EUROPE OF “TRAGEDIES”
Trump, who spoke to Putin on Feb 12 and says he needs to be remembered as a “peace maker”, has upended US coverage on the Ukraine conflict. Lavrov mentioned that the decision with Putin had been at Trump’s initiative.
Trump mentioned final week that the conflict may grow to be World Warfare Three, that he had spoken to Putin on “quite a few events” and that he thought that there could be a deal on Ukraine peace.
On Friday, he and Vice President JD Vance clashed with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy within the Oval Workplace. Trump accused Zelenskyy of disrespecting the USA, mentioned he was shedding the conflict and had no playing cards left.
European leaders leapt to Zelenskyy’s defence.
However Lavrov criticised Europe, saying that for the previous 500 years Europe had been the crucible of “all of the tragedies of the world” together with colonisation, wars, crusaders, the Crimean Warfare, Napoleon Bonaparte, World Warfare One and Adolf Hitler.
“And now, after (former US President Joe) Biden’s time period, folks have are available who wish to be guided by frequent sense. They are saying straight that they wish to finish all wars, they need peace,” Lavrov mentioned.
“And who calls for a ‘continuation of the banquet’ within the type of a conflict? Europe.”
Lavrov additionally dismissed European concepts for sending in a contingent of European peacekeepers and mentioned Russia had no belief in Ukraine after the collapse of the Minsk agreements, which have been designed to finish a separatist conflict by Russian audio system in japanese Ukraine.
Europeans, Lavrov mentioned, couldn’t clarify what rights Russian audio system would have beneath the European peacekeeper plans, including that Russia didn’t like the thought of Europeans propping up Zelenskyy.
“Now additionally they wish to prop him up with their bayonets within the type of peacekeeping models. It will imply that the basis causes won’t disappear,” Lavrov mentioned.
