French “free thinker but in an institutionalized think tank context” position on Ukraine, against US deterministic one by Fiona Hill.
Worth the watch.
Short comment. If Hill gets her way, mid-/longterm, I’ll forget myself.
Needs detailed analysis contrasting the two positions (and mine maybe) - might do that tomorrow.
In short -
French position sees the out at regime change in Russia, then normalization of relations.
French argument for “neocolonialism of russia” is a poisoned one - as it, its not very strong to begin with (Only includes Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan as further targets (aside from the north south corridor and interventions of russian forces in ‘their periphery’ in the years prior), if thats “the empire”, the west actually really never was that worried… (not just “the leftist” position on that)), and moves from “neocolonialism, definitely”, to “neocolonialism is what we have to communicate to our african friends and partners, to get them to a propper understanding of the situation, to ‘a kind of neocolonialism’ in the very end. That is very underhanded. Maybe even random.
The core of the dispute is, if Europe can find peace in the medium term - to which Hills position is the one of a crazy MOFO as always…
Everything (Political union, outreach initiatives, peace building through trade initiatives, …) failed, Putin only tries to build empire, under a pretext of nuclear war, which allows him to get away with it, Europe cant exist as a non militaristic entity, maybe it cant exist at all anymore - in its current form, also really the only way forward from the current position is Nato, we have to convince the 2/3 of the world that dont believe a word of this - the key to this is solely “communication” *cough*, Putin planned this, Putin is the only deciding element here, he is also crazy and irrational, I know what Putin thinks, I was called to a precursor conflict when (look that up, was interesting, forgot the premise - didnt seem too staged), … War of attrition until the end.
To which the french counterpoint is, are you cray cray? Peace is possible, hopefully in the near future, Nato is not a given - the rest of the world doesnt believe in our narrative position (always seen as a working position to organize larger alliances), but then the concession - Putin must go, before trying to interconnect through trade and diplomacy may become a viable position again.
Also there is a kill off argument against the global leftist position thrown in there somewhere, need to find that line again as well…
To which our media system (ORF Europastudio) has the following nuances to add:
WE MUST TAKE RUSSIAS ATOMIC WEAPONRY AWAY, THEN THE WAR WILL END, AND THEN, …
Diese Gesellschaft ist das LETZTE. Sterbt.
