7
Jun
2022
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The EU’s Foreign, Security and Defence Policy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine (debate)
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, in your opinion, the Africans have not understood anything, the Indians are picking up and the Chinese are not talking about it! What you want to vote for is a text that, in fact, infantilizes half the world. You see that much of the world does not agree with European policy on Ukraine and Russia, so you say that you are going to explain to them that the Russian war in Ukraine is really serious. No, but... explain... as if they were children. No, they got it right. It is just that, on some points, they disagree. In particular, they reproach you for your lack of diplomatic efforts to stop the war, they reproach you for the negative impact of sanctions on workers all over the world, and, finally, they reproach Europe for ‘double standards’. When Russia attacks Ukraine, Europe sanctions, of course. But when the US bombs Iraq, no sanctions, when Saudi Arabia bombs Yemen, no sanctions, when we, the European Union, bomb and destroy Libya, no sanctions, and when Israel colonises Palestine, no sanctions. This is double standards. This hypocrisy is what the peoples of the world reproach you for. If you want their support, just listen to them. That would be an alternative.