Attacking a sovereign nation because you want to own them is what anyone else would do? That's kind of fucking terrifying from my Canadian p perspective.
I love how they screeched about deep state shit for years and now that we have a shadow government operating in plain sight, they're completely fine with it.
They were little children. They ran to the deep state and asked it to help protect them from the deep state (and people of color, and women, and transgender people, and gays...)
Across state-controlled Russian media, disparaging references to “the collective West” and “Anglo-Saxons” – thinly-veiled diplomatic code for US-led states – have been quietly dropped. Instead, it’s just what the Kremlin calls “the old world” of Europe, without its US partner, being singled out for criticism.
Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg delivers keynote address on "the current state of the war in Ukraine and how the war might end," on Thursday, March 6.
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But “if we simplify it, everything now is decided by the great troika - Russia, China and US - that will form the new structure of the world. The European Union as a single political force no longer exists,” he adds.
In Russia, the heavily-controlled media reflects the mood of the Kremlin, as do the words of Russian officials now driving home US-European divisions while flip-flopping on Washington’s historical record.
“I do not want to be anti-European,” claimed Sergey Lavrov, the veteran Russian foreign minister. “However…. all the tragedies of the world originated in Europe or happened thanks to European policy. Colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War One, Adolf Hitler. If we look at history in retrospect, the Americans did not play any instigating or even inflammatory role,” he insisted in an interview posted on the official foreign ministry website.