Is Europe’s Division Helping Moscow in Negotiations?

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00:00How does it feel, Sergei, in Moscow, sitting back and watching two of the traditional allies,

00:07the US and the UK, maybe being at loggerheads with each other, seeing division in Europe,

00:12the Belgian prime minister not wanting to take the interest from the Russian frozen assets to

00:19use to fund Ukraine's war. Is Europe playing into your hands here?

00:24Europe, big coalition of almost, I think, 500 million people with big economy, with big engineering, technological schools.

00:40I'm sure that Europe, after some problems, will recover itself for sure.

00:47And, of course, when we see the split between European Union and Britain on one hand and United States on the other hand,

00:58we like it because if they united, they overthrown last democratic elected president of Ukraine,

01:06imposed neocolonial repressive regime to Ukrainian people, and prohibited Russian language,

01:12started political repression against people in Ukraine who believe that Russia and Ukraine should be pregnant.

01:19They started political repression.

01:21Okay, but if we go back onto the topic at hand, Sergei, rather than another history lesson,

01:27let's keep to the topic at hand.

01:29I want your comments on how you are seeing the European response to this.

01:35It's the main reason of the war.

01:37Okay, but that's not the question we're asking, because the main reason for the war has been argued ad infinitum.

01:45Now we need to look at what's happening now and what's happening with these discussions going forward.

01:51How does Moscow assess the situation within Europe?

01:55Is Moscow looking at the divisions within European countries and thinking,

02:00aha, we can exploit this and now we're going to push harder on the negotiations?

02:04Yeah, as we understand, now it's not just split between United States and Europe.

02:13It's also split between two big political forces.

02:19One of them is globalists, which is more reliant on the interests of the big global corporations,

02:26and so-called deep state or your bureaucracy in European case.

02:33It's on the one hand, they want to continue the war.

02:35And another thing is different populist, democratic forces,

02:39which come to power in United States and which can come to power in Britain and France and Germany.

02:48We want to have negotiations with those European politicians who want peace.

02:57This is Marine Le Pen, this is Alternative for Germany, this is Farage Nigel, this is Orban and so on.

03:04And these European politicians should take part in peace negotiations.

03:09But those who want to destroy the peace, as Boris Johnson destroyed the Istanbul peace deal,

03:17why they should take part in the peace negotiations?

03:20If they're enemies of peace, it's our approach.

03:25We want to have dialogue, concatenation with everybody who wants to have dialogue with us.

03:31But those who say that, oh, you are enemies of the world, you should be crushed.

03:39And those who tell us that Russian ladies should be prohibited, orthodox church should be prohibited.

03:45We're sorry, we don't want to talk with you.