Decision on war or a diplomatic solution was taken in Biden's war council [NSC] with advice fro the Pentagon. The rest, 2x Brussels, NATO members and EU Council, followed the war rhetoric of Joe and Jens .... Boris was just a nasty agent provocateur for war between NATO and Russia.

Naturally the Minsk agreements were torpedoed by Lviv Kyiv as per instructions from the White House. The U.S. were not participant in Minsk. Their vision on Minsk was quite aggressive equal to building Nord Stream

'Sapere aude'

Belgian MEP adds that 'a united Europe, certainly on defense matters, would make an enormous difference' in fight against Putin.
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Verhofstadt told LBC that the "brutal invasion" by Russia "has nothing to do with the extension of NATO, it has nothing to do with ... the European Union. It's really an attempt by Putin to restore the old Soviet Union."
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Verhofstadt was speaking on the third anniversary of the U.K. leaving the EU. He said he hoped that Britain will one day rejoin the bloc and that Ukraine can also join, "why not within five years?"