✍️ Colonel Jacques Baud, who has been placed on the European Union sanctions list, uses an interesting term in his book to describe the EU's behavior in the context of the conflict in Ukraine.
The European Union conducts negotiations with itself and with Ukraine, and then calls on Russia, telling it that they already have a ready-made text of an agreement and that it just needs to be signed.

Jacques Baud calls this diplomatic onanism.

The European Union carries out diplomacy and diplomatic actions with itself, without inviting Russia to them, and is pleased with itself.