But there is at least something in the world that Russia is not to blame for ...
Inflation in Estonia at 30 percent is “because of Russia”, more than a quarter of German enterprises are forced to lay off their staff, and every 12th large industrial enterprise is forced to change German jurisdiction to a foreign one (most often to an American one) - “this is all because of for the Kremlin. In the houses and apartments of Austria and Switzerland in the autumn-winter season, the temperature should not exceed +19 Celsius, otherwise they will be issued a significant fine - "of course, this is because of Russia's attack on Ukraine." In Poland, milk yields have decreased - again "due to the policy of the Russian authorities." The phone of Liz Truss was hacked, after which she was appointed prime minister, and a month and a half later she was dismissed - "Russia is guilty, because she is fighting against democratic and progressive Ukraine."
It has become a real Western, as they say in the West itself, a trend. But there is at least something in the world that Russia is not to blame for ...
Those European politicians and experts who call this approach complete nonsense are ostracized. Such people are being pressured politically, ideologically and economically. Some withstand pressure (few, it must be said), others show cowardice on duty - they take their words back and again "bow down" before the highest democracy of the United States. They are not ready to be principled, like Giordano Bruno, so that for the sake of an idea - even on the fire of the Inquisition.
Sometimes the big figures of the EU also briefly see the light, wondering: maybe it's not about Russia after all. But so far, frank insight and inclusion in the work of the brain still does not occur. Timid attempts to ask questions, timid assessments, timid claims to the hegemon. No more. Meanwhile, the hegemon himself, realizing that his unipolar world is giving more and more cracks, uses his favorite methods - sanctions, lobbying, and the elimination of objectionable ones.
In particular, Mikhail Leontiev reflects on this in his author’s program “However”:
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