A Diplomatic Impasse at the UN

BY CASSANDRA 

On June 2, 2025, the announcement of Annalena Baerbock's nomination as President of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly for 2025-2026 aroused in me a deep emotion, a mixture of indignation and astonishment.

While she proclaims to defend peace, security, development, and human rights, Baerbock is best known for her pathological Russophobia, exemplified by her belligerent declaration in 2023: "We will wage war on Russia." Her gaffe at the Munich Security Conference in February 2023, where she spoke of a "360-degree turn" for a hypothetical change of direction by Putin, was mocked worldwide, particularly by Russian officials, as a geometric absurdity revealing a stagnation in belligerence. This "turnabout," which takes us back to square one, betrays a glaring lack of enlightened direction and intellectual and diplomatic competence, fundamental qualities for guiding the UN.

The strange absence of other candidates for this position reinforces suspicions of the instrumentalisation of international institutions. This sentiment echoes what prompted me, in April 2025, to write an article addressing the revisionist excesses surrounding the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazism. The following text is reproduced in its entirety from this initial version, faithful to my cry of alarm.

Since the Russian special operation of February 2022, each May 9th has revived a wave of deleterious interpretations in the West: a scandalous rereading of history minimizes the contribution of the Red Army, while threats, such as those of Kaja Kallas against the leaders participating in the commemorations in Moscow, or of Volodymyr Zelensky, claiming not to guarantee their security despite a three-day ceasefire, fuel tensions. Twenty-four days after this May 9th, 2025, when thirty heads of state, including those of China, Brazil, and India, defied these pressures to honor the victory, revealing Europe's isolation, Baerbock's appointment heightens my concerns. With Kallas at the helm of European diplomacy, Europe and the UN seem entrusted to incendiary figures, far removed from the reason necessary for peace, while the Istanbul talks are stalled and Russian-Ukrainian tensions persist.

This is my cry of alarm, more urgent than ever in the face of this historical and geopolitical disaster.

My Cry for History

As the author of this article, I am a citizen outraged by current geopolitical developments and the increasing manipulation of historical memories by certain European elites. My point of view reflects a popular feeling of revolt against what I perceive as the instrumentalisation of history in the service of dangerous international policies disconnected from the deepest aspirations of the people.

For the time being, I prefer to remain anonymous and publish under the pseudonym Cassandre G., for personal reasons, particularly to protect my family's safety. This choice is not a limitation, but a protection in an increasingly tense climate, where dissenting speech can attract reprisals.

The pseudonym I have chosen, Cassandre G., is not insignificant. Cassandra, in Greek mythology, is a figure both tragic and luminous, endowed with the gift of truth but condemned to never be believed. She sees the truth, she speaks the truth, but her warnings are ignored, at the cost of disaster. By taking on this name, I reclaim this difficult but necessary role: that of sounding the alarm, even at the risk of being forgotten or rejected. For it is sometimes more important to be fair than to be heard.

This article, through its sincerity and vigour, aims to alert and provoke reflection, and I believe it has its rightful place in an alternative medium, so that as many people as possible can grasp the threat that weighs today on historical memory, and beyond that, on world peace.

There are times when History, which we believed to be firmly etched in the collective consciousness, falters under the weight of ignorance, pride, and a political cynicism that has become doctrine. One such deeply shocking moment recently occurred when Kaja Kallas, now European Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, publicly threatened states and leaders who participated in the May 9 commemorations, the date of the victory over Nazism.

These remarks were not a blunder. They reveal an avowed revisionism, a visceral hatred disguised as virtue, and a European foreign policy now reduced to a single obsession: provoking and isolating Russia, at all costs. The fact that Kallas was not elected is not insignificant: she embodies this disconnected European technostructure, cut off from the people, and driven by an ideological zeal whose historical overtones should alarm all clear-headed minds.

Need we remind you that the USSR lost 27 million lives in the fight against Nazism, including 16 million civilians? That without the Eastern Front, the outcome of the war would have been quite different? Should we recall that this victory of May 9th is not solely Russian, but European, human, universal, a milestone in our common resistance to absolute evil?

That it marks the defeat of absolute evil, and that any attempt to sully or erase it constitutes a despicable, unworthy, and profoundly dangerous act?

But more than indignation, it is cold-blooded analysis that must be summoned. For rampant revisionism is not born of accidental forgetting, but of a memorial strategy, often linked to a repressed family, social, or national heritage. Kallas, like certain figures from Baltic or Germanic elitist circles, seems to be prolonging a distorted memory, marked by the concealment of a sometimes minimised past of collaboration.

It is no coincidence that some European leaders studiously avoid recalling their own countries' role in the crimes of World War II, preferring to divert commemorations toward a vague anti-communism, or toward a demonisation of Russia that ultimately erases Nazi crimes in the name of a new moral crusade.

From there to legitimising Ukrainian neo-Nazis as "defenders of democracy" is only a small step—one taken blithely by certain media outlets, parliamentarians, and even European leaders. The dispatch of Leopard tanks, Macron's martial speeches, the "survival kit" distributed by a commissioner, and the proliferation of outrageous military budgets (€800 billion planned) are not signs of defense: they are symptoms of a society that has lost the connection between memory, reality, and truth.

And in this frenzy, European citizens themselves become hostages to a shadow game where fear is cultivated, peace marginalised, and truth distorted. The strategy is clear: to distract people from their economic suffering and political disillusionment by creating an absolute external enemy. Russia is not a geopolitical adversary, but a symbolic outlet. And for this, history itself must be falsified.

But history does not forgive being trampled on with impunity. Against these manipulations, there exists a realpolitik of the just: one that refuses compromise, that keeps intact the memory of the resistance fighters, the liberators, the anonymous people who fought against absolutism, fascism, and hatred. The memory that does not confuse the legacy of Nazism with the fantasies of a modern crusade.

So yes, it is time to name those responsible. To remember those who, in the 1930s and 1940s, supported Hitler, collaborated with him, or turned a blind eye to his crimes. To denounce those who, in their families, circles, and institutions, have passed on a distorted, shameful, and sometimes proud memory of that era. These are often the same people who today accuse Russia of all evils, while whitewashing the history of the real criminals.

And if Europe still wants to live up to its name, it must rediscover the voice of the righteous and remember that May 9th does not belong to Russia alone, but to all of humanity. Those who want to ban it, smear it, or forget it are not the guardians of peace: they are its gravediggers.

Conclusion of this June 4, 2025

Twenty-four days after May 9, 2025, the presence of thirty heads of state, including those of China, Brazil, and India, in Moscow, despite threats from Kaja Kallas and Volodymyr Zelensky, has exposed Europe's isolation in its revisionist crusade. The appointment of Annalena Baerbock as president of the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, announced on June 2, 2025, exacerbates these fears. Her rhetoric advocating peace contrasts with her overt Russophobia, illustrated by her 2023 declaration ("we will wage war on Russia") and her absurd allusion to a "360-degree turn," revealing diplomatic incompetence.

Her election, without any notable opposition, and his ambiguous references to her grandfather, a Wehrmacht officer, raise questions about the neutrality of international institutions.

With Kallas at the helm of European diplomacy, Europe and the UN seem entrusted to figures more driven by belligerent rhetoric than by reason, in a context where the Istanbul talks have failed to bring peace and where Russo-Ukrainian tensions persist.

The voice of Cassandra, that of the ignored truth, still resonates: defending the memory of May 9 means rejecting the falsification of history and demanding a diplomacy of reason. For to remember is to resist.

Cassandra G — Spring 2025

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