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"Mr President, the Kremlin has got all it wanted from its bargain with President Sarkozy. President Sarkozy’s ‘peace in our time’ deal gave them what they wanted, and the diplomatic way out. Since the Second World War, the fundamental principle in international relations was that aggression must not pay, or that political concessions should not be made to aggressors, but Moscow has been victorious and NATO humiliated, with the EU playing both sides.
As an institution, the European Union is simply not on the democratic Western side in the new Cold War. The EU does not belong to the free world. It is anti-democratic, undemocratic and imperialistic. Institutionally, it is inclined to side with other anti-democratic empires, not free nations. The EU is not governed by law but by ideology.
Unfortunately, European governments – as good Europeans – will choose to follow the EU’s disastrous position towards Russia, rather than their own collective national interest."@en1
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