“The Location – International”
Expert Mölling: Europe has to change its Russia strategy
According to the Politologist Mölling, Putin’s political scientist has a demand for an ceasefire. You shouldn’t make this mistake again.
Friedrich Merz and his European allies have been tricked by Russia in their ceasefire culture in the opinion of Politologist Christian Mölling.
Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin had initially not reacted to an ultimatum set for a 30-day ceasefire and then called for a meeting between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul. This started today, but without Putin, who decided against participation.
Mölling: “That now falls on your feet”
“This is classic Russian trial tactics,” says Christian Mölling in star– “The Location -International”. “Because it means that you do not have to interrupt the ongoing fighting and pretends in parallel as if you make diplomacy and continue war on the other.”
Last weekend, Chancellor Friedrich Merz traveled to Kiev together with the French President Emmanuel Macron as well as the British Premier Keir and the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. There, the Putin quartet had asked to arrange a 30-day ceasefire so that discussions could take place on a solution to the conflict. Otherwise, Russia would threaten further sanctions. The deadline for the implementation had passed on Tuesday night without Moscow having to expose or reduced the fighting.
“Obviously you have the possibility that this does not work and what we do then do not think at all and that now falls on your feet,” explains the behavior of the European side.
What the EU lacks for success
The whole procedure also demonstrates another dilemma of Europeans. “It shows how important time, speed, is. If the others act faster than I do, I will be completely maneuvered with what I asked,” said Mölling.
The European Union takes a lot of time to agree on a new political line: “This is a huge problem.” The alternative to drive a decisive Russian strategy with a “coalition of Willingen”, in which one can react quickly and determined to Russian volts, has a major disadvantage. She undermines “the consensus mechanism within the European Union at the same time,” says Mölling.
But this is the nature of the EU to decide things in agreement. An unconvised procedure of some less “would no longer be easy”. “This is a huge dilemma.”
“Otherwise the damage will be even greater”
For the next European advance, however, it must be clear beforehand how to react if Russia does not steer. “If you do it again, the damage will only be greater for the credibility of Europeans,” warns Mölling.
He doesn’t promise much of the conversations in Istanbul. “These are people who have no blank checks to negotiate something,” he said of the Russian delegation, which is led by Vladimir Medinski, a Putin confidante, writer and former Minister of Culture.
According to Mölling, Istanbul is “a damper for all those who still hope that there would be a hacking solution”.
Source: Stern
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