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Morawiecki (Poland): Putin will not stop, like Hitler

“Peace is our common goal, but it cannot be a peace at any cost. We cannot accept a dialogue that can be exploited by Putin, a dialogue over the heads of the Ukrainians ”. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, in an interview with ‘La Repubblica’, does not hide his doubts about the Italian proposal for peace talks in Ukraine. Every attempt, he says, has so far led to “humiliation”.

Putin he will not stop, in his opinion, “as Hitler did not stop in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland” and “this time we can be wiser before Russia sets fire to all of Europe”. “Russia has been waging a silent hybrid war against Europe for some time and tries to destabilize the situation wherever it succeeds – says the Polish premier – and yet, even today, some European elites try to pretend that nothing is happening. This is the last chance to regain clarity. Because I have no doubt that if it weren’t for Ukraine’s heroic stance, the Kremlin would today be thinking of invading Warsaw, Tallinn, Vilnius and Helsinki. At that point, no European country could feel safe ”.

The fast track for Ukraine’s entry into the EU? “We live in times when we need historical decisions rather than bureaucratic meticulousness”, she hopes. Should Europe build a stronger common defense and a European army? “The answer can only be one: yes. It must be a strong European army that is fully integrated with NATO structures ”, she replies.

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