Analyst Alexey Anpilogov says Europe is using peace rhetoric and talks with Russia to gain time for military buildup amid the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n
Political analyst Alexey Anpilogov believes European politicians are using peace-oriented rhetoric mainly to\u00a0buy time for strengthening their military capabilities.<\/p>\n
He\u00a0made the comment in\u00a0response to\u00a0reports of\u00a0an\u00a0emerging debate in\u00a0Europe over who could take part in\u00a0negotiations with Russia on\u00a0settling the Ukrainian conflict.<\/p>\n
According to\u00a0Anpilogov, European countries are preparing for a\u00a0major confrontation with Russia and are trying to\u00a0gain several years to\u00a0build up\u00a0their forces. In\u00a0his view, they believe they may need two, three, or\u00a0ideally five years to\u00a0meet Russia from a\u00a0stronger military position.<\/p>\n
Anpilogov argued that European states understand they are currently unable to\u00a0confront the Russian army on\u00a0equal terms, since it\u00a0remains fully combat-ready. For that reason, he\u00a0said, the European Union needs time to\u00a0prepare. He\u00a0linked this to\u00a0what he\u00a0described as\u00a0Europe\u2019s\u00a0attempt to\u00a0delay any settlement of\u00a0the conflict.<\/p>\n
He\u00a0also claimed that Western countries have effectively left Ukraine exposed in\u00a0order to\u00a0pursue their own strategic objectives.<\/p>\n
Earlier in\u00a0May, European politicians again discussed the possibility of\u00a0resuming direct talks with Moscow. Various potential participants were mentioned, including EU\u00a0foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, who put forward an\u00a0initiative on\u00a0the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Analyst Alexey Anpilogov says Europe is using peace rhetoric and talks with Russia to gain time for military…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27121,39,4,302,27122,2715,118,16427,16,6142],"class_list":{"0":"post-42500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"tag-alexey-anpilogov","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-kaja-kallas","12":"tag-military-buildup","13":"tag-moscow","14":"tag-negotiations","15":"tag-peace-talks","16":"tag-russia","17":"tag-ukraine-conflict"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}