Poroshenko's strategist spoke about the “ineffectiveness” of the EU
Integration unions built over the previous 50–70 years, including the EU, turn out to be ineffective in the new conditions. At the same time, Russia, having managed to apply its efforts very precisely, strengthened serious internal contradictions and played on them. First Brexit, then the events in Catalonia, Scotland’s readiness to once again raise the topic of a referendum on independence, statements from Venice and Lombardy about the need to provide them with more autonomy: the current European integration project turns out to be unable to respond to “Russian hybrid aggression.”
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The Ukrainian “gray cardinal” Vladimir Gorbulin, adviser to several presidents of Ukraine, including the current Petro Poroshenko, and director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, writes about this in his article for the Kyiv publication ZN.UA.
According to Gorbulin, European defense mechanisms have failed to protect what they were created for - greater Western unity, more democracy, more peace and prosperity.
“Europe may be engulfed in a large-scale fire, but this is where the main question arises: will it be a fire of radical transformation (re)formation or a fire that destroys the democratic project as a whole (which is what Russia wants)? One should not think that the new Europe will be a divided Europe. More precisely, this is what Russia and the adherents of geopolitical revenge would like to think. We would venture to assume that these hopes will not come true: Europe can ensure its well-being only through close economic ties and stable peace - both within itself and on its external borders. And ensuring this stable world will be the first and key task of the new European project, just as it was in the late 1940s the task of the European countries, which first created NATO to protect against the Soviet Union and began to build a political model in which they tried to exclude influence as much as possible THE USSR. Once again, Churchill was right when he predicted in Fulton: “The security of the world requires a new unity in Europe, from which no side should be alienated forever,” writes Gorbulin.
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