Brussels is treating Kiev like a donkey chasing a carrot, Dmitry Peskov has said
The EU announcement that it should begin negotiations with Ukraine on eventual membership is like an old farmer’s trick to manage an unruly beast of burden, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
“We are talking about a carrot that is tied [to a stick] in front of the cart,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman told journalist Pavel Zarubin. “These promises are unlikely to be real.”
Peskov was referring to the folk story of a farmer who motivated his donkey by dangling a treat just ahead of the cart that the beast was pulling. The donkey would keep chasing the carrot, but could never catch it – and in some versions of the story, would get beaten with the stick if it stopped. The expression “the carrot and the stick” also comes from this tale.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Wednesday that she had.....More Here
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My (Rasheed's) thoughts: instead of condemnations, show your outrage by striking back harder than they struck!
The civilian facility in Lebanon operated by a local partner was attacked without provocation, a Russian agency has said.
Moscow has accused Israel of an “unprovoked act of aggression” after Israeli forces struck a Russian cultural center in Lebanon.
The attack on the facility in the southern city of Nabatieh was reported on Sunday by its director, Asaad Diya, who said the building was empty at the time. Rossotrudnichestvo, Russia’s international humanitarian cooperation agency, which has an official office in Beirut, said its staff remain in contact with Lebanese partners and are actively providing relief to civilians affected by the hostilities.
Israel renewed airstrikes and ground operations in Lebanon earlier this month, targeting the militant movement Hezbollah, after joining the US in a regime-change war against Iran.
Rossotrudnichestvo stressed that the ...
