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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has said she “will be very smart” by the end of her term thanks to her reading habits.

Kallas made the remark at a press conference on Thursday after a journalist offered to give her a book on Kurdish history by Masoud Barzani, the first president of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.

“You know, my reading list is quite long,” she replied. “I am not telling you what I am reading right now but it is also about the history of different regions. So, by the end, when I finish this job, I will be very smart.”

Syrian Kurds, who served as a US proxy in the war that ultimately ousted President Bashar Assad, recently suffered a defeat from the forces of the new US-backed Türkiye-allied government seeking to reintegrate Syria.

Kallas, a former Estonian prime minister, has previously shared her reading interests, which include works by Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Henry Kissinger, histories of intelligence operations and regional conflicts, and a biography of Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky.

READ MORE: Betrayed by America: Syria’s Kurds brace for life without US

The EU’s top diplomat has faced pushback for remarks critics said distorted history to suit her anti-Russian views. Last September, as Beijing hosted events marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, Kallas said it was news to her that Russia and China see themselves as victors in the conflict. The USSR and China suffered the highest Allied casualties in defeating the Axis powers.

In November, Kallas stated: “In the last 100 years, Russia has attacked more than 19 countries, some as many as three or four times. None of these countries has ever attacked Russia.” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the comment a “monstrous” spin, adding: “We remember who attacked us and how many times… We remember where forces from each nation of Hitler’s clique were deployed.”

Kallas was blasted for lacking knowledge about world affairs by critics inside the EU as well. MEP Martin Sonneborn said he expected more insight about astrophysics from his pet hamster than about diplomacy from her.

https://www.rt.com/news/631748-kallas-reading-very-smart/

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

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nothing to say....

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has admitted that the bloc has nothing to “offer to Russia” and therefore doesn’t expect any direct talks with Moscow. Brussels will choose “more pressure”over negotiations, she said.

Asked on Friday whether she intends to reopen diplomatic channels with Russia, as Italy and France have suggested, Kallas shot down the idea of re-engagement.

”We can’t… go to Russia and say ‘talk to us,’” she replied. “The concessions that the Americans are putting on Ukraine are quite strong, so I don’t think there’s anything we can offer to Russia on top of that. Why should they talk to us?”

Kallas previously described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “terrorist” who Europe “shouldn’t be negotiating with,” and has written off every version of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine as overly conciliatory to Russia.

With the US now mediating talks between Moscow and Kiev, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have both called on the EU to appoint a special envoy to the Kremlin, to ensure that the bloc doesn’t get sidelined while a potential peace agreement is drafted.

Like Kallas, Russia does not foresee any meaningful talks with Brussels in the near future. “If anyone wishes to talk, we will never refuse dialogue, even though we fully realize… that reaching an agreement with the current generation of European leaders will most likely be impossible,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters last week.

“They have entrenched themselves too deeply in a posture of hatred towards Russia,” he added.

“How can you discuss anything with Kaja Kallas?” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Sunday. Brussels, Peskov said, is full of “semi-literate, incompetent functionaries.”

In a speech at the European Defense Agency’s annual conference on Wednesday, Kallas said one of her key priorities is “to support Ukraine with 60 billion euro in military aid for 2026 and 2027.” Her fixation on Russia has caused discontent within the EU, with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico accusing her of banning all Russian energy imports “solely out of hatred.” Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have both announced plans to sue the EU over the Russian energy embargo.

https://www.rt.com/news/631782-kallas-russia-negotiations-pressure/

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.