Pave: Weenies And Warsaw

Le jour 459 de Sarko

One can forget about any talk about Georgia's territorial integrity because, I believe, it is impossible to persuade South Ossetia and Abkhazia to agree with the logic that they can be forced back into the Georgian state.

Sergey Lavrov,
Russian Foreign Minister,
explaining that Russia has not invaded Georgia,
Russia is only securing its own natural enlargement
GORI, Georgia August 14, 2008 (Fox/AP)

Well, since Russia here confirms what the EU has already forgotten, that only leaves serving Russia dessert. And testily looking to America to pick up the tab.

Once again, it turns out that the real decisions in this organization [scil., EU] are being made between Berlin and Paris. Saying that the Union will have a common policy toward Russia is laughable.

Lech Kaczynski,
President of Poland,
describing the "more equal" among equals EU principle
(infra)

POLISH PRESIDENT CRITICIZES FRANCE, GERMANY

WARSAW August 16, 2008 (IHT) - Poland's president criticized the way France and Germany have handled the crisis between Russia and Georgia, accusing them Saturday of being too soft on Moscow due to their commercial ties with Russia.

Lech Kaczynski also said that European Union policy was being decided by the two EU giants without taking into consideration the views of new EU members such as Poland that once fell under Moscow's control during the Cold War.

... Poland and the ex-Soviet republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, all new EU members, have sharply condemned Russia for its military incursion into Georgia amid the conflict in South Ossetia.

After the fighting broke out, the presidents of the four countries issued a joint statement calling Russia's policy "imperialist and revisionist" and urging NATO and the European Union to stand up to Moscow.

Leaders from those four nations followed that up with a trip in recent days to Tbilisi, joined by Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko, to show their support to Georgia.

... The already chilly ties worsened significantly in the past days, with a Russian general threatening an attack — even a nuclear one — against Poland on Friday because Warsaw agreed to allow a planned U.S. missile defense site in its borders.

Hear that? [Silence.] That is the outrage and condemnation of France for pre-emptive war, for war without UN sanction, for unilateralism, for military action without consultation. [The silence of space.]

In Europa no one can hear you scream.

PFFT (What is this?): Collective irresponsibility 3½ | Rayonnement français 0