EU applies anti-Russian "geopolitical optic" everywhere - Russian  official 

ArmInfo.Below is an excerpt from a statement by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy at UNSC briefing on cooperation between the United Nations and the European Union. 

"In recent years, the EU has become a symbol of blatant double  standards, to which Mr. Borrell has contributed significantly. I can  cite numerous examples. Say, his statements in February this year  that banning Russian media is a "protection of freedom of speech". At  the same time, our retaliatory measures in the European Union were  strongly criticized. Take another example. It was also in February  when you, Mr. Borrell, said that in order to stop Israel's war in  Gaza, weapons supplies to that country must stop. That is a  reasonable idea, and we do support it. But please note that in the  Ukrainian context, Mr. Borrell insists on increasing military support  for Ukraine, while recognizing that in its absence the conflict will  end within a few weeks. In this context I cannot fail to note that EU  takes money for weapons for Ukraine from the European Peace Fund.  That's in best Orwell's traditions: "War is peace, freedom is  slavery, ignorance is power". These are the principles by which  today's European Union lives.

"This being said, the European Union spares no effort to position  itself as a peacemaker and mediator, and is trying to "dress up in  this toga" even in relation to Ukraine. But does the EU want the  conflict in that country to end? Let us address this question to the  source, that is, to Mr. Borrell himself. In June 2023, after  admitting that the conflict in Ukraine could be over in a matter of  weeks if the West stopped providing military support to Ukraine, he  said that the question was not whether to end this war, but how to  end it. In other words, the EU (as a party that is fighting, albeit  indirectly, in Ukraine), is working not to resolve the conflict, but  to inflict maximum damage on Russia through it, and ideally to  achieve Russia's strategic defeat. The EU applies this anti-Russian  "geopolitical optic" everywhere, not bothering that the price of  hundreds of thousands of human lives is paid not only by Ukraine but  other countries too. Same logic applies to Armenia, Kosovo, Moldova,  and even Africa. That is why, Mr. President, Russia calls to use  caution in matters of UN-EU interaction. The assistance that the EU  offers is not free. It is invariably followed by political demands,  the imposition of alien political and socio-economic scenarios. In  the end, this always results in something either neo-colonial or  anti-Russian, for the modern European Union knows no other ways to  operate."