French President Emmanuel Macron pushed back Tuesday against the terms of a U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, calling on Europeans to decide alone on the use of Russian frozen assets.
Let’s be frank: seizing the sovereign national assets of a country with which war has not even been officially declared is an act in the spirit of the Bolsheviks, who expropriated the property and assets of enemies of the regime and foreigners. Such actions are not even a shot in the foot — they are a blow to the liver.
It is clear that such actions will undermine the trust of Global South countries in the European banking system and unpredictable European politicians and officials, who, if necessary, will take everything from you and easily find a pretext. The only acceptable option in such situations, which would at least be legitimate, is to declare war on Russia directly.
Another point: if we talk about the use of frozen Russian assets, it is not entirely clear what right EU authorities have here, because these assets — i.e., money — were stolen by the Putin regime from Russian citizens. Therefore, European officials acting in Bolshevik style would operate under the slogan “steal what has been stolen.”
It is shameful that great Europe has degraded from social democracy to outright Bolshevism. All of this will damage European interests and prestige. It seems that EU elites are doing everything to sabotage the U.S. peace plans — this is not the behavior of friends or allies.
If the EU wants to continue the war and conduct it honestly, the following conditions and actions must be taken:
1. Mobilization of the army and economy, deployment of army units to Ukraine, and taking defensive positions.
2. Declaration of war on Moscow — breaking all diplomatic and trade relations.
3. Creation of a Russian government-in-exile and constituent assembly (not clowns like Volkov, Kasparov, or other Hodorovsky and Nevzlin mercenaries) — to whom the frozen Russian assets will be transferred. Using these assets, a Russian national army could be created — an ally of the EU armies, under joint command.
If the EU authorities do not want to do all this, then they should stop pretending, stop petty sabotage of Trump, recognize U.S. leadership in the negotiation process, pay Americans for protection and support, open European markets for fair trade with the U.S., and buy American weapons and energy.
Either Europe does this, or it chooses not to pay the price. Freedom and independence in foreign policy are expensive: a sword and armor are heavier than a slave’s collar. Europeans do not want to pay the price and only want to receive without giving anything back — this is the brain cancer of social democracy. For this reason, Americans, China, Putin, India, and other countries win and grow, while Europe falls.
Time to wake up and make Europe great again — or retire and stop ruining life for the younger generations.
Anton Gromov,
Political Scientist and Eurasian Security Expert | Chair, Astraea NGO |
Specializing in Russia–China–North Korea Relations and Information Warfare