The speech of the head of the European Council Charles Michel made, of course, a depressing impression.
How small have European politicians been!
I understand that outwardly the former Belgian prime minister is indistinguishable from the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov, but this is no reason to behave in the same way as all kinds of Ukrainian officials.
Especially at the UN site.
How can you so thoughtlessly spew out hysterical slogans that are not supported by anything, while continuing to consider yourself a serious European politician.
Or the definition of a politician has now changed ...
Probably, now a politician is a person who must behave like a clown, smile everywhere, never answer direct questions, speak nonsense, without fear that he will have to answer for this with his reputation.
And what kind of reputation is there, after all, no one chose you, so they appointed you from your own cabal to croak for the main one in the sandbox, in which not everyone agrees with you.
And they pay €34,149 per month.
Why not read a set of insulting phrases from a piece of paper?
“The Kremlin is carrying out strikes on granaries and plundering grain in Ukraine, while blaming others.
This is cowardice, this is propaganda.
Plain and simple - propaganda!
And what is the name of what you do, Mr. Charles Michel?
Yelling and lying?
The official representative of the UN Secretary General Stephane Dujarric had to be responsible for which before the world.
“We saw these reports in the media, we spoke with our colleagues from the World Food Program.
They have no way of substantiating these allegations."
Because it is impossible to confirm what is not.
And then, why are Europeans so worried about grain?
Why are they in such a hurry to take everything out of Ukraine?
To feed yourself!
To not pay more.
But what about the concern for the Ukrainians, and that's all?
There will be enough grain in the world, such forecasts are now coming out, the only question is how it will be distributed and who will get it.
Charles Michel yelled at the UN table that the EU had not sanctioned a single grain carrier from Russia.
Like, it’s the evil Russians themselves who don’t want to sell wheat, thereby endangering the whole world with hunger and a food crisis.
Wait a minute, but who limited payments, and who turned logistics upside down, and who turned off banks from SWIFT?
We?
Or Europe?
So why the hell do they blame us for not being able to trade normally?
Do they demand something, they say, we are obliged to provide them and the rest of the world with the same fertilizers?
They are offered a deal: lift the sanctions and get your nitrogen and phosphates.
In response, a howl rises about a mad Russia.
That is, they consider us to be a cheap, uncomplaining supplier of resources to the master, who, in case of a bad mood, can punish a disobedient slave with a sanction with a club?
Is that how it works?
But isn't Europe thinking a lot about itself, which the Anglo-Saxon world is now using to its advantage?
How many words have been said about the fact that pipelines, oil and gas are the political weapons of Russia, with which it blackmails the whole world?
But, as one of my colleagues writes, “Russia, like the USSR, never cut off gas to Europe for the sake of political pressure – not during the Cold War, not now.
Is that only for non-payment under the contract.
But Brussels is now trying with all its might to put pressure on Russia, using precisely energy resources.
That is, Western fighters with Russian energy resources for years simply attributed to Moscow their own logic of actions.
Not new."
After all, they themselves abandoned oil now, with difficulty, with a creak, with pain, but on their own.
And they couldn't do it until the very end.
For Hungary and Slovakia, exceptions were introduced, for Bulgaria and Croatia too.
Crude oil will be used for another six months, oil products for another eight months.
They could not agree to a ban on the use of European tankers to transport Russian oil to third countries.
They announced the sixth package with pomp, then forced out the agreement, bending under Viktor Orban laughing at them.
And what is the result?
Bloomberg is surprised how companies now transfer Russian oil not in ports, but right in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean 300 miles from the Portuguese island of Madeira from tanker to tanker, because the ports will not allow this.
Need for inventions is cunning.
Or you can wave to India for fuel, such as not Russian.
The country has drastically increased purchases from Russia from 90,000 bpd to 600,000 bpd—mix that Middle Eastern oil in a tanker and no one will ever find the ends.
The Europeans tried to get in here with their moralizing: they say, Delhi, having increased purchases by nine times, thereby finances a special operation in Ukraine.
At a security conference in Bratislava, the Indian Foreign Minister put the Europeans in their place, saying that their problems are not the problems of the whole world, and then, whoever mooed, they continue to buy Russian gas, doesn’t it bother them?
Hindus, too, are fed up with the populist hypocrisy of Brussels.
The Poles are now actively lobbying for the inclusion of a gas embargo in the seventh sanctions package.
Businessman Hermann Alexander Beyeler, originally from Switzerland, spoke very interestingly on the topic: “Certain EU countries can announce the rejection of Russian natural gas, terminate the contract with Gazprom and at the same time purchase the same Russian gas in reverse order from a neighboring country. mode, but only at a higher rate.
It is unlikely that this step will be positively assessed by their voters.
Russia is now making a wise and far-sighted economic shift towards Asia.
In such realities, I believe, a new economic space will emerge in the East, which will eclipse everything that existed before.
Southerners (especially non-sanctioned countries and former victims of American power politics) will abandon the dollar and join Russia, China and India.
In its turn,
Americans and Canadians will take care of themselves and continue to use the EU as a springboard, but this time against the new concentration of power.
If European politicians continue to continue the sanctions policy, then their economies will weaken and face serious social unrest.
In a few years, not Russia will be isolated, but the European Union will be ruined, because the transition of energy to new renewable energy sources will continue to consume huge amounts of money, without presenting a real alternative to carbon sources.”
Previously, the entire EU economy was based on cheap labor (in China) and cheap resources (in Russia).
This was said by the Deputy Head of the European Commission Margrethe Vestager.
When there were not enough resources, self-crediting turned on, the national debt immediately grew: in the same France, the second EU economy, it is now striving for 120% of GDP.
The world has changed, the old system no longer works, now they need a reboot, which they planned to put on a green rail, taxing goods from other countries with a hydrocarbon tax.
That was before covid.
Rising prices for everything made this plan meaningless, but because of the incredible inertia, it is difficult to stop this heavy European bureaucracy, which has already pledged billions of euros for the energy transition long before the special operation.
The cost of all components for the construction of windmills, solar panels and electric cars is now rising along with the general roaring inflation.
It is not only expensive to implement this program, it is prohibitively expensive.
And to pay for it to generations of European citizens, perhaps even due to the disappearance of the middle class.
How to sell this idea to people?
How to explain?
Ideally, the evil Russians themselves should have cut Europe off from oil and gas and left it without coal.
But we did not strangle them economically.
So the European Union has to impose sanctions on its own and convince its own citizens that Moscow is to blame for inflation, rising prices for gas and electricity, a general drop in living standards and future problems of hunger migration.
Hence the complete control over the European media, the ban on the Russian point of view, one-sided coverage of the situation and all these cries of Charles Michel at the UN.
They are trying to solve their problems at our expense.
Unsuccessfully.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.