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It's a completely different system really - Russia with it's ruler in Moscow commanding a large army and dictating what happens vs the EU with no central army,
by tim333 9mo ago
It's a completely different system really - Russia with it's ruler in Moscow commanding a large army and dictating what happens vs the EU with no central army, no central ruler, governed by local democracies and human rights laws and the like.
It doesn't fit with their way of thinking much really. With Trump they can kind of say we get this bit of Ukraine you get that, we both get rich from iffy minerals deals but the EU doesn't work like that.
Kaja Kallas for example recently announced "the first €10 million for the establishment of a Special Tribunal for Crimes of Aggression." She wants to prosecute the Russians for war crimes, not make a deal with them. So you can understand why they are not keen to chat there.
Not sure how that all works out.
- drysine 9mo ago>the EU doesn't work like that It does work like that. The EU just plays a zero-sum game. "As part of its strategy to secure supplies of critical raw materials, the European Union signed an EU-Ukrainian strategic Partnership on Critical Minerals with Ukraine in July 2021. This agreement, which covers around a hundred projects, aims to secure the supply of ten essential raw materials. It forms part of the European Action Plan on Critical Raw Materials, which seeks to diversify sources of supply and reduce dependence on suppliers from outside the EU. This partnership brings together several major players, including the European Raw Materials Alliance, a platform that aims to ensure a sustainable and secure supply of raw materials for the European industry, and the European Battery Alliance, a strategic initiative to build a competitive and sustainable battery value chain in Europe." [0] [0] https://regard-est.com/ukraine-critical-materials-a-strategic-challenge-for-europe https://regard-est.com/ukraine-critical-materials-a-strategi...