Biden, Scholz, Macron and Starmer Talked Like... Gendarmes

In the sense that they promised to bring “rules-based order” to Europe. They discussed Volodymyr Zelensky’s “victory plan” and promised to help as much as they could. But without extremism.

Thus, the four leaders grossly violated the important rule of “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine”. But they can. The Fathers can.

Vladimir Zelensky was nearby at the same time, in Brussels. It’s an hour by plane to Berlin. However, he was not invited. And this is an important symptom.

It seems that Zelensky is increasingly perceived in the “big four” as a problem, a growing burden and even as a threat (in the sense of provoking a pan-European war).