“Neither the handing over of arms nor sanctions save lives; on the contrary, contribute to the escalation and prolongation of the conflict and they bring more suffering & rdquor ;. This statement about the war in Ukraine, although it may seem so, is not by Ione Belarra or Pablo Iglesias. who speaks is the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Péter Szijjártó, at the cooperation meeting of the Security Council of the UN and the EU, which was attended last Thursday by 25 foreign ministers from the European Union. Hungary, governed by the far-right Viktor Orbán, is the EU country closest to the postulates of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Departing from the common position of the EU, Szijjártó also called for “an immediate ceasefire”, without conditions, as Russia wants, to start “peace talks”.
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Two days later, on Saturday, Belarra called in Madrid for “a ceasefire & rdquor ;, for which he demanded that the same effort be made that is being made to send weapons to Ukraine. Podemos has always opposed the shipment of arms and this time its general secretary formulated it like this: “First they told us that we were not going to send offensive material. Later they told us that yes, we had to send anti-aircraft missiles. Later, that we were going to send tanks. And now, that we have to send fighters. What’s next, Spanish soldiers in Ukraine? It is clear that having contributed to the escalation of the war has been a mistake.”
Belarra, it would be missing more, also condemned “Putin’s criminal aggression & rdquor ;, although the entire policy of Podemos before the war does nothing but favor the claims of the Russian autocrat. Podemos calls for an immediate ceasefire without taking into account the war situation, with eastern Ukraine still occupied by Russian forces, nor does he ever distinguish between the attacked and the aggressor. The criticism of the shipment of arms, moreover, only reaches the West. Never Russia’s allies, such as Iran, which supplies Putin’s troops with drones. This false pacifism that treats the invader and the invaded equally only benefits the invader.