“Attacking hospitals for children. This is Russia today,” said an incredulous Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting yesterday.
Russian leader and war criminal Vladimir Putin is evil. He will stop at nothing to succeed in his illegal invasion and occupation of Ukraine, a free and independent nation that represents no threat whatsoever to Russia. This includes killing babies among other repeated atrocities.
Frederiksen urged NATO heads of state to get even tougher with Putin. “The only language he understands is power, nothing else,” she said.
The Danish PM and other NATO heads of state are in Washington this week to commemorate the alliance’s 75th anniversary. It’s a pleasure to note that NATO has rarely been stronger or more unified, thanks to the little creep in Moscow.
Putin has been counting on an erosion in U.S. and European support, and he has precedent on his side. He knows our predilection for losing interest, growing fatigued, and throwing in the towel, which is his most fervent wish.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke to us later yesterday and could not have been more aligned with Frederiksen. “I don’t see any signs of the European commitment wavering” aside from one or two nations. Of course, one of those recalcitrants, Hungary, is led by Putin proxy Viktor Orbán.
Frederiksen cautioned, however, that NATO is and has been “too slow and too naïve on Russia.” She punctuated the comment by adding on the subject of supplying Ukraine with more weapons and assets, “We have to speed up and scale up. I agree with the U.S. President who says we need to do more.”
She added, “Our sense of urgency is growing but it’s not enough.” After all, she ominously concluded, “I don’t see any signs of Russia stopping with Ukraine.”
