On 17 August 2023, Former French President Sarkozy made a test balloon for accept Russian objectives.

1. Accept Russian territorial gains
2. Ukraine must remain neutral
3. Ukraine cannot become member of NATO.
4. Ukraine cannot even become member of the EU.

Probably, Macron, Scholz, and others have silently agreed to let Sarkozy put up this perspective, in order to test the reaction. Sarkozy is unpopular anyway, so Sarkozy is the perfect persona to send up this “test-balloon” to see if it gets shot down or if it floats. And it floats.

Sarkozy made his statements 10 days ago which is already a long time in politics. And nothing happened. Apart from the programmatic outcries from Kiev, no major politicians in the EU pushed back on Sarkozy’s points. Not even from Germany’s chancellor Scholz or France’s president Macron. This signals that Sarkozy’s views have silent and wide support in the EU. EU leaders who still publicly support the hopeless Ukraine war have silently had more than enough of it. 

For the past 10 days since Sarkozy made his comments, the US has tried to ignore Sarkozy and those many he speaks for in the EU. But as Sarkozy’s views keep hanging unopposed in Europe, the US deep state cannot ignore it anymore. Only now, very late, a pushback comes against Sarkozy’s comments – not from Europe, but from one of the US deep state media, the New York Times (NYT).

It is revealing to notice the tone of the NYT piece. The US neocons speaking through the NYT are hurt, angered, defenseless – and scared. As war fatigue grips the EU political environment both left and right, the tone in the NYT shows that US neocons feel betrayed that the Europeans are losing appetite on sacrificing themselves for the US imperial project in Ukraine. And we are already talking about very important political voices speaking for broad European populations both left and right, who go against the Ukraine war.

Voices like the French Socialist Ségolène Royal, a former presidential candidate.

Voices like former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who is a heavyweight in chancellor Scholz’ own Social Democratic party SPD. Voices like the party “Alternative for Germany”, which due its outspoken resistance to the Ukraine war has become a broad popular party of no less than 21%.

The war-happy mainstream media still try to outcast “Alternative for Germany” as a “far right party”, but the fact is, that “Alternative for Germany” has become mainstream – not because Germans have become “fascist”, but on the contrary, because Germans have become fed up with sacrificing their own country for a war which destroys Ukraine and goes against German interests in prosperity and peace in Europe. See this.