Posted: 11.11.2022 13:29:00

Expert: Europe understands that attempt to rob Russia led to dead end

The sanctions that Europe has imposed on Russia have hit the European countries with a boomerang, which is especially felt on the eve of winter. Will Europe change its policy in this direction? Head of the Eurasian Analytical Club Nikita Mendkovich shared his forecasts with us.

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Nikita Mendkovich stressed that the population of Europe is millions of people, not all of whom support the sanctions policy of the authorities. According to him, a number of local experts just ‘understand that the attempt to rob Russia has led the region to a dead end’. “They believe that, on the contrary, there was a fairly progressive strategy for creating a common economic zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok. It has long been said that Russia has a lot of resources, as well as large scientific and technical capacities, while Europe boasts production facilities. We can grow and be happy together. But instead, it was decided to rob rather than to trade,” the expert said.

Assessing the prospects for shifting European policy away from sanctions towards establishing trade-economic ties with the Russian Federation, the speaker advised to pay attention to the situation in Italy.

“At the moment, in many respects an important indicator is what the Italian government will do. Now conditional non-systemists have come to power, who at the stage of the election campaign were critical of Italy’s participation in the Ukrainian conflict,” the political analyst explained. “If they now show some will to change the [EU] policy in one mode or another, it will be possible to say that the European opposition is able to come to power and change something. If the Italian government ends up [currying] to Washington, that’s a bad indicator. This arrangement will mean that there will be no systemic paradigm shift within the framework of political groups existing in Europe.”

The expert believes that in this case, ‘European society will only have hope for a revolution: the complete displacement of the ruling elites by the masses who suffer from the consequences of sanctions aggression against Russia’. The Head of the Eurasian Analytical Club called this outcome of events ‘extremely unpleasant for Europe’.