defense, and nuclear weapons is composed of the exact talking points and arguments made by the Kremlin. Chief among these is the argument that Russia invaded Ukraine because the West failed to negotiate with Russia.
The Minsk Agreements were already a very appeasing negotiating platform for Russia after they had invaded Ukraine, taken over Crimea illegally, and started a war in the Donbas. Russia broke the Minsk Agreements countless times because Russia was never interested in negotiations or diplomacy in the first place. All of this discourse is just a smokescreen to hide the fact of Russia’s belligerent and imperialist nature: its true interests and aspirations.
No one today in the West goes around blaming the West for the Russian invasion of Ukraine except for the Kremlin-paid propagandists and Russia’s own supporters. No serious historian except the lunatic and the deceptive would ever believe that Russia was provoked or that the West has had any blame whatsoever on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. These facts are very clear and intelligent people who distort these facts should be seen with incredible suspicion.
We are supposedly a democratic, educated, and free society and don’t blame women for getting raped. Equivalently, it is not in Europe’s interest to allow Russia to dictate what countries and nations in Europe should exist or not. This is not about our will for peace, negotiations, or diplomacy. Making a reductionist and stupid argument saying “I don’t agree with nuclear weapons” shows naivety or outright deception. No one likes nuclear weapons and war and we should not allow these stupid and reductionist arguments to subvert our security and way of life.
Russia is subverting Europe from within and its interests are to see a defenseless Europe and a European electorate that is blackmailed easily and fears Russia. Politicians like Clint Azzopardi Flores contribute to Russia’s empowerment and Europe’s disempowerment by selling lies and contorted narratives.
That Europe has a nuclear deterrent is a prerequisite for Europe’s security and it has nothing to do with whether people like war or nuclear weapons. A strong Europe that can withstand nuclear blackmail is a prerequisite for the survival of our democracy and the rule of law. Those like Clint Azzopardi Flores who are spreading lies about the dangers of having a Europe that can defend itself, are themselves the ones who are pushing us into ever greater danger.
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