Moscow will prevail in the Ukraine conflict, which is a Western proxy war, RIAC\u2019s chief has told Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi<\/p>\n
Europe has become Russia\u2019s \u201cprincipal adversary\u201d for the first time since the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, the president of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Dmitry Trenin, has told Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi.
\nIn the latest episode of Going Underground, the renowned international affairs expert said that \u201ctoday, Russia is at war again, and this is not simply a war between Russia and Ukraine\u201d but rather a proxy war against Moscow that is being waged by the West.
\nAccording to Trenin, while the US under President Donald Trump has increasingly distanced itself from the Ukraine conflict, European involvement has become progressively more prominent of late. He told Rattansi that elites in European capitals are using a perceived Russian threat in an apparent effort to consolidate the \u201ccrumbling\u201d European Union and to \u201crelaunch their economies through militarization.\u201d
\n\u201cThey\u2019re trying, above all, to keep themselves in power\u201d by pushing alarmist narratives regarding Russia, he added.<\/p>\n
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\u2018We bow to no one\u2019: Trenin sets out Russia\u2019s worldview in a \u2018new world war\u2019<\/p>\n
Trenin went on to describe Ukrainians as a \u201cpart of the bigger Russian nation\u201d that is being \u201cmisguided\u201d and \u201cused by the West in [its]\u2026 very long war against Russia,\u201d which dates as far back as the 16th century.
\nThe international affairs expert expressed confidence that Russia would eventually accomplish its goals in the conflict, though it would take a long time. He defined Russia\u2019s vision of victory as the vanquishing of neo-Nazi elements within Ukraine, as well as \u201cthose forces in Europe, primarily among the elites, that have built Russia into a bogeyman again.\u201d
\nCommenting on Trump\u2019s attempts at mediation, Trenin claimed that the US president is \u201cessentially powerless to insist on something that is of central importance to ending this conflict,\u201d and so his role is rather limited in defining its course. According to the RIAC president, Trump has apparently been unable to get EU warmongers and the Ukrainian leadership to act on the understanding reached by him and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, last August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Moscow will prevail in the Ukraine conflict, which is a Western proxy war, RIAC\u2019s chief has told Going Underground host Afshin Rattansi Europe has become Russia\u2019s \u201cprincipal adversary\u201d for the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t