Europe didn't want to believe Russia would actually invade Ukraine even as the US kept warning it

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

was coming, top EU diplomat says

In the days and weeks leading up to Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine in late February, the White House repeatedly warned that conflict was imminent.

But despite these warnings from the US that war was on the horizon, Europe didn't want to believe that Russia would actually attack its eastern European neighbor, the European Union's top diplomat revealed on Tuesday.

"Some things have happened in the past that we knew they could happen, but some of them have been a surprise," said Josep Borrell, the EU's foreign and security policy chief, during a speech at the bloc's ambassadors conference in Brussels.

"We did not believe that the war was coming. I have to recognize that here, in Brussels. The Americans were telling us, 'They will attack, they will attack,' and we were quite reluctant to believe it," Borrell said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/europe-didnt-want-believe-russia-151313930.html

Which makes me glad Joe is our president instead of the orange blob.

[Srkdqltr]

1. Well now after 8 months I'm sure they get it.

[Irish_Dem]

2. The Europeans have been very foolish to look the other way with Russia.

Russia wants regional control over Europe and to be a 21st century superpower.

Putin will not stop until he achieves it.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. The Pig wouldn't have told them anything or agreed with them.

[MerryHolidays]

4. 100000% correct.

No one, including Zelenskyy, believed that Russia would invade. Meanwhile, while everyone was accusing the US of stoking the flames, Joe Biden was revealing to the whole world what exactly Russia was doing in the weeks/days before the invasion.

President Biden was correct in every way. He and his team are the only ones I trust to tell us what's going on. We don't need to know everything, of course, but my trust is with him.

[mitch96]

5. "Europe didn't want to believe Russia would actually". That's what scares me about Putin

talking nukes.... If he is in a corner he might do it ...
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[roamer65]

6. This is uniting Europe.

If we don’t end up in nuclear war, eventually the EU will extend all the way to the Urals.

I can also see the US and Canada as partners to the EU to counter expanding Chinese influence.

Siberia will fall under the Chinese sphere of influence, simply due to geography.

[DemocraticPatriot]

7. I didn't "want" to believe it, either...

but the Biden administration called it right---

a far cry from what a Trump administration would have done-- actually supporting the invasion for his BFF bromance with Putin...