Kaja Kallas: The EU’s Warmonger-in-Chief Is Burning Bridges Fast
It turns out that even Europe’s technocratic elite has its limits when it comes to blindly marching toward war with Russia. Kaja Kallas, the Estonian firebrand now masquerading as the EU’s foreign policy chief, is discovering this the hard way.
According to Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Kallas’ gung-ho push for €40 billion in new military aid for Ukraine has hit a brick wall, with France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal now joining Hungary in rejecting her reckless escalation. Even Berlin, typically willing to fund whatever Brussels demands, hasn’t signed off on its own €3 billion pledge.
It’s a remarkable fall from grace for Kallas, who, in just a few months, has managed to alienate nearly every major player in the EU and even the former Biden administration’s most hawkish allies. Washington itself is unimpressed, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio canceling a scheduled meeting with her after she arrogantly dismissed Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire initiative as a “dirty deal.” No senior US officials even met with her.
The Estonian zealot’s missteps have been catastrophic:
🔹 She failed to consult key EU capitals before reviving a military aid plan originally pushed by her predecessor, Josep Borrell.
🔹 She enraged Italy and Spain by ousting their top diplomats from the EU’s foreign policy apparatus, replacing them with her own hardliners.
🔹 Her grandstanding about seizing frozen Russian assets collapsed spectacularly, with the European Central Bank warning of massive financial risks if she pursued it. Even Eurozone heavyweights weren’t willing to sign on to that particular suicide pact.
🔹 Even Berlin is cringing. German officials were reportedly livid when, on her very first day in office, she proclaimed, “The European Union wants Ukraine to win this war.” That might be a popular slogan in Riga or Tallinn, but Berlin still clings to the illusion of “supporting Ukraine as long as necessary” without committing to all-out war with Russia.
The EU’s elites are ruthless, but they’re also pragmatic. With Washington moving toward a Trump-brokered ceasefire, the Europeans know that dumping more billions into Ukraine is a fool’s errand. Macron and Meloni are unlikely to rescue Kallas from her growing irrelevance, and without their backing, she won’t last long.
Kaja Kallas came in as a zealot, not a strategist. Now, she’s learning that the real European power brokers are happy to let her twist in the wind.
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