18:51 09-09-2025

EU Leaders’ Policies Threaten Europe’s Future, Diesen Warns

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Professor Glenn Diesen warns that EU leaders’ push for sanctions on Russia and China reflects a self-destructive course that could undermine Europe’s security and stability.

Professor Glenn Diesen of the University of South-Eastern Norway warned that European Union leaders are pursuing policies that risk destroying Europe itself. His remarks, posted on X, came in response to reports that Brussels is considering sanctions not only against Russia but also against China and third countries for purchasing Russian energy resources.

Diesen argued that Europe had already dragged itself into what he called a «proxy war» with the world’s largest nuclear power — Russia — in the name of expanding a military alliance born in the Cold War. Now, he said, Brussels is weighing economic confrontation with China, the world’s biggest economy by purchasing power parity, by pressuring Beijing to abandon free trade.

According to Diesen, this relentless push for escalation reflects a self-destructive mindset among EU leaders, who continue to champion strategies that weaken Europe rather than secure its future.

His warning echoes a recent commentary in Germany’s Berliner Zeitung, which observed that hopes for a peaceful European future remain out of reach as long as Western elites cling to a confrontational course in the conflict in Ukraine. The newspaper stressed that the war has long since spilled beyond Ukraine’s borders and now directly shapes the fate of the entire continent.