Europa accusata di essere morbida in Azerbaigian per evitare l’acquisto di gas russo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7yl59nzro
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Europa accusata di essere morbida in Azerbaigian per evitare l’acquisto di gas russo
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y7yl59nzro
di 1DarkStarryNight
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Prominent campaigners, diplomats, and politicians have united to condemn Europe’s ‘complicity’ in Azerbaijan’s ‘human rights violations, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing’.
The European Parliament had called on the EU to impose sanctions on Baku and end reliance on Azerbaijan’s gas exports.
However, top foreign policy officials avoid publicly criticising Aliyev.
When Kaja Kallas, the EU’s top diplomat, visited Baku in April, on the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, she was heavily criticised for emphasising “great potential” for EU-Azerbaijan ties while at least 21 leading journalists were detained in Baku.
EU policy has in effect given Aliyev “a free hand”, says Eldar Mamedov, a former Latvian diplomat who served as foreign policy adviser to the European Parliament’s Social Democrat group.
“The repression, arrests of dissidents, bloggers, and opposition voices have long strained Baku-Brussels relations,” he told the BBC. “Since Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, this issue virtually disappeared from the agenda.”
The European Union rejects the allegations.
So we should go soft on Russia, ditch Ukraine just so that we can flex on 1 of 100 worlds dictators ?
Yeah, I dont think so.
We are going soft on them, thats not an accusation. Thats just true
Yeah, sorry, but if we don’t trade with authoritarian or controversial regimes and states, then we will get isolated and not trade with anyone, because there is no ideal and pure partner/supplier anywhere.
It is not pretty, in ideal world it would have been different, but that is the world we live in, and reality of geopolitics. We choose the lesser evil for Europe in a world where ethic standards are getting lower.
In the meantime, focus on renewables and nuclear to be as little reliant on those states as possible
You can’t keep walking around and lecture every country and leaders on everything. Everyone will hate the EU if they not already do it. Have to think of yourself also. Europe has needs also.
You’re buying Russian gas and oil even when it comes from Central Asia. It’s the same thing with India, and even Saudi Arabia. All of them buy cheap Russia gas and oil, and then sell it to Europe.
This is the big lie that European politicians tell their populations so they can feel good about themselves and feel like they are helping g Ukraine. “ look at how much we’ve reduced buying Russian energy since the start of the war”.
You can’t quit Russian energy unless you want massive price increases that will destabilize the population.
This is what you get for not fracking, and giving up nuclear energy. For giving up energy independence. You are dependent on the energy sellers, and there is no getting around it.
This is why the American sanctions on secondary countries will never happen. Europe would be fucked because that’s where they get their Russian enemy from.
Unfortunately, almost every country that gets most of its state revenue from fossil fuel exports is authoritarian. It’s almost like a “law of political physics”. So, if the EU gives up on Azerbaijan, they’ll have to import more oil from another dictatorship.