Russian Army Will Be “Annihilated” If Putin Uses Nukes: EU’s Borrell. Did EU get Nukes? TZ

Did the EU suddenly get nuclear weapons and a military that I didn’t know about?

“EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell issued a threat against Russia on Thursday, warning that Western powers would “annihilate” the Russian army if Moscow uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-army-will-be-annihilated-if-uses-nukes-eus-borrell

This comment was taken from a speech the Josep Borrell gave at a European Diplomatic Academy event in Bruges, Belgium.  Here are some more interesting, and I think telling statements from his speech.

“Thank you to all of you, and congratulations to all of you for having the extraordinary chance of studying here, in Bruges at the College of Europe. I am sure you are aware of how lucky you are.

Here, Bruges is a good example of the European garden. Yes, Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that the humankind has been able to build – the three things together. And here, Bruges is maybe a good representation of beautiful things, intellectual life, wellbeing.

The rest of the world – and you know this very well, Federica – is not exactly a garden. Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden. The gardeners should take care of it, but they will not protect the garden by building walls. A nice small garden surrounded by high walls in order to prevent the jungle from coming in is not going to be a solution. Because the jungle has a strong growth capacity, and the wall will never be high enough in order to protect the garden.

The gardeners have to go to the jungle. Europeans have to be much more engaged with the rest of the world. Otherwise, the rest of the world will invade us, by different ways and means.”

Here is where the new Euro dominant policy gets announced…

“And from my side, it is just the contrary: this war has been an occasion for the European Union to be more assertive and to push for the creation of a European stand – from the foreign policy side and also from the military and defence perspective.”

I feel like much of this could have been written at the begining of World War 1

“We live in a world of power politics. The rules-based system that we defend is challenged like never before, and our interdependency – which was supposed to be a good thing, preventing the war – now is becoming weaponised.

Well, the rules-based system – and here we have [President of Russia, Vladimir] Putin saying who decides which are these rules, challenging the system directly.”

I do enjoy the fact that generally if you allow people enough time to talk they generally reveal themselves, so after Borrell commits foreign countries’ troops to intervene in a country that they aren’t at war with IE Russia and Ukraine we now come to the desired end goals for Washington, London and Brussels.

“The work of diplomats – and you will be -, I hope that when you will be in office, the war will already be over. I do not expect that the war lasts as much that you have to take care of it. But, after this war, it will become a period of instability and we will have to build a new security order. How do we integrate Russia – the post-Putin Russia – in this world order is something that will put a lot of work for people thinking on diplomacy, and on how to practice and to implement it. “

A good reminder of how exactly he views the world.

“Keep the garden, be good gardeners. But your duty will not be to take care of the garden itself but [of] the jungle outside”

Full transcript may be found here

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/european-diplomatic-academy-opening-remarks-high-representative-josep-borrell-inauguration_en#:~:text=And%20then%2C%20there,not%20be%20bluffing.