President Macron convened some 30 ‘willing’ governments in Paris with the official aim of ‘building a solid peace for Ukraine and Europe.’ This was in fact not a peace summit but a war summit. Before the summit, Macron phoned Trump. He then held a press conference with Zelensky, declaring that ‘Russia shows a willingness to continue aggression’. During the summit, Macron said that “Moscow is pretending to negotiate” and that is why sanctions will be maintained, a decision that all participants agreed on.
Macron then announced the creation of a “reassurance force” to be “deployed in strategic locations in Ukraine in the event of peace,” and that France and Britain would send a team to Ukraine to train Kiev’s future army. Italian President Meloni reaffirmed “continued support for Ukraine in the Euro-Atlantic context, including on the basis of a model that can be partly modelled on Article 5 of the Washington Treaty“.
Since this states that if a NATO member is attacked, all other members must intervene in its defence, this means that Ukraine is de facto considered a member of NATO. The Russian Foreign Ministry warns that ‘the deployment of NATO countries’ troops in Ukraine risks provoking a direct military confrontation between Russia and NATO’.
All this hinders and effectively nullifies the agreement between the Presidents of the US and Russia to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea, so that both Russia and Ukraine can export grain, fertiliser and other products by sea. The US and Russia, despite having reached such an agreement, remain distant on other important issues. While the US would like to take control of all Ukrainian nuclear facilities, including the Zaporozhye NPP now under Russian control, Moscow says it will never hand over the NPP to Ukraine or any other country. The Zaporozhye nuclear power plant is therefore at risk of being hit again by Ukrainian forces, putting the whole of Europe at risk.
In the Middle East, the US and Russia pursue diametrically opposed goals. The US, in synergy with Israel, is strengthening its military presence in the region and attacking Yemen with the aim of striking Iran, while Russia is implementing a strategic cooperation agreement with Iran. In East and South-East Asia, the US is deploying forces and armaments, including nuclear weapons, against China, Russia’s ally with which it forms the BRICS backbone.
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This article was originally published in Italian on Grandangolo, Byoblu TV.
Manlio Dinucci, award-winning author, geopolitical analyst and geographer, Pisa, Italy. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
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