TUDO SERVE PARA TENTAR LIXAR OS CURDOS

A Turquia rejeitou hoje as condolências dos Estados Unidos pelo atentado de domingo em Istambul, que provocou seis mortos e 81 feridos, alegando que Washington apoia os curdos que Ancara responsabilizou pelo ataque.

Entretanto, o PKK  negou em comunicado qualquer envolvimento no atentado: «Não temos relação com este evento, não atacamos civis e rejeitamos acções que o façam».

A DIPLOMACIA PELO CANO: DE BRENDA LEE A JOSEP BORRELL, I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY, I'M SORRY

Quando Brenda Lee gravou nos anos 60 do século passado o que viria a ser um hit da música country, mal imaginava ela que no século XXI a moda do I'm sorry chegasse tão longe.

«Josep Borrel pede desculpa, mas nega racismo. A declaração do representante  para os Negócios Estrangeiros e Política de Segurança da União Europeia surge depois de este se ter referido à "Europa" como um "jardim" e à maior parte do resto do mundo como uma "selva" que "poderia invadir o jardim" (...)»

DO ESTADO DA DIPLOMACIA: SAIU-LHE MAS É BOA PESSOA!

«Estamos a tentar matar o maior número possível de russos. Quanto mais russos matarmos agora, menos terão os nossos filhos de matar»,  Petro Vrublevskyi, embaixador da Ucrânia no Cazaquistão.

Já pediu desculpa. Siga!

GUERRA NA UCRÂNIA: A DIPLOMACIA PELA HORA DA MORTE

Eu pensava que estas coisas se tratavam discretamente. E sim, reafirmo que a hipocrisia é um avanço civilizacional que nos impede de andar à estalada na rua com tudo e todos.

Mas os EUA não resistem. E tinham que vir meter o nariz publicamente num assunto que diz respeito, no caso, ao Estado ucraniano. 

Porque uma coisa é pugnar pela anti-corrupção no país (tanto mais quando lhe fornecem armas e dinheiro...), outra é vir o porta-voz do Departamento de Estado dos EUA, Ned Price, dizer: "Juntamo-nos ao povo da Ucrânia para enfatizar a importância de nomear de forma transparente um sucessor altamente qualificado e verdadeiramente independente como procurador-geral".

Já agora: têm algum nome a sugerir?! Podiam dizer qual era. No Twitter, por exemplo. 

GUERRA NA UCRÂNIA: POIS LÁ ESTÁ, SE NA HISTÓRIA BASTASSE TER RAZÃO, OS ÍNDIOS NÃO TERIAM SIDO DIZIMADOS

Bom artigo sobre o umbiguismo ocidental assinado pelo jornalista inglês Edward Luce no Financial Times

«One of the most frustrating aspects of America’s Ukraine debate is its degree of self-deception about global unity. The assumption is false.

Vladimir Putin is hated and feared by most of the west, just as Volodymyr Zelenskyy is lionised. But the west has not been joined by most of the rest. When Indonesia hosts the G20 summit in November, Putin will be there in spite of Washington’s demand that Russia be expelled. Only four out of 55 African leaders attended Zelenskyy’s virtual address to the African Union, which had finally agreed he could speak to them after 10 weeks of asking. Not every summit is a western movie festival, where Zelenskyy has become a staple. And not everyone shares the US foreign policy establishment’s view that Putin is waging an existential war on democracy. I do not need convincing of the dark consequences of Putin’s late imperial agenda, nor of the necessity that he fails. But I’m not an Indian diplomat, an African consumer, or a Latin American energy importer. The west is not the world, and the world is not the west. It is astonishing such a truism has to be emphasised. 

Here is rule number one of my unwritten primer on global diplomacy: Avoid navel-gazing. Good diplomacy sees things from other points of view and takes them into consideration. I fear that the US and the west in general are missing a big underlying reality in the global reaction to Putin’s barbarism: the Ukraine war is boosting demand for a multipolar world, which is very different to what we have been telling ourselves. 

Most of the non-west craves strategic autonomy. They may be upset by the images from Bucha and Mariupol, just as we are troubled by footage of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar or bombed out cities in Syria. That doesn’t mean they will suspend their interests to stop it from happening, any more than we do when others cry out for help. To much of the world, Ukraine is just another humanitarian tragedy. The fact that the west sees it as existential is an irritation. Africans and Arabs and Latin Americans know that when there is a clash between US ideals and interests, the latter generally win. We should be wary of judging those who make similar trade-offs. 

The world feels the Ukraine war primarily in two ways — higher food and energy prices. Following a pandemic in which emerging market growth collapsed and in which their debt to GDP ratios soared, inflation in basic staples is the last thing they need. If you add in rising US interest rates, we have the makings of the next emerging market payments crisis and rising political instability. We cannot blame countries such as India and Brazil for buying discounted Russian oil. Nor should we be surprised that there are plenty of takers for Russian grain. The fact that Putin is both blocking Ukrainian grain exports, and stealing what he can get his hands on, is a brutal reflection on Moscow’s ethics. But it does not alter others’ calculation. Hard economics trumps gauzy moralism. Joe Biden, after all, is about to travel to Saudi Arabia to press it for more oil production. This rips up two supposedly core tenets of Biden administration — reducing fossil fuels and shunning pariah autocracies. 

The west’s speedy decoupling from Russia is bumping up against geopolitical limits. Countries such as China and India are helping create alternative payments systems and transportation routes for Russian commodities. They are also blocking western attempts to eject Russia from the multilateral system. The west’s best response to this would be to provide the kind of largesse to emerging markets on which China has long since taken the lead. Washington ought to spearhead efforts to boost global food security, arrange emerging market debt restructurings, and license Covid vaccine production (or better still, suspend patents) around the world. If we want the rest to follow us against Russia we must pay attention to what they want. Telling ourselves repeatedly that we are in a war of light versus darkness in which there is no middle ground is not a diplomatic strategy. (...)»

GUERRA NA UCRÂNIA: UMA PESSOA LÁ POR TER SIDO INVADIDA NÃO TEM DE SER DESAGRADÁVEL COM QUEM NÃO A INVADIU

Olaf Scholz dá armas, mas não vai a Kiev. 

A recusa vem na sequência de irritação anterior, quando há semanas o governo de Zelensky fez saber que o Presidente alemão, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, não era bem-vindo à Ucrânia.

Vai daí, o embaixador ucraniano em Berlim, Andrij Melnyk, chamou beleidigte Leberwurst, ao Scholz, em tradução livre prima donna ou, literalmente, salsicha de fígado insultada.

Até eu que tenho fama de ter mau feitio seria mais diplomática.

Invasão da Ucrânia: a diplomacia de bastidores e a escalada da guerra

«When Gen. Mark Milley emerged from six hours of tense talks with his Russian counterpart in Helsinki last September, the Joint Chiefs chair looked almost buoyant. Or at least as chipper as the gruff soldier of more than 40 years ever gets in public. “When military leaders of great powers communicate, the world is a safer place,” Milley said, striking an optimistic tone.

Now, just five months later, with Russian military forces pummeling Ukraine from the air, land and sea, Milley’s paean to a common understanding with Moscow is virtually dead.

But his relationship with Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of the Russian Armed Forces, is at the center of a highly sensitive behind-the-scenes effort to prevent the biggest war in Europe in generations from spinning into a wider conflict. It’s a situation that became more urgent on Sunday, when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his nuclear forces on high alert after a series of what he called “aggressive statements” by NATO powers.»

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