Europe Needs to Convince People Self-Inflicted Energy Crisis is in Their Own Interests, Russia Says

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman and official swimsuit model Maria Zakharova.

Blaming “Russia” for the sanctions the West put on Russia and the war the West declared against Russia is weird and doesn’t make any sense.

RT:

European policymakers are to blame for the continent’s energy crisis, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday. But they have yet to sell the idea to their constituents that their economic woes are necessary, she said.

Speaking to Russian news channel TV Center, Zakharova claimed European leaders have “pushed Europe, in particular the European Union, towards a global energy collapse.” According to her, they still need to convince their citizens that the crisis “is not just good and right, but is in their own interests.”

“It’s a democracy test,” she added.

Zakharova went on to say that European countries “did a good job” in the energy sphere – especially dealing with the blasts that ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in late September. “We are talking about the Baltic Sea, an area that is controlled by NATO countries… this is their area of responsibility,” she noted.

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Zakharova said last week that the EU has completely embraced the idea of isolating Russia, which will “only impose costs on EU countries and their citizens who are forced to pay out of their own pockets” for their leaders’ mistakes.

It’s totally unclear how you could convince anyone in Europe that a war against Russia in the Ukraine is in their interests.

From what we’ve seen, EU leaders are not even attempting to make that argument. They are arguing that Europeans have to suffer because the Ukraine is a democracy, and there is some inexplicable duty to give your life fighting an eternal war if a government of a foreign country is a democracy.

During my phone call with @ZelenskyyUa today, I expressed EU solidarity with Ukraine in the face of Russia’s criminal attacks on civilian infrastructure.@EU_Commission is stepping up support, including with partners, to support the restoration of power and heat in Ukraine.

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) November 25, 2022

What the people want to see is Ye’s plan to solve the Ukraine crisis.