If France is unable to help Ukraine, how will it help Armenia?
February 20 2025, 11:30
There are now more and more statements in the political and expert community that modern Western politicians are facing a “crisis of leadership.” The decline in the authority of the ruling elites, who lack productive ideas and have nothing to offer the population but instead demand unquestioning obedience, is also an increasingly obvious sign of the crisis of political leadership.
US Vice President JD Vance spoke about the crisis of political leadership in the EU globally at the Munich Security Conference. According to the logic of Vance’s speech, the crisis comes as the EU has betrayed itself by abandoning a system of values based on Christian ethics.
The crisis of political leadership is also what is currently happening in the EU, as Russia and the United States are holding talks on Ukraine and the security architecture in Europe as a whole.
After the apparently successful talks between the Russian and American delegations in Riyadh, it became known that France is going to host a second meeting to discuss the conflict in Ukraine and European security, in particular with European countries that were not present at the latest meeting. Those invited will be, in particular, Norway, Canada, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Greece, Finland and Romania, as well as Sweden and Belgium. The format of the meeting is planned to be hybrid, including video participation.
We will not be mistaken if we say that the second meeting, like the first, will not lead to significant results. Didn’t European leaders hear what Donald Trump said during the re-election campaign? Didn’t they hear what he said after his election? It was openly stated that the United States would negotiate with Russia not just on Ukraine, but on the European security architecture as a whole. Someone seriously believes that the EU, which has not been able to do anything to help Ukraine in the three years since the beginning of the war and in the three months after Trump’s election, will be able to solve the problems of financial and other supplies to Kiev in two or three days in conditions not only of the US withdrawal from the war but also Washington’s shift towards partnership with Moscow?
In this situation, we are concerned about the following: if Ukraine is geographically closer to France than Armenia, if there is a war in Ukraine, and Paris has the opportunity to organize military logistics, but is unable to help Kiev, then why and, most importantly, how can it help Armenia?
Recall that the head of the Munich Security Conference, Christoph Heusgen, was moved during his farewell speech. He was moved and began to cry, allegedly expressing gratitude to the President of Ukraine. In fact, he burst into tears, apparently because he understood the essence of Vance’s speech and that the “cash flow from Washington” was closed to European bureaucrats like him. But what matters here is that while we are all watching these tears, the Armenian authorities are making mistakes that will make us cry. What kind of mistakes are we talking about?
It’s very simple—like Zelensky, the Armenian side has banned itself from talks with Moscow or on the Moscow platform. This alone is enough to understand the potential scale of the problems…
Think about it…