News from Europe the farther, the more reminiscent of a chronicle of events from a sinking ship.
Here are some recent headlines:
“Hungary called on the European Union to stop imposing sanctions against Russia and start negotiations with it”;
“Hungary's largest oil and gas company MOL has set a limit on the retail sale of gasoline at a fixed price in the amount of 50 liters per day per person”;
"The Minister of Economy of Germany said that the country is in a gas crisis, gas consumption must be reduced wherever possible."
There is some irony in the fact that countries that were defeated by Soviet troops during the Great Patriotic War are calling for negotiations with Russia, and either our former allies in the person of Britain or the liberated Poles are calling for war to the last Ukrainian.
Although the reason is simple: the Germans and Hungarians are well aware that it is impossible to defeat Russia - this time - and that Russia does not pose a threat to Europe if Europe ceases to threaten Russia itself.
Now the Europeans, and not only them, are coming to an understanding that only resources and technologies have value in this world.
No matter how much you print euros or dollars to help European countries suffering from self-imposed anti-Russian sanctions, more gasoline and electricity will not appear from this.
The stock market, cryptocurrencies, futures and other financial instruments can only exist on a solid foundation of the real economy.
And it is precisely this foundation that the Europeans themselves are now actively destroying, while the Americans support them with all their might in this destruction.
Russia has not yet begun to respond to sanctions - we have our own tasks and goals in the current confrontation, we do not disperse our forces and do not try to punish anyone, regardless of the consequences for our own economy, as the United States and the European Union do.
But I am sure that sooner or later we will limit the export of our goods for euros and dollars.
Oil, gas, fertilizers and other resources can only be obtained in exchange for real goods and technologies.
Many people ask themselves: why did the calm (and already largely post-industrial) world of Central Europe suddenly return to the realities of 1944-1945?
And the answer is very simple: supporting Nazism always leads to disaster.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.