LOS ANGELES (OC).–Deputy chief of Russia’s Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, said that recent incursions into Poland and Estonia’s airspace were intended to remind European of the danger of war. Russia President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied that the airspace violations happened at all or, at the very least, were simply miscalculations close to the Ukrainian warzone. Medvedev said disruptions in air traffic to airports in Denmark and Germany were completely unnecessary, attesting to the EU’s war footing. Brussels has taken over security for Ukraine, refusing to follow President Donald Trump’s peace plan that would have Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky trading land-for-peace, something now deemed unacceptable to Ukraine and the EU. EU officials publicly say Russia represents a threat to the European Union.
Medvedev said any disruptions in air traffic control and Germany were entirely unnecessary, only played on by warmongers in the EU like French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, all of whom show strong anti-Russian propensities. Medvedev said that disruptions to air traffic control were all theatrics, knowing that Russia was not engaged in any aggression toward the EU. “People whon sympathize with our country [in Europe] will not waste their resources by coming out of hiding. Our ‘agents and moles’ are waiting for a separate order,” Medvedev wrote on his officials Telegram channel. Medvedev recent drew a rebuke from President Donald Trump for threatening the U.S. and EU with the use of nukes. Trump told Medvedev he’d be better of biting his tongue.
Medvedev, like others in the Kremlin, are well-aware that the Ukraine War has morphed into a war between the EU and Russian Federation. Trump managed to get Putin to see that the U.S. is not the enemy of Russia, has done everything possible to bring about peace. Medvedev, a known war hawk, said the Russian Federation appreciates Trump’s peace efforts but knows all the obstacles. “The main think is that short-sighted Europeans feel the danger of war on their own skin. That they fear and tremble like dumb animals in a herd being driven to slaughter,” Medvedev said, hoping that the EU would turn of Macron, Merz and Starmer. Medvedev, like Putin, sees that EU increasingly hostile toward Russia, knowing that they back Zelensky’s continue war with the Kremlin. Medvedev would like to see the EU show less hostility to the Russian Federation.
Trump was aced out of the peace process primarily by the EU who developed their own security concerns with the Russian Federation. Medvedev wanted the EU to know that Russia is not their enemy, despite all the bad mouthing by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz who recently called Putin the world’s biggest war criminal. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Putin a “predator,” all creating such bad blood that Putin considers the peace process all but dead. Macron, Merz and Starmer think if the EU cedes any Ukrainian territory to Putin it would embolden him to go after Poland, the Balltic States, possibly Finland or Sweden. Putin calls European fears “hysteria” because he has no plans to pick a fight with NATO and take any European territory. Yet Zelensky routinely tells the EU that they must do more to stop Russia’s killing field.
Zelensky thinks if he can highlight Russian Russian atrocities on a daily basis he can get the EU to pony up more cash-and-arms. But Trump knows that Zelensky was given every opportunity to end the war but decided instead to keep it going. So, if Zelensky wants to trade blows with Putin daily, what does he expect Putin to do? Stop the war? Zelensky has no one to blame for the ongoing carnage and destruction but himself for failing to make a full-faith effort to bring about peace. Zelensky refuses to engage in a realistic approach to peacemaking, shunning Trump’s efforts to cut a deal with Putin. When Trump said recently to Zelensky that he could get back all his territory, he was sarcastic, letting Zelensky know the chance to beating the Russian Federation was slim-and-none. Yet Zelensky acts like he’s on the same footing as the Russian Federation.
Medvedev’s remarks were designed to remind the EU that they don’t really want to take on the Kremlin to back Zelensky’s futile effort to get his land back. Putin isn’t unrealistic seeking to keep at least some of the sovereign territory he’s seized over the last three-and-a-half years. Zelensky had peace at hand with Trump but prayed on the EU’s insecurities when it came to Putin. Poland and the Baltic states still remember the days when t heir military were no match for the Kremlin. In reality, the EU wants no part of war with Russia, despite all the tough talk from Merz and von der Leyen. When it comes to Russian incursions near the Ukrainian border whether in Poland or Estonia, the EU has made a federal case against Russia. Putin was right telling the EU to tone down the hysteria, recognize the fact that Russia is no threat to Europe or anyone else.
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John M. Curtis writes politically netura commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
