ANALYSIS – Two approaches are in conflict to end the war in Ukraine. One, trumpist, based on the “realpolitik” and the primacy of force, and the other, European, warns against a “realpolitik” without considering the “real”.
The Duma on Wednesday passed a bill that allows President Putin to send troops to any country where Russian citizens could be threatened, detained or brought to court. A complex legislation that Ukrainians see as a “normalization of Russian expansionism”.
This controversial legislative initiative coincides – which cannot be a coincidence – with the holding, on Thursday and Friday in Chisinau, Moldova, of a summit of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Council of Europe, which is expected to confirm the creation of a special tribunal for the Russian aggression against Ukraine, whose status was adopted in June 2025. France announced through its minister Jean-Noël Barrot that it will “join the governing committee of the special tribunal”, hoping to see its creation at the meeting.
The list of signatories is not clear, given the sensitivity of the subject in the midst of the Russian hybrid war against Europe, but about twenty…
