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by Dmitry Bavyrin
[RIA] "Economic dwarf" and "filling station with atomic weapons". EU diplomat Josep Borrell used such metaphors to describe Russia in an interview with El Pais, the most popular socio-political newspaper in his Spanish homeland.
Not just the most popular in Spain, but the one of the best written print publications in the world in any language.
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It's funny that the feeling when you feel uncomfortable for another is called Spanish shame. And for the European diplomacy now it is simply a shame. It would seem that Borrell offended us, Russia, here we should not feel inconvenience, but be indignant. But the situation is so egregious that a decent person is obliged to ask again: is everything okay with your diplomat? Is it really healthy? Did you get a sunstroke, as is often the case in Spain in the summer?
The problem is not only that Borrell contradicts well-known facts. It is also in the way he does it - in a boorish, but at the same time self-deprecating form.
According to the World Bank's August report, Russia is the fifth largest economy in the world (in GDP PPP terms). If she is a dwarf, then who are all the other states, including absolutely all EU countries? Amoeba? Is this the official position of the EU diplomacy, or is there something wrong with the chief of this diplomacy?
Rather the second. The words about the "gas station" are self-revealing: Borrell exposed the perception of Russia, because of which Europe embarked on the path of self-destruction.
When someone in the West (and Borrell is far from the first) called us a "gas station country", he meant the following: we need to stop buying Russian energy resources and put more pressure on Russia, then it will either ask for mercy, or fall apart as a quasi-state, united only by an oil pipe.
When Borrell and the EU as a whole declared economic war on us and took over the Armed Forces of Ukraine , they counted on just such a result - the financial collapse of Russia and a quick military defeat. Instead, Europe suffered hundreds of billions of euros in losses and lost its military arsenals, which the Russian army is now methodically grinding.
The reality is that being a "gas station" is an advantage. Russia has it.
The USA has it. Europe does not have it. Therefore, production from the EU countries is now moving to America in search of energy stability.
Also, Russia has not only nuclear, but also hypersonic, other missile and other weapons as a guarantee that "defeat" is impossible, but only a long, costly and potentially disastrous confrontation for Europe is possible. And it does, thanks to Borrell and others, into whose heads a deliberately distorted image of a "petrol station country" was driven into.
A sober analysis is hindered by strong feelings - for example, hatred. There is no doubt that Borrell hates us. But why he hates is an open question, the search for an answer to which is tantamount to investigating the root causes of the European catastrophe.
Six months before taking office, he unexpectedly called Russia "an old enemy that threatens again." This happened in the spring of a peaceful and prosperous (by today's standards) 2019, when it was no longer fashionable in Western Europe to "beat the pots" with Moscow , and the US president was Donald Trump , who did not demand Russophobia from the allies.
After Borrell was appointed, world politics was quarantined, so his visit to Russia was delayed until February 2021. The guest right from the doorstep began to teach the masters of life, but, of course, he was not understood, he was offended and threatened with "widespread consequences." As subsequent history showed, the European diplomat really thought broadly.
In April 2022, when there was still hope for peace talks, Borrell called for "defeating Russia on the battlefield." A month later, not just to freeze, but to confiscate Russia's assets in favor of Ukraine , which was contrary to EU law (and the European Union later recognized this). A month later, the European diplomat unsuccessfully lobbied for the imposition of sanctions against Patriarch Kirill. A little later, he called relocators from Russia "a threat to the security of the European Union."
If "Don Woof-Woof" were a Latvian, a Pole, a Czech, a Swede, British, there would be no questions for him: Russophobia among these peoples is a sought-after commodity. But Borrell is from Spain, where at one time he headed the Foreign Ministry, and Russia has not shared anything with Spain for a long time - we have nothing to share. Even the Spaniards were previously exposed to a minimum of anti-Russian indoctrination through NGOs and the media, since they did not depend economically on Moscow, therefore, Brussels and Washington did not require them to reduce this dependence, as they demanded from the Germans and Bulgarians.
There is a special category - the Spanish far right, who hold a grudge against Moscow for participating in the Spanish civil war. But Borrell is not an unfinished Francoist, quite the contrary: he has been a member of the anti-Francoist Socialist Party for half a century, many of whose members are grateful to the USSR for the help of the 1930s.
There is no American globalist school behind Borrell either: he is locally Spanish, then a purely Brussels politician, not burdened with the image of a "Washington little man." But then where did all his anti-Russian clichés and hawkish attacks come from? What kind of dog bit him, what is her name?
For example, Soros, George Soros.
Borrell worked for five years in the European Parliament , including as chairman in 2004-2007. Just at that time, Soros was interested in the EP, promoted his people to the deputies, fussed, lobbied, "resolved questions."
An experienced investor was cruelly mistaken: this structure has not yet become influential and has not acquired powers. But Borrell became an influential and authoritative figure. And he lives as if according to Soros manuals, where the opposition to Russia is indicated as a self-sufficient goal, and the political alliance with the United States is a shrine that must be preserved at any cost.
To explain the anti-Russian hesitation in Europe by the influence of, if not Washington, then Soros, is a vulgarity in the spirit of conspiracy theories about world government. But in the case of Borrell, the most conspiratorial explanation suddenly turns out to be the most logical one. In such a destructive, costly, essentially sectarian diplomacy, Soros' participation would explain everything.
And if Soros has nothing to do with it, our main suspect is the hot Spanish sun.
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