Josep Borrell, the outgoing EU foreign policy chief, seems to have done it again, saying out loud, in a disingenuous way, what most of his set keep to themselves. In 2022, he managed to articulate his view of the Global South, with his address to the European Diplomatic Academy: “Europe is a garden…. The rest of the world is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden.”
Now, when Spain’s “20 Minutos” asked him how to get out of the Ukraine war, he made clear how little sovereignty Ukraine has in a proxy war: “Many people want the war to end as soon as possible. First of all, the Ukrainians themselves. But the important thing is how. If we stop supporting Ukraine, in a fortnight the war will be over and Putin will achieve his goals. But do we want this for the Ukrainians, and for the security of ourselves, the Europeans?”
