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EU prepares sanctions on China due to its support of Russia's war against Ukraine

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When are they going to sanction Israel for genocide? That's right, Never. Why? they ain't white like Ukrainians.

Square_Level4633

Given how incompetent the Eu is, not unlikely. Although that source that refers to politico is pure propaganda.

BartD_

It's Yahoo article,

Copied from a Ukrainian news outlet that is funded by NATO--[by which I mean literally by NATO the organization](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Pravda),

Reporting on a comment made by an unnamed EU official,

To an unnamed reporter at politico.eu, a political gossip rag.

Chinese officials likely have potential responses prepare. Let's wait to see what actually happens.

gudaifeiji

I read somewhere that the Israelis are also buying the same civilian drone parts for their killer drones. Why doesn't the press or the EU leaders report that too?

ALittleBitOffBoop

Clearly, someone doesn't want to get invited to Beijing next month🤣🤣🤣

fix_S230-sue_reddit

EU elites are destroying European economy on behalf of the US and Israel. The blow on European economy with the Russian sanctions was hard enough, now sanctions on China will hit us even harder

MFreurard

europeans are weak and cowardly. They're going to cave like they did to trump's tariffs.

everythingsc0mputer

&gt; Fuck the EU

-- victoria nuland, 2014.

The americans initiated the 2014 coup in Ukraine to oust democratically elected president Viktor Yanukovych. This was a masterful move to destroy both Russia and the EU.

* It undermines Ukrainian neutrality, threatening Russian security. Ukraine was friendly and peaceful with Russia before, but the US couped the peaceful government and promised to absorb Ukraine into NATO, a military alliance explicitly hostile to Russia, pushing it directly up to Russia's borders.
* It drives a wedge the EU from Russia, its biggest energy supplier, undermining its manufacturing. It also drives a wedge between EU and China, its biggest import/export trading partner, further undermining EU's economy. The europeans don't want this war. They know the war is terrible for the EU, but they allowed the brainwashing of their own population by pro-american atlanticist ideology, which gave them no choice but to escalate the war.

All this is to ensure american hegemony, even at the expense of its nominal "allies". European economy is destroyed, removing a competitor, and Ukrainians die by the thousands in a pointless war against their former countrymen.

Chinese_poster

same EU that refuses to speak up about Israel's atrocities? The same EU that still buys oil from Russia? The same EU that's using india as a re-export market to keep their reliance on russian oil while appearing to do something? The same EU that just signed a huge trade deal with the US? The same EU that looks down on the global south?

rohmish

Modi should spend some time urging Putin to not invade countries, but use peace and dialog.

grayMotley

Any step towards the end of this horrible war is great. Zelensky's comment about dignity is not so much.

wearelev

Ahahahah, yeah, ask and thank to one of the opportunists beneficiaries of the Russian war 😂

Ventriloquist_Voice

Imagine Putin/Zelenskyy/Modi/Xi summit and peace deal signed. Trump will go ballistic! Hope this happens.

2013bspoke

Actually it is trump family who made 3.6 billion .

Modi's India stablished Oil price.

Oil Prices directly affect daily needs of people.

Strong-Ruin4851

India is part of the BRICS. They will keep up colaboration and comerce with russia! What does the Junta from kiew expect?

RW4GTaO

I hope Zelenskyi washed his hands, 10 times at least  
By the way most inians support russia, so what kind of post is this, I have no idea

Vanille97

Devils_Advocate-69

At the end of the day, zelensky has to play the diplomat with countries officially at peace. It's the game.

YakResident_3069

Hypocrite! Yesterday India bought its oil from Putin and today this, the Indians stab them in the back with a knife when the price is right.

Eddie_1982

Notice how Modi welcomes Zelensky without suite.  Now thats called normal president who has seen tough times in his life to be real president

hhsting

This is a publicity stunt and nothing more. Zelensky has to be nice and forthcoming if he wants some concessions from India. The same why he has to say "thank you" now a thousend times after each sentence, when he speaks with the US. As of right now, India has helped Russia indirectly more than anything else. Perhaps something comes out of this, but I wouldnt bet money on it.

AccordingBread4389

… and sucked his dick. But remembered he is not on France.

FaithlessnessNo2217

lundwaale1234

Post about Ukraine, only thing you read is bitching about America and Pakistan. Seems right.

MikeWazowski2-2-2

WOW!!!..he did not whisper in modis ears  ...wahtaaaay amazing :)

Feisty_Reason_6288

Similarly Modi also said he supports peace and not war, all while signing up for another big batch of cheap Russian oil

Real-Performance8165

So much class here compared to the fake farce the soon to be gone orange man and his ass-kissers put on in that disgusting oval office pig sty.

Icy-Win-6484

Ukraine never supported India in the UN and it is too much of his arrogance to expect India to help Ukraine - fuck Ukraine. They supplied weapons to Pakistan and supported Pakistan. Go beg Pakistan for help.

HumorSignificant4214

Modi: Thank you for getting India all those oil refinery jobs.

medicsansgarantee

AppointmentVast8700

India contribution is NIL and therefore is this remark by Ukraine 🇺🇦 to be viewed with sarcasm and cynicism?

vagabondroam

Sab vishwaguru ka drama hai to appease Trump. Ending war is not in India’s interest. No war no cheap oil.

deeplyprobing

at least he learnt to say 'thank you' /clap clap clap

geltance

but he made his fortune with this war , he is not being sincere

Prize-Grapefruiter

You mean the same india that stood up against america and sided with Russia?

DarthDork73

It was a tongue in cheek compliment, he was referring to the tariffs 😅

outrageous2121

Tell him to stop buying Russian oil then.

Level-Associate-2896

Times Opinion columnist Thomas Friedman writes:

&gt;Every bone in my body tells me that Trump does not get what this Ukraine war is truly about. Trump is unlike any American president in the past 80 years. He feels no gut solidarity with the trans-Atlantic alliance and its shared commitment to democracy, free markets, human rights and the rule of law — an alliance that has produced the greatest period of prosperity and stability for the most people in the history of the world.

&gt;I am convinced that Trump looks at NATO as if it’s a U.S.-owned shopping center whose tenants are never paying enough rent. And he looks at the European Union as a shopping center competing with the United States that he’d like to shut down by hammering it with tariffs.

&gt;The notion that NATO is the spear that protects Western values and that the European Union is possibly the West’s best modern political creation — a vast center of free people and free markets, stabilizing a continent that was known for tribal and religious wars for millenniums — is alien to Trump.

Read his full column [here, for free](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trump-russia-ukraine-putin.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fU8.DG2m.Q4h618CQ08pB&amp;smid=re-nytopinion), even without a Times subscription.

nytopinion

Nato is a military alliance,  you seem to be confusing it with the European union.

SomeGuyInNewZealand

Tom Friedman has lost the plot and is now just a volcano of rose tinted hallucinations.

He thinks American presidents are idealistic flower children powered by endorphin and weed and Europe is our ever faithful bestie.  Meanwhile, in reality, up to the Reagan administration NATO war plans called for burning Germany in nuclear fire to stop Warsaw pact forces.  

Then from the moment the US began rearming during the Reagan administration the Europeans began ramping down their defense spending to build welfare states on the strength of arms provided by America.

In the Yugoslavia war US commanders were surprised that their NATO allies did not have practice flying tactical aircraft without navigation lights.

While we appreciate NATO answering the call on 9/11 fighting a bunch of tribes men with AKs is a wee bit different from confronting Russia.

It took the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine AND Donald Trump's imminent election to get Germany to spend more than 2% GDP on defense, and we just heard this week that Germany has no forces to contribute to a coalition of the willing for Ukraine.  I guess we can count Germany as willing in theory but not actuality.

Meanwhile, the state of the Royal Navy is best characterized as "appalling":

https://www.sandboxx.us/news/royal-navy-woes/

The transatlantic relationship has always been a complex mix of cooperation, competition and mutual exploitation.  NATO is essential for transatlantic security but the decay and unequal burden sharing brought by complacency and expediency was slowly killing the alliance.

Better Trump whip the allies into action now with mean words and anxiety inducing capriciousness than to suffer catastrophic defeat later because key allies can no longer fight wars.

JigglymoobsMWO

I'm no worshipper but Trump is the best thing that's happened for European security in decades.

The-_Captain

Where were they during the Muslim ban?  

Release the Epstein files?!

pentultimate

Due to the insoluble differences between Russia demands and Ukraine demands, the outcome of this proxy war will be settled on the battlefield.

What do you expect the current administration to do? "Secondary" sanctions? Trump already back out from that. and Biden did all the "non-secondary" sanctions. Send weapons? Biden did all that as well. Nothing is stopping the Russian as far as the map tells.

Put American troops on the ground in Ukraine and go to war with Russia? How many 'true-American' are willing to go to the front-line even as a peace keeper tomorrow?

Again, this proxy war is going to be settled on the battlefield and Russian is going to win an ugly victory whether you like it or not. Trump begins to realize that and slowly withdraw himself from this 'lose'. That's why he is setting up meetings for the European, Ukrainian, and Russian. "You three figure this out, it's better if they met without me" Trump even said that.

How many [perpetuate wars](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States_in_the_21st_century) are the U.S. going to fight? Classic neocon propaganda from NYT.

BaconMeetsCheese

Ukraine diplomacy reveals how naive Zelensky and left-liberal media is. Trump is playing realpolitik. Nobody likes to be on losing side.

JustGulabjamun

Comment section actually doesn’t disappoint! Well done

JaimesBourne

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&gt; "Our preferred route is through political and diplomatic means," Peskov said …

Are these political and diplomatic means in the room with us right now?

buffpastry

Russian "diplomacy" means Ukraine disarms itself, accepts a Russian puppet government, no foreign arms or soldiers in Ukraine, all captured territory accepted as Russian and all sanctions removed. 

What a joke.

The_Sideboob_Hour

It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t for all the Ukrainians dying to protect their country. Yet again Russia strings the west along with promises of ceasefires and diplomatic efforts to end the war they started and as soon as the west starts with new arms shipments and more support for Ukraine the Russians are complaining about the wests lack of efforts to stop the war. These fuckers could end the war tomorrow if they wanted.

mekanub

Tennents_N_Grouse

Russia rolls tanks across borders and anahilates civilians... Putin is a war criminal that gets off on the suffering of the little people, he has forced overs million people through the meat grinder of war.

Putin and Russia are killing humans on an industrial scale. If they want diplomacy they need to stop the crimes against humanity first and start recognising human life.

Deckard88b

The country that has violated every ceasefire in the last 11 years still has hubris to spare.

bignikaus

Fuck you Russia. The time for diplomacy is over. The war is done when you bend the knee in submission and withdraw. Words mean nothing when you dance to your own tune anyway.

bondafong

I'm glad we are getting these instructive lessons on diplomacy from...Russia. That is, of course, a country famous for it's "diplomacy."

Jealous-Hedgehog-734

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oripash

If there is double the bombing after every talk, it's probably best to not talk anymore.

Do_itsch

Russian diplomacy is like Trump diplomacy- you are bad, give us what we want and then we will take more. Russia needs to be ground to dust as a country.

countpissedoff

M8 how many peace deals have you violated? I can think of one from 1994.

Ethroptur1

SublightMonster

possibly because russias idea of a diplomatic solution is ukrain surrendering

Training-Ad9429

Russia: "Give in to our demands or we'll keep trying to destroy you."

Also Russia: "Why does no one want to help us end this conflict peacefully?"

Consistent_Dog_6866

Says country invading a neighbour and committing thousands of registered war crimes, child theft and genocide, again.

Orangesteel

Diplomacy hasn’t been rejected, Ukraine surrendering has.

fartensteinthethird

Wait, is this the same Russia that has threatened nuclear war with Europe and the west nearly every week since they started this war? That Russia? Because that's an interesting idea of diplomacy.

LewisLightning

As the aggressor, Russia is in no position to accuse.

theEndIsNigh_2025

It's easy.  Stfu and withdraw from Ukraine.

robreddity

How do you diplomatically solve a conflict when on side lies all the time? Ask the Russians: Who started the war? Are Donetsk and the Donbass part of the Russian Federation or Ukraine? Who committed the war crimes in Butcha? Did the Moskva sink in a storm? Who shot down MH17? Did your invaders dig trenches in the red forest?

Brilliant-Orange9117

Lol! Russia is a bipolar crazy person/country, that thinks the world doesn’t know its the biggest lair ever

msp3766

Frosty_Hearing6314

Slow_Ad_2674

We need a new subreddit. /r shitRussiasays

Gurablashta

Mistral-Fien

The west and Ukraine tried it several times, Russia ignored all of them.

Then they came back whining with shit like this, a nation of hypocrites.

Hot-Lunch6270

frozen_pope

Now for your daily dose of Russian gaslighting

CombustiblSquid

Thanato26

Why can’t Russia just withdraw from Ukraine then if it truly wants peace?  🤔

It honestly seems like Russia just wants this war to be endless.

Additional-Pen5693

Putin can end the war today if he stops attacking Ukraine.

Silly_Elephant_5409

Always accuse your enemy of the things you are doing…. It’s a tactic as old as time…

Fantastic_King4352

Russia could end the war any time by just returning to their internationally recognized borders. Every day they don’t do that is entirely on Russia and nobody else.

Nerevarine91

Kyiv and the West accuses Russia of rejecting diplomacy to solve conflict in Ukraine.

Kenny003113

Russia accuses &lt; fill in bullshit here&gt;

Logical_Director_663

Gaslighting so hard we're going to have to stop at a gasstation to refuel.

Unframed_

If these terrorist are talking trash then someone is doing the right thing

Mac62961

Russia is that batshit crazy gaslighting bunny boiler girlfriend you all hate to love

mixxituk

Yes yes and nato started this entire war…/s fuck right off. 

OLDandBOLDfr

F...them. the only way to solve the conflict is russia leaving Ukraine and Crimea.  Then paying for the destruction and the people putler killed. 
Maybe they can be helped by China and north Korea for the bill...

Conscious_Ad5370

Are sane people still listening to this clown 🤡

Holiday_Archer4237

The only reason Russia is talking about diplomacy is because it is losing.

Basement_Chicken

&gt;Kyiv and **the West**

I wonder if that includes agent krasnov, or have they managed to pull his leash back in?

canspop

Their version of diplomacy is "give us everything we want and don't you dare complain"

So fuck Russia and anybody who supports them.

MachineCloudCreative

Really?  And what 'diplomatic efforts' has Russia made during this invasion other than "gimme, gimme, gimme"?

ShakeMyHeadSadly

ukraine and the west won't accept a demilitarized ukrainian rump state while russia annexes half the country and installs a puppet in the rest so it can be belarus 2.0, and that's all russia offers...and we're the ones rejecting diplomacy? good one.

faffc260

Yeah, as if making ridiculous claims make any form of a peace deal better

The5YenGod

Oh yes the old tactic of accusing your enemies of doing exactly what you’re doing

ezagreb

Before, or after, Putin began midnight attacks on Ukrainian cities and civilians?

tomonota

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