MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. The aggravation in relations between the White House and the current European leaders was inevitable as Brussels remained a proponent of Russophobic rhetoric, and the US turn towards talks on Ukraine shattered it, said Leonid Slutsky, the head of the State Duma’s committee on international affairs and leader of the LDPR Party.
"The crisis in relations between the administration of [US President Donald] Trump and the current Brussels bureaucracy was inevitable. [Chief of the European diplomacy Kaja] Kallas, [head of the European Commission Ursula] von der Leyen, [German Chancellor Friedrich] Merz, [French President Emmanuel] Macron, [British Prime Minister Keir] Starmer and the rest were supporters of [former US President Joe] Biden's approaches in one way or another and came to power under the banner of the Russophobic rhetoric. The US turn towards negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement came a shock for them, from which they still have not completely recovered," he told TASS.
He noted that Brussels is unable to untangle "the knot of contradictions" stemming from its dependence on Washington, its anti-Russian position and continued support for the Kiev regime.
