Brussels issued warning over Biden agenda as Europe set to ‘pick up pieces’ of new US wars

Brussels may have to ‘pick up pieces’ from Biden says insider

The warning came from George Szamuely, The Gaggle host, as he told RT News he believes EU leaders should be wary of Joe Biden’s war agenda. Asked whether he believes the relationship between Brussels and the US could ever be restored to pre-Donald Trump levels, Mr Szamuely claimed the bloc may even miss the “rude” and “disruptive” Republican President. 

He said: “It will all depend on what this Biden team will want to do and how the Europeans will react to it.

“If the Biden team will want to renew the fights in the Middle East, if it wants to continue with its policies in Ukraine, the ones conducted by the Obama people which were antagonising Russia, and again through NATO’s expansion antagonise Russia, then I think the European may well look back on the Trump years as not really such bad years at all.

“Trump was very rude, a disruptive sort of person, but on the other hand, they weren’t that bad.

“He didn’t make many demands on the Europeans. Above all, he wasn’t asking them to get involved in new wars.

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“And that’s always the problem for Europe that the United States is going to start all sorts of new wars and then Europe has to really pick up the pieces and the consequences, whether through refugees flow, terrorism and so on.

“That didn’t happen under Trump but I think they should certainly worry about whether this is going to happen now with the Biden people.”

The US President-elect wrote in his memoir ‘Promise Me, Dad’ that he could not count on the EU while serving as Vice President during Barack Obama’s eight-year term in the Oval Office.

In one extract, he referred to a call he had with Arseniy Yatsenyuk ‒ the former Prime Minister of Ukraine ‒ shortly after the Dignity Revolution in 2014.

His priority was to make sure Ukrainian sovereignty was preserved in the face of aggression from Russian President Vladimir Putin but Mr Biden feared he could not count on support in Brussels.

He wrote: “The European Union and NATO were likely to abandon Ukraine as a hopeless cause.

“The country would be pulled back into Russia’s toxic orbit.

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“The revolution of Dignity would come to nothing.”

Mr Biden did not give up, though, and the EU did come to Ukraine’s rescue eventually.

The soon-to-be US President did everything he could to make sure Dignity’s goals were secured ‒ calling it a “remarkable people’s protest”.

He explained: “Ukrainians seemed about to lose their fight for democracy and independence.

“Putin had used the instability of the unfolding revolution as an opportunity to seize, by military force, a part of Ukraine called Crimea.”

And in the face of this threat, he was integral in keeping Mr Yatsenyuk and new President Petro Poroshenko in a coalition against Putin’s wishes.

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It came after Ukraine’s parliament voted to remove pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovich when his forces killed more than 100 protesters and wounded scores more.

Mr Yanukovich fled to Russia and Mr Poroshenko, who supported the Dignity protests, was elected on the promise to take Kiev away from Moscow’s orbit and return Crimea.

Six years on, Ukraine has successfully escaped from the Kremlin’s clutches, its drive to one day join the EU is in its constitution and its citizens can travel through the bloc visa-free.

But Crimea is still occupied, several lives are still lost every month and more Ukrainians face poverty now than before the revolution.

In 2014, only 15 percent lived below the poverty line. By 2018, the World Bank reported that the number had risen to 25 percent.

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