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Roberta Metsola, the president of the European Parliament, said in an interview published last week that she met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and got a chance to look into his eyes, which she essentially said revealed a true leader in all his glory.
Metsola visited Kyiv on 1 April and told DW.com that she was impressed with Zelensky, who had courage and resilience forged in his eyes.
“I also saw the face of a leader that would like more from the European Union, from leaders,” she said. “That is why I went there, in order to talk face to face with him, to see how myself as a leader of the European Parliament, but also all of us as a European Union, can continue to help.”
Metsola, who has been president of the European Parliament since January, came back from Ukraine with a sense of urgency, which is not a political risk for a politician in the West.
“We need to make a choice. We are either going to save Ukraine or turn our backs and if we turn our back to Ukraine, that means we turned our backs to a country that looked up to us as the democratic leader, as a global political power stands for freedom around the world,” Metsola said.
Radio Free Europe reported that Metsola wants the EU to follow the Czech Republic’s lead after Prague announced it would send tanks into Kyiv.
The EU has pledged $1.4 billion in financial assistance to Ukraine, which she acknowledged was unprecedented.
“Ukraine needs to survive. We need to help make sure that Ukraine wins this war because otherwise all of Europe would fail,” she said.
TRENDPOST: What a difference a set of eyes makes. In 2014, the New Yorker published an article about a meeting between then-Vice President Joe Biden and then-Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin back in 2011.
“I said, ‘Mr. Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul,’” Biden told the magazine. “He looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, ‘We understand one another.’”
President George W. Bush also looked into Putin’s eyes and said “I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul, a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country,”
The Atlantic said Bush added a few sentences later, “I wouldn’t have invited him to my ranch if I didn’t trust him.”
We’re seeing a massive propaganda campaign against Russia and Putin.
Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News anchor, said she felt that she was being manipulated by Putin when the Russian leader started talking about his relationship with his mother during an interview in 2018.
Kelly said Putin highlighted the “close relationship he had with her.”
“It was an obvious manipulation,” she said.
TREND FORECAST: At least 10 million people are believed to have fled their homes in Ukraine, and there were about 3,455 civilian casualties, with about 1,417 killed and 2,038 injured, according to the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights.
EU Parliament head Metsola said she wants to make sure that our “children don’t come to us in a few years and say ‘you could have saved more Ukrainians. You could have made sure that in this moment of political reckoning that we have, we do not fail Europe.’”
However, with the West sending billions of dollars of lethal weapons to Ukraine to fight the Russians, forget what “children” who don’t know shit about what happened and why are going to think… intelligent people today should be coming out now and saying: “Stop the war, negotiate for peace.”
Stop sending weapons of death for a losing battle, since we maintain our forecast that Russia will defeat Ukraine.