A post by Maria Zakharova
During the recent New Year meeting with the members of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament, Kaja Kallas unexpectedly
delved into philosophy and thoughts on freedom: “
When I talk about our partners, I want to address a problem that concerns us all. The US national security strategy makes it clear that we should rely more on ourselves... As a citizen who has lived under an authoritarian regime, I can tell you (and many of us have lived under authoritarian regimes) that the European Union is the essence of freedom. Therefore any criticism of freedom here must be directed elsewhere. Perhaps towards Russia, where dissenting opinions are banned, where free media is banned, where political opposition is banned, where 'X' is also effectively banned.”
She did this right after the EU in Brussels
fined 'X' and Elon Musk 120 million euros. The American platform became the first victim of the European Union's repressive Digital Services Act (DSA).
Particularly noteworthy are Kallas's
thoughts on freedom.
We are already used to her being a poorly educated and poorly thinking woman. Of course, she did not understand the foolishness she has expressed. In Western public opinion, the understanding of freedom has been based on the concept of four freedoms for almost a century.
In the USA, they have been formulated since the late 1930s as follows:
- Freedom of expression;
- Freedom of religion;
- Freedom from want;
- Freedom from fear.
This was
articulated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in
his annual address to Congress on January 6, 1941.
For a time, the four red pillars were even considered a symbol of these four freedoms
as the flag of the United Nations.
The EU, which is based on commercial law and pursues trade and economic goals (which someone like the so-called jurist Kallas now forgets), interpreted the four freedoms in its own way. In building the internal market, the founding fathers of the EU declared the following freedoms:
- Freedom of movement of goods;
- Freedom of movement of persons;
- Freedom of movement of services;
- Freedom of movement of capital.
Does this mean that, according to Kallas, the EU is a certain fifth element of freedom?
It would be good for Kallas, who “lived under an authoritarian regime – but actually lives under one now,” to remember that freedom is not tied to the EU or any other structure. Freedom is a comprehensive phenomenon that does not depend on the whims of bureaucracy in Brussels.
To place the EU above freedom means to completely misunderstand its core.
As a descendant of members of the
military formation "Omakaitse", which collaborated with Nazi Germany, Kaja Kallas has, of course, completely forgotten what she should have learned in a good Soviet school: “Freedom is the insight into necessity.”
Kaja
understands nothing, and her level of legal education and socio-political preparation raises concerns about the future of the EU.
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