One of FVD’s members of Parliament, Gideon van Meijeren, gave a superb speech on the war in Ukraine last week. In five concise minutes, he lays out FVD’s unvarying position: that Russia has security concerns, that NATO is aggressive and anti-Russian, that peace is better than war. If the situation does escalate even further, historians will look back at these lucid and calm speeches by FVD and scratch their heads in wonder why they went unheeded - and why, instead, the West seems obsessed with digging an ever deeper dividing line across the European continent. Gideon gives an answer: because war is good business, especially for the Americans, while it allows European and EU politicians to ratchet up more power for themselves. It is all so simple, really, and so tragic.
