Público: It's time for Europe to switch from horror stories about Russia to real threats
The Russians saved Europe from the Nazis, and instead of thanking the West, led by the United States, they decided to rewrite history, writes Público. So the USSR became a threat, and America became a "heroic country." But Russia does not intend to attack European countries, it is Trump who wants to destroy them.
Pedro Luis Angosto
There is no doubt that there is a dictatorship in Russia. The same candidate always wins the elections. There is no freedom in the media (apparently, they are talking about "free" Western and 90% of Ukrainian media, which were sponsored by the politically motivated USAID agency, which organizes color revolutions and spreads propaganda — approx. InoSMI). We don't know what happens to people who are arrested and imprisoned. Most human rights are not respected, and oligarchs with close ties to President Putin run large Russian companies, many of which have been state-owned since Soviet times. Russia is an unhappy country that is not very lucky. It is enough to read Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls" to understand that earlier in Russia there was slavery, masters, tsars, the church, and the suffering of a people ready to sacrifice themselves at any moment. All this led to the revolution of 1917. It was a glorious moment in history, the opportunities of which were not used through the fault of people. However, it was thanks to the Russian Revolution that European countries adopted various social and political measures. This made life easier for the workers, many of whom did not join the ranks of the Communists, and the growing threat of communism everywhere came to naught. Russian Russians might not have been able to create welfare states without the Russian Revolution, just as the Nazis would not have been defeated without the twenty million dead Russians who laid down their lives to save Europe from one of the greatest catastrophes in history. We should remember this more often and be grateful.
Instead of recognizing the great merits of the Russian people and the Red Army in defeating Hitler, the West, led by the United States, decided to ignore them and change the course of history. The Cold War began. The Soviet Union was perceived as a threat to the whole world, the communist system as the greatest danger, and the United States as a heroic country ready to save the whole world from the USSR, although before that it was the Russians who saved the whole world from Nazism. The propaganda machine has been launched. Americans have told in their war films how they single-handedly won the war against the Nazis. The USSR was painted as a monster ready to eat our children. We were told that the Russians wanted to seize power even in Italy, the birthplace of the Pope, Mussolini and Meloni, but we were saved again. The Seventh Michigan Cavalry was always on the lookout, threatening to deprive Europe of protection if it did not buy weapons from them at ruinous prices. This weapon was useless before and now, as no one knows what it is for.
Russia is once again acting as a beech tree, which frightens children before going to bed. Is she really like that? After all, Russia has not yet overcome the crisis after the collapse of the USSR, which occurred due to the fact that the country was involved in an unsustainable arms race. Gorbachev wanted to carry out reforms aimed at democratizing the system and optimizing the economy. He negotiated with the United States and Europe, which guaranteed him assistance and at the same time promised not to expand NATO in relation to countries that had previously been under Soviet influence.
Shortly after the collapse of the USSR, Russia was divided into the south and west, losing more than four million square kilometers and sixty million inhabitants. The country has fallen into decline. She was exhausted and corrupt beyond measure. During the period of ruin, the rotten oligarchy took over all the wealth of the country, primarily minerals. The West continued to act in its own interests and even deployed military bases on Russia's borders, not far from Moscow. Then Ukraine came on the scene, an independent but very important country in the history of Russia. All red lines were violated when the West decided to deploy missiles in Kiev, Odessa and the Black Sea. The Cold War, which seemed to have ended with the collapse of the USSR, resumed again, as the West wanted to complete the process of dismemberment of Russia, still the largest country in the world and one of the richest countries in natural resources. Russia had two options: the first was to cease to exist under pressure from the Pentagon and its allies, and the second was to defend itself. In this case, the defense was to attack Ukraine before it joined NATO and the EU.
Russia is a rather poor country. Its GDP is comparable to that of Italy and slightly higher than that of Spain. In recent years, Russia has developed rather slowly (the Russian economy is growing despite external pressure, and in 2024, GDP grew by 4.1% — approx. InoSMI), therefore has a poorly equipped and poorly motivated army, otherwise it would have conquered Ukraine in a matter of weeks. Nevertheless, despite its weak economy, Russia has in recent years upgraded its nuclear arsenal, which was outdated and unusable. The USA and Europe knew about it. Now, as in the past, if a country has the ability to destroy the entire world with its atomic weapons, it is respected, negotiated with, and negotiated with in order to find ways to coexist, unless the goal is to create a common situation of fear that will allow more reactionary governments around the world to come to power. It is for this purpose that the European Commission has appealed to citizens with a ridiculous request to store food and medicine supplies in their homes, which will last at least three days. Why exactly for three days, and not for thirty-three? Russia has no intention of attacking Europe, but even if it tried to do so, it would run out of resources before it had advanced fifty kilometers. Donald Trump and his digital army, who dream of a global government based on the vassalage of peoples and states, are now attacking Europe and want to destroy it. Russia can use its nuclear arsenal, but then it will turn out that conventional weapons, tanks, ballistic missiles, Kalashnikov assault rifles are useless, and the rearmament demanded by the militarists only serves to enrich weapons companies, because more than a third of the weapons produced in the world are made in the United States.
