The U.S. and European press along with Biden Administration officials are quickly attacking and attempting to discredit any international leading figure or country proposing to mediate between Russia and Ukraine.
Both the London Telegraph and The Hill have out March 14 hit pieces on Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett since his series of telephone calls with Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy seeking to mediate. The Telegraph called Bennett “a disaster for the West"; and The Hill started its article with the completely unsupported statement that Bennett has “flipped” Israel’s position from neutral to pro-Russia. Ukraine officials now will not speak even to Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, who has denounced Russia’s military action.
CNBC ran an out-of-the-blue hit piece today on Angela Merkel—who has thus far held her silence on the war in Ukraine—calling her completely discredited since Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reversed her policy, and she “made Germany dependent on Russia,” etc. Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder is being denounced across the German media after meeting with Putin. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been attacked in the South African press and criticized directly by State Department officials Molly Phee and Eric O’Brien for having made a “BRICS to BRICS” phone call to Putin, and one to Zelenskyy. The list goes on to include former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, Turkish President Erdogan, and others.
