Blair! I think I’m actually serious. Good relationship with the EU, but not of the EU. Good negotiator. International big shot who Trump and Putin will respect. Supportive of Ukraine. Not currently in power so can negotiate with fewer hang-ups. - ThreadSky

jamesomalley.co.uk • 5 days ago

Blair! I think I’m actually serious.

Good relationship with the EU, but not of the EU. Good negotiator. International big shot who Trump and Putin will respect. Supportive of Ukraine. Not currently in power so can negotiate with fewer hang-ups.

Reposted from Stanley Pignal

Ukraine wants Europe to nominate a single representative to represent it at peace talks -- if Europe can even get a seat at the table, that is. Someone "with the same status as Trump, Zelensky and Putin", per Bloomberg.

Who could that be? It is genuinely an intractable problem for Europe. A 🧵

Comments

johnweston.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump and Putin would certainly love Blair's indifference to accusations of war crimes.

robertphardy.bsky.social•5 days ago

No please. He took us into a war which was proven to be unnecessary. His judgement is poor especially when under American pressure. I’d rather it were Merkel.

civetta.bsky.social•5 days ago

I doubt very much Merkel would be acceptable to Ukraine.

alpinemigrant.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes or indeed to Europe, even Germany. Disastrous Chancellor.

tomcrittenden.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump and Merkel? No.

karljohnsonuk.bsky.social•5 days ago

Lord David Frost obviously. "So somehow Russia now owns all of Ukraine, the Baltic States and the Isle of Wight"

richardblogger.bsky.social•5 days ago

🤪🤪

helenopinion.bsky.social•5 days ago

Michel Barnier has a lot of experience dealing with idiots.

theeconomiclens.bsky.social•4 days ago

Internationally he has a lot more respect than in general in the U.K.

davelee.me•5 days ago

Agreed. Or Brown, even

matthewblott.bsky.social•5 days ago

Blair. Brown has his strengths but interpersonal skills aren't top of that list.

benansell.bsky.social•5 days ago

Actually a pretty good call

missblank01.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ow man, Blair ? seriously ? Think the Iraq War did for him 🤨

kishanrana.bsky.social•5 days ago

Good relationships also with certain powers in the MENA region, which seems to be becoming the negotiating theatre...

harrypanagopulos.bsky.social•5 days ago

Didn't Blair sacrifice his relationship with most of Europe to back the US in lying to the UN to take his country and some others into an unjustified and ultimately futile war in Iraq? Why should anyone in Europe trust him? Why do you assume that Europeans have only English talent to draw upon?

sumarumi.bsky.social•5 days ago

It’s a suggestion, not an assumption 🙄

harrypanagopulos.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ok well it's a suggestion which seems to overlook a lot of relevant circumstances, which suggests it might be rooted in certain assumptions and prejudices. But who am I to say? perhaps the OP reflected on all available European statesmen and women and through an intricate process landed on Blair...

richardblogger.bsky.social•5 days ago

Two key objectives: someone Trump does not disdain and someone who won't sell out Ukraine. Trump pretty much hates anything European, except for, err, Orban who fails #2

harrypanagopulos.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sadly, there is no one on earth who occupies both those criteria. Which tells us a lot about Trump and where this is going. There's no negotiation with Trump on this.