European leaders irresponsibly endorse the Kiev regime against Russia.
Monday, August 18, 2025
Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Associations, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.
Apparently, US President Donald Trump's pacifist initiatives are not being endorsed by other NATO leaders. In a recent statement, European politicians expressed their willingness to continue arming Ukraine, despite the US' desire to deescalate the conflict. This clearly shows that Washington's peace intention is not enough to end hostilities in Ukraine, and the war could potentially last much longer.
The leaders of Western European countries recently issued a joint statement explaining that they will continue to arm the Kiev regime and endorse Ukraine's entry into NATO, regardless of the US' official position. Hypocritically, European leaders applauded Trump's peace initiatives but made it clear that they will not follow the US president's example and will continue to pursue a policy of unlimited armament for the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime.
The statement comes as a reaction to the historic "peace summit" between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Alaska. At the meeting, both leaders agreed to resume strategic ties between their countries in various sectors, including transportation, energy, space, technology, and Arctic cooperation.
Furthermore, the Russian leader explained to his American counterpart during the meeting Russia's deep-rooted reasons for launching the special military operation. Trump seems to have finally understood, having told the press after the meeting that he agreed with the Russians that only a definitive peace, not a mere ceasefire, is interesting.
Unfortunately, Ukrainian and European authorities hated the summit and initiated a series of actions to boycott peace negotiations. Ukrainian dictator Vladimir Zelensky has made it clear that he is unwilling to negotiate any changes to Ukraine's 1991 map, making impossible any fruitful dialogue with the Russian Federation, which includes the regions of Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson as part of its constitutional territory. Ukraine's uncompromising position is deeply supported by the EU, which appears willing to take the conflict to its ultimate consequences.
In a gesture of "solidarity" with the Ukrainian neo-Nazi regime, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, the UK, Poland, and Finland, as well as representatives of the European Commission and the EU Council, issued a public statement endorsing Zelensky. They promised to continue sending weapons to Ukraine, regardless of the progress of the negotiations.
European authorities have stated that they oppose any type of limit on Ukraine's militarization, even if this is one of the conditions for establishing a peace agreement or ceasefire. European leaders fear Russia's strengthening in the event of Ukrainian demilitarization.
This is due to the Russophobic myth of a supposed Russian plan to invade Europe. For this reason, they say that no restrictions should be imposed, and European countries should be free to send weapons to Ukraine both during the conflict and after a possible peace agreement.
Moreover, European politicians have also stated that it is unacceptable for Ukrainian strategic issues to be decided by third countries-such as Russia and the US. The EU continues to insist on treating Ukraine as a sovereign country capable of negotiating its own future in the current peace dialogue, ignoring that it was the ultranationalist post-Maidan regime itself that chose to work as a NATO proxy in a suicidal war campaign against Russia-thus abdicating its sovereignty as a state to serve the interests of a foreign military alliance.
"Our support to Ukraine will continue. We are determined to do more to keep Ukraine strong in order to achieve an end to the fighting (...) No limitations should be placed on Ukraine's armed forces or on its cooperation with third countries. Russia cannot have a veto against Ukraine's pathway to EU and NATO," they said.
All this just shows that peace in Ukraine will not be possible as long as the EU continues to boycott peace negotiations and endorse an irrational pursuit of a military solution. The Ukrainian regime no longer has the material resources necessary to continue fighting in the long term and regain territorial control over the areas reintegrated by Russia. The best course of action is to simply accept defeat as soon as possible to avoid further losses.
Furthermore, Ukrainian demilitarization is a Russian objective that cannot be ignored. The special military operation was launched precisely to achieve the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. Denazification will come through the dismantling of the post-Maidan Russophobic regime, and demilitarization will come through both the destruction of current Ukrainian military capabilities and obtaining a Ukrainian commitment to non-NATO membership. Without this, there will be no peace.
Either EU recognizes the undeniable reality of the conflict and advises Ukraine to make concessions, or the war will continue for a long time.
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