Paris, May 26, 2026. S.G. Kazolias

Europe’s march towards confrontation with Russia, following the US agenda these past ten years, is irrational, self-defeating, unnecessary and mind boggling. A century after The Great War, to my astonishment, Europe is sleepwalking into another potentially senseless slaughter. I gave European leaders too much credit for being reasonable and rational.

I was wrong . I thought Europeans were more rational and intelligent.

I thought the West would be smart enough to look for the peace dividend at the end of the Cold War. When the Berlin Wall fell, and Russia pulled back its military inside its own borders, I believed NATO would respect Baker’s word, and not advance east to Russia’s border. Ah, the ‘Unipolar moment!’ When the US was sure it could impose its will on the world.¹

I thought Europe would be smart enough to see NATO was more a liability rather than an asset after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact. Clinton transformed NATO from a defensive organization, which should have disappeared along with the Warsaw Pact, into a military alliance of aggression to impose western and especially US dominance, under the fake pretence of ‘Humanitarian Intervention.’²  With the lie of defending people, we got regime change operations, mass murders through drone strikes and bombings, and NATO interventions in Libya, Serbia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan …³

This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, General Clark said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran.”

In 2014, when the EU, the US and UK backed a coup in Kiev and the US went over the Europeans’ head to impose an ultranationalist government with neo-NAZIs and Bandera Fascists in charge, I said on France24 TV that  “Europe will not fight for Ukraine,” the most corrupt country in Europe. I was wrong. Apparently, the leaders of Germany, France and the UK are itching for a fight and and are directly involved in the Ukraine war.⁴

When Russia said they would not have Ukraine in NATO, which I understand, and they made it clear that they would fight to stop it as far back as the early 2000s, I thought Europeans would be smart enough to know there was no interest in poking the bear. They could easily do business with Russia and eastern Ukraine without pushing NATO east and  bringing Ukraine into the EU against Russia’s economic interests. Yes, I thought the EU was negotiating in good faith about getting the Ukrainian ultras to stop persecuting and murdering ethnic minorities, especially Russians. I was wrong.

I was also wrong when I thought Ukraine would go along with the April 2022 ‘Istanbul Accord’ which would have left Donbas in Ukraine with an autonomous status like Sud Tirol in northern Italy or Corsica in France, and neutral like Austria and Switzerland. It made perfect sense, but NATO would have none of it and Zelensky and his corrupt Oligarchs sided with the western war mob. I thought Europe had the good sense to see they were committing economic suicide rather than doing profitable business with Russia and a neutral Ukraine.

I am not wrong to say Ukraine was defeated in this war (two years ago), even though the Russians are taking their sweet time about finishing it to reduce casualties. That is about to change.  If Europe continues to follow the US (no difference between Biden and Trump, Democrat or Republican), it is the old continent that will suffer the most. 

My error was to believe Europe’s leaders did not want war. I was wrong.

1. Clinton’s role in preserving NATO and converting it into a military machine of aggression is well documented. Let us not forget that Germany’s Greens backed the illegal and unjustified war against Serbia. ↩︎
2. Since the long list of wars of aggression and bombings following the Kosovo War, they quickly had to drop the pretence of ‘Humanitarian Intervention‘ although it was tried in Libya. It didn’t stick when the country became a failed state and cut-throat Islamists took over large swaths of the country, destablizing Africa until today. ↩︎
3. It is clear to me that the Israel Lobby and Zionism had much to do with the selection of targets and the wars. Who can forget General Wesley Clark’s 2003 warning that the US planned to hit seven countries, all of which were on Israel’s ‘hit list.’ ↩︎
4. In December 2022 former French President François Hollande and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted they never expected the Minsk Accords, which they brokered, to work. NATO countries were just buying time. That time was used to build the Ukrainian military into NATO’s second largest military (along with police and militias) after Turkey, with a reported 750,000 men in arms in 2022 and 60,000 amassed on the front with the break away regions of Donbas. ↩︎