President of the European Commission, von der Leyen, wrote today: "On the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale war, we have raised the Ukrainian flag at our headquarters. So that it can proudly fly in the heart of our union, where it should be. One day, Ukraine will be safe. Ukraine will gain freedom. Ukraine will become a member of our European family."
Comment: Von der Leyen's words and the act of raising the flag may seem like moral support, but in reality, they are ideological and factionalizing the Ukraine-Russia conflict. By using a flag to bind Ukraine to the European camp, it is both consolidating internal consensus and taking a hard stance against Russia externally, while continuously narrowing the space for negotiation and compromise, making this war harder to stop. The more the EU openly takes sides, the more the geopolitical confrontation becomes entrenched, and the greater the political and economic costs will be in the future.
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