Letter to John Bolton

Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin.

John Bolton:

"It is unconscionable to allow Russia to assault Ukraine’s sovereignty, recruit enemies like North Korea to aid in their fight, and then sell out the Ukrainians by conceding the loss of their territory and NATO security guarantees or membership.  By making these and others concessions before negotiations even started, Trump has effectively surrendered to Putin on Ukraine. "

Dear John, I will say ...

The EU had seven years to resolve the conflict, but our weak leaders couldn't do it, they just froze it.

Here's unfortunately the result  of the weakness of our leaders.

Ukraine is losing more than just the Crimean peninsula. Much more.

Former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin see that there will be raised concerns as a very worrying rise in conservative, masculine forces across the global stage.

Reflecting on the war in Ukraine, Marin adding that “Europe couldn’t cope on our own”. 

She emphasis the need for Europe to have “strategic autonomy”, saying that there will be “one reality that we have to wake up to and we need to do better in the future."

“The thing that we should learn isn’t that we should depend on the US, the thing that we should learn is actually that we should be more independent. We need that strategic autonomy on defence, on energy, that we learned when Russia used energy as a weapon towards the European Union.”

I agree.