Éric Denécé, director of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies
Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
Washington is pragmatic and will abandon Europe with the Ukrainian conflict they caused, said Éric Denécé, director of the French Centre for Intelligence Studies. Likewise, he stressed that Russia had no choice but to launch its special military operation against Ukraine.
The expert noted that it is impossible not to notice the US’ role in unleashing the conflict in Eastern Europe but stressed that policymakers in Washington are very pragmatic and will not get directly involved in a battlefield that is not favourable to them.
“When they notice things are not going well, they do not hesitate to turn back and do a 180-degree turn. They are preparing for this – it is not yet seen, but I think it will soon become clear – they were preparing to give him a damn warm-up to Europe and say: this is your conflict now,” Denécé told the French network TVL on April 20.
Furthermore, the analyst emphasised that the US greatly contributed to the Russia-Ukraine war, among other things, with its NATO enlargement policy and the start of fighting in Donbass in 2014. He stressed that Russia’s intervention “did not come out of nowhere.”
Regarding the current phase of the conflict, the director lamented that the Europeans are facing a problem they do not want.
“And from now on, we Europeans will find that we have to deal with a situation that we did not cause and that we did not want,” he stressed.
After months of discussion, the US House of Representatives approved a bill on April 20 to provide almost $61 billion to Ukraine—$23.3 billion to replace defence articles and services, $13.8 billion to purchase advanced weapons systems, and $11.3 billion to US military operations in the region.
For his part, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov declared that the new US aid package to Ukraine will not change the situation on the battlefield but will instead increase the number of Ukrainian deaths.
This aid package was approved amid statements by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine would lose without Western help. Also, in mid-April, European allies could not agree on supplying Kiev with air defence systems.
According to the president of the State Duma (Lower House of the Russian Parliament), Viacheslav Volodin,
“The US no longer believes in the victory of the Kiev regime. Therefore, they are ready to give only money on credit, which Ukraine will have to return, or not even their own money when it comes to the transfer of Russian assets to Kiev.”
Washington is desperately attempting to freeze the conflict to fix the current situation. Western media has been pushing the false narrative of a stalemate since Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive in the summer of 2023. In fact, Ukraine’s situation is so precarious that the US does not necessarily want its victory but instead for the country to serve as a constant source of problems for Russia and even the EU.
The US aid package was paralysed for months due to conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, and after receiving approval from the House of Representatives, the bill has now been moved to the Senate for a vote. Subsequently, it will be presented to US President Joe Biden for his signature. Once the bill is signed, the law will come into force.
It is recalled that in the first weeks after the start of the special military operation, Zelensky seemingly appeared more willing to negotiate, but under pressure from Western allies, including the US, he decided to give up on a peace agreement. Now, these very same allies that encouraged the Kiev regime to continue fighting a futile war are not providing, or are incapable of providing, the means for Ukraine to fight Russia.
As Denécé highlighted, the US is slowly abandoning Ukraine so that it will become exclusively a European problem. With Donald Trump leading the polls ahead of the US Presidential elections in November, Washington’s abandonment of Kiev will only be sped up if the former president is to return to the White House.
This would be especially disastrous for the European Union, which has destroyed its economy due to the boomerang effect of the US-led sanctions on Russia, has exhausted its weapon stocks for no advantage to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and is dealing with millions of Ukrainian refugees. Yet, Europe will only have itself to blame for blindly following Washington’s reckless Russophobic policies, which were obviously only going to hurt the bloc and not Russia or the US, who, as Denécé highlighted, “do not hesitate to turn back and do a 180-degree turn” when things are not going well.
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the opposition to ukraine aid was not democrat vs republican. it was isolations versus internationalist.
trump is now channeling ronald reagan. reagan had his target: the evil empire. trump has the axis of evil.
biden is a loser who seeks stalemate.trump is all about being victorious. he backed the aid package that just passed congress. he will back israel, ukraine and taiwan against the axis of evil: russia, china, iran and north korea.
excuse me? the majority of axis powers are now in nato and are our bitches! so please stick to facts: we aermicans are the new axis of evil, we have them all under our belly! germany, italy, japan! heil nazo!
you seem to be talking about historical things. in today’s us rhetoric, arab countries have been called the “axis-of-evil” term. biden himself said.
you are axis of stupidity—too inferior to qualify as evil
trump’s just scamming the rinos for support until after he’s elected, doomquat.
we americans do this every single time, and the stupid guillable idiotic eurotards fall for it over and over and over. we did it with adolf, and we will do it with ursula. both are the same nazis that belive our lies!
hahahahaha usa! usa! usa!
guillable idiots, you will get another world war on your soil and the feminized men that you have in france, germany, and britain will bend over like before!
and once we are done, you will fall for it for a fourth time!
just like their israeli masters, u.s. politicians and u.s. military are bullies than when confronted by a determined adversary. back down, de-escalate and/or just run away with their tails up their ass like has happened in vietnam, afghanistan and now iran.
if those imbeciles think they can play the same borish games with china they have another thing coming
the anglozionazi empire of filth is the most disgusting collection of garbage ever to walk upright and none of that collection of filth is worse than the ruling nazi cabal from germanistan that has for the third time unleashed a war on urupp in just over a century. there are still those that imagine that nazi$ and their joo banksters and anglo demons are not in this together. as the zio psychos genocide the innocent people of gaza, none applaud louder than the psycho trash in berlin.
russia has been drained by ukrainian resistance…genius chess move by usa…heheheh
which resistance bitch, nazis are being killed left and right by the 1000s each day
dont bother with him, he is just a stupid british nazi, and he is jealous that the russian woman dont want him.
he should come to america and do me once im a girl after the transition, i can teach him some manners and bring him to go to the frontlines and dont be such a cowardly bitch anymore :)
not enough.
funny how they keep rolling up town after town then. gee, what would they’ve done if only half-drained?
kiev is the new kabul
zelensky has his suitcases packed and on standby. blue for his clothes and pictures of mama and yellow for the hundred dollar bills.
hmm, abandoning their vassal states to their own devices? that would be *very* interesting to see…
thats what we do! we just use you proxy nazis, just like we did with the german nazis. once this is over, we will continiue to do trade with the russians, and then sell you the bought russian goods on a premium, and you stupid eurotards will buy with king dollar, as your euro will be done.
hahahaha guillable clowns! usa! usa! usa!
they still have to get the last remaining profitable companies to move to texas, then they can cut the europeons and their dillweed garden loose.
it was likely expected to be a war of economic and political attrition similar to the soviet afghan conflict. russian military might caught nato in a huge mistake with the higher attrition rate shifting to the west.
european leaders are responsible for not implementing the minsk agreements, so don’t try to shift all the blame to the us. unless, possibly those leaders were “forced” by the us to dismiss (abrogate) the agreements? well then, admit to it and start acting independently to stop supporting kiev and reverse nato expansion.
has merkel committed hari kiri yet? haven’t heard a peep from her. somebody better do a house check.
wrong analysis, correct conclusion, usa is gonna leave not because the battlefield is not favorable (which is true anyway) but because this is not usa interest to wage that war (blinken said it – but thats not the reason i think so). usa interest is to confront china, not russia
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ha ha, those ukrops will be telling the europeons that they sacrificed themselves to keep the europeons safe and they owe them a house and free fixin’s for life now. never a scam left unturned for that crowd.
jon, afraid you are a bit off. your comment of “isolations versus internationalist” is partially right. being wise, smart and with vision does not make someone an ‘isolationist’.