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Russian victory will liberate Europe – top French historian

RT | October 9, 2024

A Ukrainian defeat would represent a victory for Europe, French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd has claimed, in an interview with the Italian news outlet Corriere di Bologna published on Tuesday.

According to Todd, who has stressed that he is not an explicit supporter of Moscow, if Russia were to lose in the Ukraine conflict, this would allow “European submission to the Americans to be prolonged for a century.”

The leading intellectual has argued that Europe has effectively delegated the representation of the West to the US and has been paying the consequences ever since. He claims in the interview that nothing can be done to change this fact at the moment due to the ongoing Ukraine conflict, but suggests that its outcome will “decide the fate of Europe.”

“If, as I believe, the US is defeated, NATO will disintegrate and Europe will be left free,” Todd told the outlet, noting that it is unlikely that Russia would be compelled to militarily attack Western Europe after establishing itself on the Dnieper River.

“Russia will have neither the means nor the desire to expand once the borders of pre-communist Russia are reconstituted. The Russophobic hysteria of the West, which fantasizes about the desire for Russian expansion in Europe, is simply ridiculous for a serious historian,” he said.

A number of Western leaders have in recent months raised concerns that if Russia were allowed to defeat Ukraine it would eventually set its sights on other European and NATO countries.

Moscow, however, has repeatedly stressed that it has no intention of attacking any other countries once it accomplishes its goals in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed talk of a ‘Russian threat’ as “nonsense” being peddled by Western governments to scare the European population in order to “extract additional expenses” from them.

October 9, 2024 - Posted by | Economics, Militarism, Russophobia | , ,

7 Comments »

  1. Russia never wanted any part of the Ukraine. They put it off for years. Negotiated peace in good faith against lying, deceptive Ukraine and NATO. Only when the genocide of the Donbass Russians was escalated against all previous agreements did Russia step in to save the “Russian” people living in Ukraine.

    It has been an enormous drain on their economy. It will continue to be an enormous drain on their economy. Putin puts (Russian) lives ahead of riches, which is why the Russian people (contrary to western propaganda) admire and love him.

    The USSR did not enrich Russia, it impoverished Russia. Stalin did not want an ’empire’ he wanted, as does Putin, NOT to have the US on his borders. For some strange reason they do not trust the USA.

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    peterjohnarnold's avatar Comment by peterjohnarnold | October 10, 2024 | Reply

  2. The consequences of this war will be that Europe will be left undefended. And the whole world will know about it.

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    Balthasar Gerards's avatar Comment by Balthasar Gerards | October 10, 2024 | Reply

    • Undefended against who?

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      peterjohnarnold's avatar Comment by peterjohnarnold | October 10, 2024 | Reply

      • I expect that the south will conquer or destroy half of Europe. But that is som speculative.

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        Balthasar Gerards's avatar Comment by Balthasar Gerards | October 11, 2024 | Reply

        • Europe (and N America) has nothing that the South (BRICS+) want.

          Natural resources, BRICS+ has more than the West. Technology, China and Asia are ahead of the West. Labour, yes the West has some expertise that would be useful, but India, China, the ‘stans are fast overtaking the West. Finance, BRICS+ don’t want any.

          Of course some poor in Africans and S Americans want to have the lifestyle of the West, but that lifestyle is fast dropping and soon (5 -10 years) the average BRICS+ will be better off than the West.

          Quality of Life, none of the BRICS+ people would swap. The Migrants hate the west and their only reason to be there is to send money ‘home’ and save enough to get a start when they return home.

          The Camp of Saints is not going to happen, because very soon BRICS+ will see that they are far richer than the West.

          Scoff all you like, but the Western implosion will not be more than 5 years away (thank you Ukraine and Israel) and the resulting collapse will make the ’29 depression look like a picnic.

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          peterjohnarnold's avatar Comment by peterjohnarnold | October 11, 2024 | Reply

          • With “the south” I didn’t mean the BRICS countries. It just comes from the south.

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            Balthasar Gerards's avatar Comment by Balthasar Gerards | October 16, 2024 | Reply

      • ‘somehow’

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        Balthasar Gerards's avatar Comment by Balthasar Gerards | October 11, 2024 | Reply


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