Tagged: European Union

Russia / Europe / Ukraine

 by Jaffa Levy

The West Is Negotiating With Itself, Not With Russia

The Berlin talks produced an “Article 5 like” security offer for Ukraine that sounds historic but collapses under scrutiny. Europe and the United States are negotiating posture and optics among themselves, while Russia rejects the core premises. This is war management dressed up as peace.

Opinion / Europe

 by Jaffa Levy

Europe as Collateral: How Brussels Turned Russia’s Reserves into a Permanent War-Finance Mechanism

The European Commission wants to raise a huge loan for Ukraine backed on frozen Russian reserves, using emergency law to bypass national vetoes. Brussels calls it solidarity and insists nothing is being confiscated. In practice it weaponises custody, turns Euroclear into a litigation magnet and tells the rest of the world that reserves held in Europe are safe only until politics changes.