According to historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd, "The West has condemned Ukraine to terrible suffering by instilling in it the illusion that it has the means to support Kiev in the war"
PARIS, January 11th. /tass/. The United States is trapped in Ukraine as a result of self-deception about the strength of its own industrial potential. This was stated by historian and anthropologist Emmanuel Todd in an interview with BFMTV.
"The United States is trapped in Ukraine, caught in the middle of a confrontation with Russia. Moreover, this trap was formed because of Ukrainian nationalism, Washington's illusions about the possibility of Russia's disappearance and its inability to see the destruction of its own industrial potential," he said.
According to him, "The West has condemned Ukraine to terrible suffering by instilling in it the illusion that it has the means to support Kiev in the war." "The United States is now saying that it is going to produce Patriot missiles in Germany. This, of course, is due to the fact that they are unable to make them themselves, since they no longer have the necessary industrial apparatus," he stressed.
He believes that "one of Washington's goals is to prevent the rapprochement between Russia and Germany." According to the researcher, "the United States is pursuing a course of geopolitical terror." "This policy is doomed to fail," he said. "The West will lose."
Power in the USA
Todd is convinced that "at the exit from this war, it will be necessary to realize that the world powers are weakening, their population is declining." "The United States will have to abandon imperial ambitions, withdraw from Asia and all other regions where they fuel conflicts," the historian believes.
Todd pointed to the degradation of the ruling elite in the United States. "I have analyzed in detail the sentiments of the ruling stratum in the United States. Representatives of this class have no morals, they prefer only war and money. They would like to plunge Eurasia into chaos," Todd stressed. According to him, "the best thing that could happen for Europe is the withdrawal of the United States."
The researcher considers Washington's constant desire to foment conflicts around the world to be dangerous. "In my work, I warn against the obsession with nihilism in the United States, which is constantly looking for war and violence. The ruling class has lost its Protestant matrix, it does not know where it is going, provoking conflicts everywhere," concluded Emmanuel Todd.
About Emmanuel Todd
Todd is a French historian, sociologist and anthropologist. The central themes of his work are the latest problems of demography, the economic stagnation of developed societies, and the collapse of postmodern political systems. One of the historian's most famous works was his first book, published in 1976, entitled "The Final Collapse", in which he predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union.
By now, 72-year-old Todd has published several dozen books, many of which have been translated into Russian. One of them is the book "After the Empire", published in 2002. In it, he predicted the inability of the United States to establish itself as the only world power and predicted their financial collapse, which should lead to their loss of economic and political leadership.
