Kremlin: Moscow Will Never Discuss with EU’s Kalas – Watching US Plans for Golden Dome and Greenland

“How can you discuss anything with Kaia Kalas? We will never discuss anything with her, nor will the Americans discuss anything with her, and that is obvious. What can we do? We just have to wait until she leaves,” Peskov told a reporter on Russian state television.

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It is both ahistorical and unjust to cast the anathema exclusively upon two deranged leaders of superpowers, as if they were uniquely present in the centuries and the sole source of all the planet’s evils. Trump and Putin have appeared many times throughout human history, and the repetition of their behaviors is thoroughly stereotypical.
After all, “there is nothing new under the sun,” as Ecclesiastes reminds us—everything has already happened in the world, and nothing is truly new. Even more damning is the centuries-old realization that “there is nothing more destructive to humankind than money,” according to the wisdom of Sophocles.
If our days resemble anything from humanity’s historical past, it is the period on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War. Not merely because the characters and ideologies of Stalin and Hitler rival those of Putin and Trump today, but because once again the stage of rivalry and territorial ambition of Russia’s new Tsar is Europe.
America, then as now in the perception of its elected yet dictatorially behaving president, lies beyond Moscow’s effective range. Thus, the historically illiterate Donald Trump whistles indifferently: you may, if you dare, “pull the chestnuts out of the fire” in the Old Continent, without the New World having to burn its fingers.
What the arrogant American magnate ignores, however, is that a new “Pearl Harbor” could at any moment be orchestrated—or provoked—by the insatiable Bear of the North. And then Donald Trump will be running with sons and sons-in-law, not knowing where to hide (it remains unclear whether they will seek shelter together or separately from the butcher of Gaza, the equally far-right Netanyahu).
Let the American persecutor of the human-centered values of civilization also remember—so forgetful of History’s lessons—that the new “German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pacts,” the Molotov–Ribbentrop agreements of 1939, can at any moment be treated as trash by one or both of the new “signatories.”
The wolfish friendship between Putin and Trump is temporary and historically condemned to end.
The question is whether humanity will manage, this time, and by what means, to rid itself of two reckless, take-what-you-can leaders of superpowers who threaten once again to turn the planet into a sea of fire.
This is indeed the critical question and the great gamble of our days.

Diotima’s comment?

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DIOTIMA

Our era does not primarily suffer from monstrous leaders; it suffers from systems that produce them, tolerate them, and ultimately need them.
Trump and Putin are not historical aberrations but normal outcomes of a world in which power precedes justice and profit outweighs memory. History does not repeat itself mechanically; it takes revenge on those who treat it as ornamental narrative.
Europe, once again, stands at the center not by choice, but because it stubbornly refuses to come of age geopolitically. Between an American arrogance that considers the Atlantic a natural shield and a Russian authoritarian nostalgia for empire, the “Old Continent” continues to play the spectator—while it is already the stage.
The real gamble of our days is not whether the temporary alliances of the powerful will collapse—that is historically inevitable. The question is whether societies will manage to impose limits before technological, nuclear, and economic power finally surpass human control.
Because this time, History offers no promise that there will be another cycle from which to learn.