Comments by "andy99ish" (@andy99ish) on "No Backroom Deals, We Need Unity! Kaja Kallas Sends Powerful Global Warning! #eudebates #nato" video.

How can the Ukraine be involved ? Zelensky's mandate has expired. And now he even goes after his rival Poroshenko.
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In other words she comes from a country whose political class is quite inexperienced. It shows.
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Ms Kallas needs some lessons in how big politics works. She is mistaken to think that tiny Estonia is at the heart of strategic global issues. She is also mistaken as to the readiness of a whole continent, Europe, to enter into a permanent hostility towards Russia.
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Both the EU and the Ukraine gets a lesson in US Realpolitik. It is astonishing for me, as a European, that a general public, which boast with its education, is astonished about that. The USA in each and every conflict of the last 80 years reached a point, when they no longer wanted to finance an unwinnable war. And they never much cared about the side they previously have supported. There is nothing specifically Trumpish about that.
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She lives in the illusion that tiny Estonia is at the heart of big politics.
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Oh sure. By your wish .
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@ He/she is the EU Nostradamus.
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@gregand3083 And even though it is old, no one can counter it. You do not even try :))
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@RdlSssmd Do you always accuse people of other opinion to be ignorant ? If so then you a good illustration of what Vance said about the retreat of free speech in Europe. Now my grandparents and parents come from a country, which suffered from tsarist Russian imperialism, then Nazi and then Soviet aggression. Living in Western Europe in the early 1980s as a teenager I was speaking out loudly against Western pacifism, which in these times was very pronounced. People back then called me ignorant and a militarist and a "Sovietophobe". Most of them did not even know what Estonia was and were lost when I mentioned it. And then came the 1990s, a historic chance to overcome or at least mitigate traditional tensions with Russia, which was weak and appeasing at that time. Western elites missed that chance. We cannot undo history. But we can do better: We have the problem that the political class of post-Soviet countries lives in the illusion that they can provoke Russia (like Latvia does by repressing their Russian minority), as they deem to be 100% protected by NATO or EU insurance. This is a dangerous fallacy. You might not like that, but sincerity is the best I can do for you.
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Yes, but while Kallas comes from a politically inexperienced country, Baerbock comes from a country which produced Bismarck, Adenauer, Schmidt, Kohl and the like. No coincidence that the term "Realpolitik" is also used in English. Given that Baerbock is more shocking.
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@FrankyS74 Indeed, when positions are filled by criteria like sex and race (which I deem to be quintessentially sexist, racist) and not by qualifications, then a civilization's heritage is irrelevant anyway. I am not sure if a Baerbock knows who Bismarck even was, or if a Harris knows about say, the Cuban missile crisis. However we collectively tend to vote for such people. Why ? Because our societies prefer to have a rosy picture presented and real problems pushed aside and ersatz-topics being debated. As a result, we collectively do NOT WANT qualified people. Crazy times.
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In the Ukraine we have a proxy war between the US and Russia. The US invested in Ukrainian soil before and wanted to test the limits of pushing NATO even further eastwards. Now the limits are known. Naturally it is the main players who will negotiate peace. Zelensky's mandate to speak for the Ukrainian people has expired anyway. More generally US politics is mainly realistic. Trump is at least sincere about that.
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@KazimierzSurma Quite the contrary. I am all FOR Poles and all FOR rational people !
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@RdlSssmd So she is mistaken as to believe that the EU is an entity of foreign policy. I am citizen of an EU country and my country conducts sovereign foreign policy.
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@appstratum9747 Actually I do not blame the US for pursuing its interests. What I dislike is that by an flowery, idealistic rhetoric of US Presidents and other top US officials people are mislead to believe that the US will actually sacrifice itself for others. And then reality sets in. That why, as a European, I prefer Trump's harsh sincerity. And I welcome his drive to end that war. Even more so, as a majority of Ukrainians and Russians want peace too and a resurgence war driven inflation is felt all over the EU. That peace deals are always massive compromises and not manifestations of justice, I accept as a given.
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@ Because they are naive women. Unlike say, Georgia Meloni.
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In the Ukraine we have a proxy war between the US and Russia. The US invested in Ukrainian soil before and wanted to test the limits of pushing NATO even further eastwards. Now the limits are known. Naturally it is the main players who will negotiate peace. Zelensky's mandate to speak for the Ukrainian people has expired anyway. US politics is mainly realistic. Trump is at least sincere about that.
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In the Ukraine there is a USA-Russia proxy war. It is only natural that these two sides now negotiate its end. And Zelensky's mandate to speak for the Ukrainian people has expired anyway. On top he now started to go after his political rival Poroshenko.
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This is a proxy war between the USA and Russia. It is only natural that they now negotiate peace.
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There is no political entity called Europe. And for sure the EU, in which roughly half of Europeans live, is not representing Europe.
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@Hrutz36 Oh no, no, no, we will do a lot ! Our officials will utter powerful statements which even Luxemburg will ratify. Of course that statement will be formulated in non-binary speech and include manifestations of respect towards everyone but the European people, unless they are in one of the oppressed classes. Take that Vlad !!!
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@RdlSssmd Your belief in the validity of the EU's foreign policy is another illusion, so much cherished in new and unexperienced countries. In reality the most big European nations are not ready to pay for a never ending hostility toward Russia. This and similar positions are reflected in elections. And we have a rich history of European countries just doing their own thing, when it comes to vital matters. Some of many examples are: 1) the de facto abolishment of Schengen under the pressure of mass immigration. 2) disrespecting the Maastrich criteria by roughly half of EU countries. 3) Poland conducting its own immigration policy. 4) Hungary not joining the anti-Russian front. And do not forget that the UK has left as a result of perceived EU overreach. I can only advise each country, including Estonia, to conduct a foreign policy as if neither NATO nor the EU were around. And having achieved that, take any NATO / EU benefits as something which comes on top.
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@ Rather ask these Afghans who were loyal to the US. And then fell off the departing US planes.
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Deeming to be on some neo-colonialist global crusade is not "American in the best sense". The world prefers a realistic USA over a supposedly idealistic one. As the latter, for all its abstract virtue, creates illusions, for which other people pay in blood. Best regards from Europe !
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@KazimierzSurma You must be one of those realistic Poles, correct ? :)
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@KazimierzSurma So, in the spirit of realism, here is what I think: Both the EU and the Ukraine now gets a lesson in US Realpolitik. It is astonishing for me, as a European, that European political elites, boasting with their historical experience, are astonished about that. The USA in each and every conflict of the last 80 years reached a point, when they no longer wanted to finance an unwinnable war. And before that President Roosevelt traded 1/3 of Europe to "Uncle Joe" Stalin, overriding Churchill. The US never much cared about the side they previously have supported. There is nothing specifically Trumpish about that. Now I do not blame the US for pursuing its goals. However I do blame European politicians for taking flowery, idealistic rhetoric for reality.
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