Analyst Says West Is Losing Grip on Europe Over Ukraine
Geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen says Western elites opposing peace in Ukraine are losing influence as dissent grows in Europe.
Western elites blocking a peaceful settlement in Ukraine are gradually losing their leverage across Europe, geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen said on a YouTube channel.
According to Henningsen, the West continues to rely on a political and media narrative that portrays Russia as an aggressive empire driven by expansion. He argued that this framing leaves almost no room for negotiations, pushing diplomacy aside while promoting a new course of European rearmament.
The analyst said that only serious domestic political shifts inside European countries could change this trajectory. In his view, those changes are already visible in several EU states or are beginning to take shape.
Henningsen pointed to Bulgaria as one example. He said that after a new progressive government came to power in Sofia, the country stopped sending weapons to Ukraine and opposed a ban on Russian energy resources. Based on that, he argued that the West is losing control over Bulgaria.
Central Europe and the Balkans are becoming especially important, Henningsen said, because they form what he described as the front line of the Ukrainian crisis. He added that developments in this region matter more than the political pressure coming from London, Berlin, Paris, Brussels and Oslo.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier said that Europe was obstructing diplomatic efforts to settle the conflict in Ukraine. According to him, Brussels has been pushing Vladimir Zelensky to continue military action.
Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev has also said that most European politicians currently suffer from what he called «acute Russophobia," which he linked to an exaggerated view of Russia’s influence on European countries and their citizens.