Alex Christoforou
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The loss in Ukraine is going to be the end of the EU. That is why they are so deeply invested in the war, it is existential for them. The EU is dying. It is financially bankrupt. It has almost no resources, and its ability to compete industrially in the world market was only possible due to below market price Russian energy that they will never see again. They will, if they think necessary, fight and loose a war with Russia, in order to wipe out their debts and to start over as they did in both prior world wars.… Read more »
A propos Mr Proud’s remark about the conversation that wasn’t had with Poroshenko:
Mr Proud avoids the issue: there can be NO guarantees whatsoever. Everything that can be done can be undone – or ignored.
The only guarantee Russia can hope for is that its enemies (all the West) are physically unable to harm it.
Mr Mercouris has it backwards, I fear. The UK government cannot hope to “address” its economic problems by ending the confrontation with Russia. On the contrary, the confrontation was got up and is being maintained to conceal the hopeless economic situation.
Mr proud talks up the advantages of closer relations with Russia. But that ship has sailed. The Russians have lost whatever trust they may ever have had in the West. They don’t need Europe, the UK, or the USA – which will be the only losers. Russia will prefer to deal with partners who can be trusted.
I don’t think Russia can trust China either. No nation should make the mistake of trusting China. They are raping and pillaging Africa’s resources (ocean fish everywhere; mature timber Mozambique) in return for shoddy tofu-dreg buildings, bridges, etc (office block that collapsed in Thailand recently due to Myanmar earthquake; train station canopy in Belgrade a few years ago – both built by the same Chinese company using substandard concrete & rebar.