In Sarajevo, on this morning of August 28, 1995, five mortar shots devastate the Markalé market. Assessment: 37 dead and 90 injured. Attributed to the Serbian army, this massacre, which then amazes the international community, encourages it to intervene. After an intense bombing campaign carried out by NATO, the Dayton agreements put an end four months later, to the war in Bosnia.
This April 13, on Sunday of the twigs, the two Russian missiles Iskander who devastated the city of Soumy, in the northeast of Ukraine, in turn amazed opinion. At least 34 inhabitants have lost their lives in this unfair attack condemned by the great Western leaders … with one exception, and not the least: the President of the United States.
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Unlike an Emmanuel Macron or a Giorgia Meloni, Donald Trump has not criticized Moscow for this infamy. “I was told they [les Russes] made a mistake, “he just let go, without specifying if he held this information from the Pentagon … or the Kremlin.
-Donald Trump’s complicence
Complant with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump is nonetheless unable to bring him to the negotiating table. Unlike a Bill Clinton, who had worked with his European allies to bring peace to the Balkans, the American president is not commonplace with them. Too busy inflicting prohibitive customs duties, he does not seek to develop a negotiation strategy with them with Russia. No more than he really tries to force her to stop her war. Worse, he was dictated his tempo by his Russian counterpart. Thus, on April 11, his emissary Steve Witkoff did not seem to be anything from the chief of the Kremlin during their meeting in Moscow-the third in two months. Unlike Putin who wins a precious thing: time. While making his interlocutors shrens advanced advances, he progresses on the battlefield. And, as some military experts suspect, he prepares a new offensive … near the city of Soumy, decidedly martyrdom.
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What about Europe, in all of this? Even though Witkoff was breaking his teeth in Moscow, the twenty-seven announced military aid of 21 billion euros. And Friedrich Merz, the next German Chancellor, was considering this Sunday to deliver his formidable Taurus long -range missiles to kyiv.
This is the only good news in this political sequence. Europe takes responsibility. Europe sets out. Europe is emancipating. And in a way, she can thank Donald Trump.
