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There won’t be a war, for starters the US is broke and printing dollars like there’s no tomorrow (40% more $US in circulation than 12 months ago)

Can you see Spanish, Portuguese, Danish troops (or any other NATO member) being sent to Ukraine to die? Of course not.

Russioeuropean alliance to kick out the US ,and who's going to stop Putin grabbing everything east of Berlin if the Americans would be kicked out .

Tell that to the several hundred russian troops who got a anilated in Syria after they decided to mount a full scale attack against an American and Kurdish held oil facility

West Germany annexed East Germany and EU/NATO repeatedly intervened militarily to support the carve-up of Yugoslavia. European states have used force in the same time period to suppress secessionist movements as in Northern Ireland and Catalonia, amongst others. European states happily use police and security forces to suppress internal dissent when expedient. EU/NATO has invaded and occupied Afghanistan for close to 20 years, Iraq for slightly shorter, as well as attacking Libya and Syria. They have also attempted to influence internal politics in other states, not least of which being Ukraine. As far back as the Peloponnesian War, the Athenians told the people of Melos that "you know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must." Rightly or wrongly, Putin and Russia are not content to accept that they must take the role of Melos.

EU/NATO is perfectly happy to use military force and economic threats/coercion when it suits its own purposes to redraw borders, suppress independence movements or force political/legal outcomes in their own sphere of influence. Putin's view of politics is clearly cynical but its not necessarily unique or unusual in that context. One of the primary complaints and causes of Russian resentment over the past 30 years has been that the US and EU/NATO talk a good game about high minded ideals whilst playing in the mud.

I dunno, is that how they frame those 2 events (German reunification & the Yugoslav wars) on RT, or in crib notes given to Russia's web brigades/influence operations? If it is, I suppose these talking points will just get repeated and reposted on madhouses like this forum seems to be becoming.

He also mentioned an "EU/NATO" invasion of Iraq which is another erm ..somewhat unique...way to look at the US (& UK) invasion of that country.

It's receding into past now so I suppose people can start to trial-balloon nonsense like that. Why were the prime movers, the US/UK, not mentioned?

In fact as regards the different Western military interventions (in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan) there's just one direct reference to the elephant in the room (US) hiding right at the end. This follows after multiple distorted statements of the "EU [!?]/NATO" leading all these military interventions around the globe! The EUs divisions sure have been busy.

How did western Europe manage to become dependent on gas from a rogue state which has continued to be at loggerheads with it for the last 100 years ?

No it's not in any way accurate unless your member of the russian communist party ,

Germany was one country until the red army arrived in 1945 and annexed everything east of Berlin .

The people of Germany took back this country when they the people brought down the Berlin wall .

Perception doesn't come into it

WW1 was more than 100 years ago smart lad , Russia/USSR interests briefly coincided in WW2 but George Patton was willing to keep driving east after Germany fell , the first decade after the fall of communism was an era of lawlessness and the rise of the Oligarchs when Russia was more of a danger to itself . To entrust our energy supply to such an entity was madness.