Ulrike Guérot is a political thinker from Germany. She is the Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab (EDL). In April 2016, the University for Continuing Education Krems designated Ulrike Guérot as Professor for European Policy and the Study of Democracy. In the wake of the Russian attack on Ukraine in 2022, Guérot was blamed for reversing the roles of perpetrator and victim.
Ulrike Guérot has been accused of victim blaming in the context of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. She was criticised for her assertions that Ukraine had prompted Russia and that Putin only wanted security guarantees. Consequently, the student parliament of the University of Bonn unanimously urged Guérot to stop making remarks on the subject that harmed the reputation of the university.
Guérot was also accused of making unsubstantiated claims, such as falsely declaring that German weapons deliveries made Germany a party to the war and rejecting Ukraine’s right to self-defence. In 2022, she authored a book entitled Endgame Europa, which presented as an essay on the Ukraine conflict and its importance for the “political project of Europe”.
By taking up key matters of the Russian reading of the dispute, she assigned Ukraine the
“role of a warmonger who initiated a war with Russia on behalf of the West”.
She said, that if one looks at
“the Western preparations for war in detail”,
“it becomes clear that Ukraine had the role of starting a war with Russia on behalf of the West, which was then to be backed militarily and logistically by NATO member states, without engaging the alliance as a whole and directly in the war. This process was to be escorted by an economic war (sanctions), information warfare (anti-Russian propaganda) and a nuclear blockade of Russia”,
in the service of a US pursuit for complete dominance.
In February 2023, Guérot was one of the initial signers of Manifest für Frieden, a petition calling for an end to military aid for Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
