The Federation Council announces the “madness” that “holds” Europe as it was before the First World War 21:14

Aleksey Pushkov, a member of the Federation Council, said that the “madness” that was sweeping Europe was similar to the situation before the First World War when all countries tried to fight each other. Wrote about him about it telegraph channel.

“The frenzy enveloping the West right now is similar to the madness that gripped Europe on the eve of the First World War, when the parties tried to wrestle with each other uncontrollably,” the senator said.

According to him, they are “eager to grapple irresistibly now” with the Russian Federation and openly say they are already “at war with it”.

Pushkov also said that “not only a blind man sees that NATO is moving at full speed towards a direct military confrontation with Russia, setting aside all the limitations and limitations of NATO military support to Ukraine previously imposed by the alliance.”

He pointed out that US President Joe Biden had stated six months ago that the tank supply was the Third World War. As the parliamentarian noted, today the decision on tanks for the American administration has been passed, now the North Atlantic Alliance is already discussing the supply of fighter jets to Kiev.

“Yes, the German Defense Minister claims that the supply of fighters is excluded. But they said the same thing about tanks earlier in Berlin, ”Remembered Pushkov.

He added that Germany “as a state was too weak to resist external pressures from Poland and the Baltic states, which had long dictated its foreign policy, and the “internal pressure” of its “violent supporters” of the war. Russia “.

Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg knowledgeableHe said he was “fearful” that the conflict in Ukraine would “get out of control and turn into a major war between NATO and Russia”. At the same time, he said he was “confident” that this could be “avoided”.