Welp, apparently, people are not really taking the Bucha massacre or the train station bombing (which rapidly replaced the Bucha massacre as the narrative collapsed) as seriously as they’re supposed to be taking them.
Last week, it was claimed by Zelensky that a leader of an EU member state asked him for proof of Russian responsibility for the Bucha massacre. The Austrian Chancellor was in Kiev at the time, so it may well have been him doing the asking.
RT:
Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer is expected to visit Russia on Monday, officials in both Moscow and Vienna have confirmed.
The upcoming visit was first reported by Austria’s Kronen Zeitung newspaper, which cited government sources saying that the country’s leader was seeking to become a “bridge builder” in an attempt to help broker peace between Russia and Ukraine.
The visit has been coordinated with the EU leadership, as well as Nehammer’s German counterpart Olaf Scholz.
Nehammer’s office confirmed the upcoming visit to TASS, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reported that the Austrian leader will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“Yes. We confirm [the talks],” Peskov told RIA Novosti.
On Saturday, Nehammer visited Kiev, meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as other top officials. During his visit, the Chancellor expressed his support for Ukraine, stating that the EU will continue to ramp-up anti-Russian sanctions “until the war stops.”
“As long as people are dying, every sanction is still insufficient,” Nehammer stated.
It’s of course obvious that the US State Department does not want anything like this to happen. They do not want any form of negotiations at all, as they’ve repeatedly demonstrated and in several cases, tacitly admitted aloud.
So the most interesting part of this event is probably the fact that the leader of a major Western European state is ignoring the directive of the US government and attempting to engage in conflict resolution.
It probably won’t go anywhere. The Ukraine is going to have to lose very badly before anything can be negotiated, and that loss is coming quickly at the Ultimate Battle of Donbass.
But the Austrian Chancellor going to Russia demonstrates that it isn’t just India and the rest of the third world that is losing faith in the global leadership of the United States – or more precisely, losing faith in the ability of the United States to exercise soft power the world over.
There was a time not long ago when no one in Western Europe would dare disobey a direct directive from the US State Department. And now, here we are.
Pictures of the leader of a Western European country meeting with Putin after he’s been accused of these fake massacres by the US is going to be like spitting in the face of the Evil Empire.