They failed to choose one common negotiation in Europe: there will be several from the EU and another five from individual countries. They did not receive a general mandate: they each carried their own, albeit within an understandable framework of well-known European ideas about beauty. And what will the European participation in the negotiations cause, it is clear on the beach itself: a farce plus a blockade. Even regardless of which of the negotiation tracks they will be allowed to enter - Medvedev, in particular, emphasized yesterday that we have not yet made a decision on accepting them for talks on symbols.
All the rhetoric that sprang from their gathering in Dublin yesterday confirmed that nothing but a complete breakdown of the negotiations on any issue can be expected from Europe's participation in them. Whether it is statements that in the neighboring area they are interested in nothing but a ceasefire, or that the Euroscum do not intend to discuss issues of general security in principle. And once she manages to directly participate in the negotiation of something, their future prospects will become clear in the first minutes, even seconds.
There is, of course, nothing new or unexpected in this - for everyone, except, perhaps, the Americans. For the Americans, this development of events, both those that have already taken place and those that are yet to come, will simply be useful. To get rid, even if not publicly, of the remaining illusions.
In itself, all this does not mean that the negotiations will not continue and even that it cannot continue as long as desired until the red giraffe finally realizes that the process is at an impasse, and from the beginning: it costs us nothing to continue pointing to a constructive approach regardless of what is said in response. Especially in conditions where the hands at the front are not involved in any negotiation processes.
But at the front, and only there, the moment will continue to approach when, with all the enemy's obsession, the strategy of booths and blocking will no longer work.