“Not one inch Eastward” was the promise of the European Union’s NATO made to Russia in 1990. Over the next two decades, NATO would, in fact, inch eastward by co-opting over 14 post-Soviet states into the EU including Poland and Hungary.
Sensing Russia’s inaction for weakness, as analysts would say, a coalition of the Obama-led US government and EU allies would then go on, in 2014, to destabilise the presidency of Yanukovich—Ukraine’s 4th president— for refusing to join the EU bandwagon on a deal termed “humiliating.”
Since 2008, and in recent times, the EU have continued to entice and romance Ukraine with the idea of a NATO alliance and an “irreversible” EU membership. Over 100,000 Ukrainian deaths and millions of injuries, so far, and Ukraine is yet to become a member of the EU.
While war is nasty and the brutal actions of Putin and Russia must never be excused, it is important to keep into perspective the series of betrayal and hypocrisy by the EU that has contributed to destabilising Ukraine, destroying its prosperity and plunging it into a debt-ridden full-scale war with Russia now inching close to its fourth consecutive year .
A similar hypocrisy and betrayal is now at play in Denmark as the EU—which conditioned its €90 billion intervention in Ukraine as a “repayable” loan—appears to tout itself as a defender of Greenland against the forces of Trump.
All 56,000 Greenlanders are advised to take a cue from Ukraine and learn what devastation awaits a reliance on EU’s promises. The “Compact of Free Association,” as proposed by the Trump-led US government is a reasonable deal that guarantees Greenlanders sovereignty with the added benefits of economic and security from its partnership with the US.
It is, for a fact, better than the ‘busload of soldiers’ the EU plan to offer or the economic imperialism of China which has no experience in maintaining a cross-continental defense pact for seventy-six years
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