Funny how Europe complains about Russia and over the centuries all they've ever done is invade them.
Why the heck would Russia ever trust Europe.
Throw in China as well.
Europe has used up ALL their trust and it's payback time.

The Europeans are blinded by their arrogance; knowing their history of colonialism, they are good at division!

The west has quite simply become very arrogantly stupid.

Die Warschauer Vertragsstaaten wollten auch keinen Krieg. Der Westen hat das immer wieder behauptet, deswegen das Wettrüsten im kalten Krieg. Das selbe Argument wird heute benutzt.

And remember: The Russian people support their government, the European people oppose their governments.

The Europeans will run out of money and self destruct first, without Russia needing to do very little.

The West started this. They should have left Ukraine alone.

Absolutely right speaking and Realisations.

Many European countries seem to think they can bully a next door superpower a recipe for disaster. Especially as the smaller and unimposing the country the bigger their mouth. Since roughly 1991 Russia has an European NATO problem and NATO and its members have proven themselves time and time again as totally unreliable. You can bet that Russia will do everything to split up NATO. To name a few: Offer parts of Ukraine after the war is ended in exchane for leaving NATO. Non-agression agreement if they leave NATO (and don't have to spend 5% of GDP). Cheap or better said affordable and reliable energy.

That's our view too

美国利用别国打戦美国自己国家也沒好到那里害人害己

Hahaha Finland Poland Britain etc want to fight Russia? The LEGO ARMY of EU would not survive 16:29 even 24 hours. Besides almost 80-90 pct of EU people are AGAINST any war

“I have been told that the Russians are not human beings at all; they are lower on the scale of nature than the orangutan.”
-  Sir Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; a remark made during a private dinner conversation aboard the Queen Mary during a transatlantic voyage on January 25, 1952.
This was documented by John Colville—Churchill’s private secretary—in his published diaries, *The Fringes of Power*.
Churchill was merely repeating the words of Lord Palmerston (Henry John Temple), the British Prime Minister during the mid-19th century, who is the original author of the quote.
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Western policy towards Russia:

Humiliation and  ridiculing (banning everything related to Russia - from sport to culture, Russians using semiconductors from washing machines, Russian soldiers fighting with shovels) > isolation, ostracism and sanctions > Intimidation and threats > stirring up opposition inside Russia (Navalny's movement, Prigozhin gamble) > colour revolutions at the peripheries of RF (Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia) > indirect aggression (proxy war) > NONE OF THE ABOVE WORKED.  French government authorised banks to deny an opening account or unilaterally close it if the customer had a Russian sounding name.
Completely powerless self-destructing collective West in its unbridled frustration recently resorted to the most primitive, vulgar insults:
"Putin  is a f@kcing idiot" - statement about Vladimir Putin by the graduate of the prestigious educational institutions like Eton College and Oxford University - British ex PM B.Johnson) and outright lies: Democrats' Russia Gate fabrication or Russia offering up to $100,000 for each American or coalition soldier killed if Afghanistan.
Russophobic in the "Blossoming Garden" hit the rock bottom. It became outright petty and infantile.
In 2022, the London National Gallery decided to change the title of Degas's painting "Russian Dancers" ("Danseuses Russes") to "Ukrainian Dancers".
But that wasn't the end of it.
Anna de Rus (Queen of France) all of the sudden became "Anna de Kiev".
I have just read in one of the Western newspapers that The Seekers' famous hit " The carnival is over" was based on... "an 1883  Ukrainian folk song" ("Stenka Razin").
In Czechia, they re-named one of the most popular ice-creams from "Premiere Russian ice-cream"  (Prima Ruská zmrzlina) to "Ice cream in wafer".*
In Poland very popular Russian dumplings ("pierogi ruskie") became "Ukrainian".
Russian Honey Cake too, is now claimed by Ukraine as "Ukrainian Honey Cake"...
Russian athletes banned from international competitions under national flag.
Even Russian dogs and cats are banned from international shows.
Recently hysterical Ukrainian authorities accused two ballet dancers from Kyiv of promoting Russian "propaganda"; both artists performed in United European Ballet production of "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky.
Letter "Z" was expunged from the public space in EU.
Zelenskyj's regime politicalized... grammar: "russia" is written with the lower case. Perhaps it will help UAF on the frontline.
Russophobia became rusophrenia.
Madness and stupidity!

* Dear Czech and Polish friends, for your information; a Ukrainian company "Rut'" in Zhitomir to this day exports "Ice-cream of Leningrad" to ... Israel.

Lately I have learned that expecting international politics to make sense is unrealistic.

Europa definitely has a Russia problem. Namely how big it is , how powerful it is, how rich it is in natural resources and under a control of one government.  European politicians, at least few of them openly talked about dissolving Russia into smaller regions (just like what happened to ZSRR), that Russia should not exist as it is, some even dared to say in their stupidity that Russia should not be where it is!!!!! I mean talk about insanity huh. So yes, Europe definitely has a Russia problem because Russia does not bend the knee to them or does not bend over backwards to the European rulling class or anyone else for that matter!!

Question that was not asked for a long time is: why Europeans refuse to reconsider improving relations with Russia ? Is not economic cooperation preferable to military engagement against Russia ?

Mearsheimer is WRONG. Russia will not allow an antagonistic NATO-alligned Ukraine. It will insist on a "neutral" (Russia sympathetic) regime like it had before the 2014 Maidam coup. And it will be working toward a neutral quasi-friendly Europe, the "new security architecture" to replace the antagonistic NATO. Mearsheimer doesn't understand what Russia is trying to achieve..

Russia was never the problem.
It was always ,-

Russia's Europe problem. Decades after "Not one inch east of Berlin..'  .. Russia had to act pre-emptively.

USA should ask its allies to help them.

Russia knows the facts , Europe still needs a gas station