MEP Slams EU's Support of Ukraine: 'Stop Inciting and Feeding War' (Video)

Marcel de Graaff is a Dutch politician who serves as a member of the European Parliament. In the following speech from the floor of the European Parliament, Mr. de Graaff calls out the European Union and NATO for their enlistment of Ukraine to fight a proxy war in a bid to take down Russia:

Mr. de Graaff was formerly a member of the FvD (Forum voor Democratie, Forum for Democracy) but has said he has distanced himself from the “extremely bellicose position of the ID group” and what he considers to be an anti-Russian course. According to him, the group is trying to silence him regarding his position on NATO and Ukraine.

Ik stap uit de ID groep in het Europees Parlement. Hun poging mij de mond te snoeren over NAVO/Oekraïne is onverteerbaar. We moeten de oorlog met Rusland deëscaleren. Het is niet onze oorlog maar onze mensen betalen de prijs. Ik wil een nieuwe groep vormen die dit ondersteunt! pic.twitter.com/bRpzqcahQz

— Marcel de Graaff🇳🇱 (@MJRLdeGraaff) October 24, 2022

The ID group consists of various conservative political parties in the European Parliament. In addition to FvD from the Netherlands, the Belgian Vlaams Belang, the French Rassemblement National from Marine le Pen, and Lega from Matteo Salvini from Italy also belong.

De Graaff was suspended for three months last week for being too pro-Russian in the conflict with Ukraine. The other parties in the ID group have been on good terms with Putin in recent years, but since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the pro-Russian position has gradually become more distant.

In the following speech from the floor of the European Parliament, Mr. de Graaff calls out the European Union and NATO for their enlistment of Ukraine to fight a proxy war in a bid to take down Russia:

MEP De Graaff wants to form a new group with parties who, like him, want the sanctions against Russia to be ended. He also wants to stop military and financial support to Ukraine, with the aim of “de-escalating the conflict.”

“We must engage in constructive dialogue so that we can achieve peace and prosperity,” he writes. “We are fighting a war that is not our own, and our citizens are paying the price.”

Vaccination coercion

As far as he is concerned, this newly formed group should also endorse “respect for the autonomy of the member states” and that there should be no compulsion to vaccinate.

De Graaff has been in the European Parliament for ten years and did so for the PVV for a long time. Earlier this year, he switched to FvD because his previous party supported the use of the corona vaccines. In January, he said that Forum for Democracy is the only party “that actually understands that we are not dealing with a pandemic or a covid crisis at all.”