Ogee wrote: Sat May 13, 2023 5:07 pm EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell spinning the truth 180 degrees.

"The war in Ukraine is an existential conflict for us." No it never was, you pushing NATO right up to the Russian border created an existential threat to Russia.

EU relations with China will not develop normally unless China convinces Russia to leave Ukraine. Life is complicated. If we don't like their behaviour, we can't be good friends. The war in Ukraine is an existential conflict for us. China needs to understand this. And China needs to understand that the EU does not like the circumvention of sanctions.

Meanwhile,

Possible deliveries of weapons or military goods to Russia by third countries are equated with participation in the conflict in Ukraine - German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock

Err, but Germany suppling weapons to Ukraine isn't equated to participation??

Either these leaders are totally stupid or they think we are?

Meanwhile (2), 'Let's not mention the counteroffensive anymore.

General Hodges: the US can " screw up " the UAF counteroffensive
“What can ruin everything is the West’s excessive pressure on Ukraine,” the former commander of US forces in Europe told Business Insider.
Hodges pointed out that the US and allies spent billions of dollars "because they believed in what Ukraine was fighting for."

He attributed the West's growing apprehension about the conflict to an inability to believe that Russia could actually fail

GERMAN COLONEL RALPH THILLE: THE UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE WILL BE MADE UP OF MANY SMALLER ATTACKS - "PING WITH A NEEDLE"

Translation: Really don't expect too much from the Ukraine army but please keep sending the money.

Meanwhile (3) Zelensky praises cocaine, perhaps he should give some to his troops.

GERMAN COLONEL RALPH THILLE: THE UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVE WILL BE MADE UP OF MANY SMALLER ATTACKS - "PING WITH A NEEDLE"..... ...The big counter offensive scaled down to "pocking the bear".......