L'Huffington Post - News, inchieste e approfondimenti HuffPost: Salvini: "Invio navi in Iran avvicinerebbe la terza guerra mondiale. Petrolio e Biennale, siamo alla russofobia"

Il vicepremier a Rtl 102.5 prende le distanze dall’azione di Trump, invoca prudenza per evitare l’escalation, invita a una riflessione sul ruolo dei soldati italiani in Medio Oriente. Poi sul fronte interno: "Non tollerabile la speculazione sui carburanti. Mercoledì incontro le compagnie petrolifere"

Salvini: "Sending ships to Iran would bring about World War III. Oil and the Biennale, we’re at the stage of Russophobia.”

The deputy prime minister on Rtl 102.5 distances himself from Trump’s actions, calls for caution to avoid escalation, and invites reflection on the role of Italian soldiers in the Middle East. Then, on the domestic front: “Speculation on fuel is intolerable. Wednesday I will meet with the oil companies.”

#Salvini #WorldWarIII #Russophobia #Rtl1025 #Trump #Italian #theMiddleEast

https://www.huffingtonpost.it/politica/2026/03/17/news/iran_salvini_non_e_la_nostra_guerra_bene_prudenza_governo-21434080/

The US Weaponized Russophobic Paranoia And Energy Geopolitics To Capture Control Of Europe

The US Weaponized Russophobic Paranoia And Energy Geopolitics To Capture Control Of Europe

By Andrew Korybko

It’s unimaginable that the US would allow any competitor to reduce its enormous new market share in the European energy industry, which it plans to further expand to make Europe even more dependent on it, and that the US wouldn’t weaponize this if Europe ever defies it on anything of significance.

The US’ dispute with Europe over Trump’s planned acquisition of Greenland, in pursuit of which he even threatened punitive tariffs against several NATO allies before relenting after they agreed to a framework deal, exposed the strict hierarchical vassal-client relationship between them. This was explicitly acknowledged by Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, who said that “Being a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave is something else” in response to Trump’s pressure upon Europe.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s speech at Davos complemented Wever’s worries when he accused the US of trying to “weaken and subordinate Europe”, in response to which he called for “clearly building more economic sovereignty and strategic autonomy”, though it’s arguably too late for that. Politico recently reported that “Fears grow over Europe’s soaring dependence on US gas imports”, which the US could weaponize amidst serious future disputes with the EU over whatever the issue might be.

Not only could it cut them off from its exports, but its blockade of Venezuela proves that it has the political will to seize energy tankers at sea, the policy of which could be employed in that scenario to ensure that other suppliers aren’t able to satisfy Europe’s needs. Likewise, the only realistic ones that could potentially do so are the Gulf Monarchies, which are all under US influence as it is. It’s therefore indeed possible that this dependence could be exploited to coerce concessions from a recalcitrant EU.

The question thus arises of how this dependence came to be, which is due to the US weaponizing Europe’s paranoia of Russia supposedly being the one to weaponize energy geopolitics as punishment for Europe’s military support of Ukraine, though nothing of the sort materialized. To the contrary, Russia remained committed to meeting its contractual obligations to Europe in spite of its energy exports literally fuelling European arms factories producing weapons that are given to Ukrainians kill Russians.

In its defence, Russia’s calculations appear to be retaining its reputation as a reliable supplier in order to not scare away other clients (both current and prospective) as well as secure additional budgetary revenue, some of which is then invested in producing the weapons used in the special operation. To this day, Russia still exports energy to Europe, albeit at a much smaller scale due to Europe’s anti-Russian sanctions and its pivot away from Russian supplies to American ones.

Scaling up Russian energy imports isn’t in the cards, however, since no major European economy dares to anger the US by importing less from it. They only still import much lower levels of Russian energy due to the market’s inability to replace its exports till next year. Any move to scale up imports from Russia, such as resuming imports via the one undamaged Nord Stream pipeline or the several overland ones, could lead to their destruction as proven by the Nord Stream precedent, which is a powerful deterrent.

In retrospect, Europe ceded its sovereignty to the US by sanctioning Russian energy, which it did after the US weaponized its Russophobic paranoia. The US then replaced Europe’s dependence on Russian energy and is willing to weaponize this if Europe ever defies it on anything of significance. Had Europe and Russia maintained at scale their “Faustian bargain” of fuelling each other’s arms industry, financially in Europe’s case and literally in Russia’s, then Europe would still have its “strategic autonomy”.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

Germany inches towards martial law through mandated Russophobia

To enforce its war policy, the EU and Germany rely on repression. Journalists, humanitarian workers, and cultural institutions are targeted – which means all of us.

by Alexander Kiknadze
peoples dispatch
January 13, 2026

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2026/01/13/germany-inches-towards-martial-law-through-mandated-russophobia/

"I hate Russia so much, I can't even read Dostoevsky

Guy Mettan: Russophobia Made War Inevitable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDavKFoGEXE
#russia #russophobia #guymettan #dostoevskij

Denmark Social Democrats’ Suffer Biggest Election Loss in a Century Due to Unhinged Russophobia

https://murica.website/2025/12/denmark-social-democrats-suffer-biggest-election-loss-in-a-century-due-to-unhinged-russophobia/

The Baltic Roots of Russophobia: Neoliberalism, Revisionism and U.S. Imperialism

https://murica.website/2025/12/the-baltic-roots-of-russophobia-neoliberalism-revisionism-and-u-s-imperialism/

Russia Is Fine-Tuning Its State Interethnic Policy

Russia Is Fine-Tuning Its State Interethnic Policy

By Andrew Korybko

This represents a model for managing multiculturalism in historically diverse countries.

Putin announced during a meeting of the Council on Interethnic Relations, which was held the day after National Unity Day in early November, that Russia must fine-tune its State Interethnic Policy. He warned that foreign spy agencies are actively working to exploit identity divisions, both ethnic and religious. “The migration factor”, as he phrased it, contributes to this. Although not mentioned in his remarks, it’s relevant to add that the FSB thwarted a plot last month to manipulate anti-Israeli sentiment to this end.

The other threat that Putin brought up was the rhetoric about “decolonizing” Russia, which the US Government’s “Helsinki Commission” began to actively push in summer 2022 and was later picked up by former Polish President Andrzej Duda two years later. Readers can learn more about that here and here. These forces’ end goal is a so-called “post-Russia”, which Putin described as “a territory stripped of its sovereignty and split into small fragments subordinate to the West.”

This political fantasy could only come about through the destruction of the Russian people. Accordingly, Putin warned that “the ideology of aggressive Russophobia is spearheaded against all peoples of our country, because there is no Russia without the Russian people, the Russian ethnos and the Russian factor.” In reverse order, the last threat is being thwarted by “nurturing and protecting” the “Russian identity, the traditions, culture and language of our state-forming people”, ethnic Russians.

As for counteracting plots to “decolonize” Russia, Putin called for more sociological research into interethnic and interreligious relations at the community, city, and regional levels along with the creation of “precision tools” for preemptively averting conflicts and promptly dealing with those that arise. He also suggested empowering regional leaders in this regard and fostering closer work between them and local officials. It’s assumed that social media and other forms of monitoring will likely be employed.

The last main threat to Russian unity, “the migration factor”, is already being dealt with through more stringent controls on foreign guest workers and better enforcement of existing laws. This dimension of Russia’s State Interethnic Policy has been prioritized since spring 2024’s Crocus terrorist attack. It’s important to note in connection with this that Putin and the Patriarch reminded Russians that ethno-religious hate speech is unacceptable. Article 282 of the Criminal Code is also directed against this.

Putin’s approach to fine-tuning Russia’s State Interethnic Policy will be bolstered by “do[ing] everything to strengthen our unity…our civil and national identity, which encompasses both state and Russian identity.” Moreover, he acknowledged that “Many conflicts are natural” and advised that “we have no right, especially today, to inflate any, even seemingly small, disagreements. We should do the opposite.” Calm and proportional responses to emerging and nascent identity conflicts will thus become the norm.

What Putin proposed is basically a model for managing multiculturalism in historically diverse countries. The primary threats to them are uncontrolled migration, Balkanization plots, and discrimination against their state-forming people, all of which are exacerbated by external forces that seek to exploit “natural” conflicts between identity groups as they arise together with provoking them. The response to each will vary in substance due to each country’s uniqueness but is expected to follow Russia’s lead as explained.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

#geopolitics #multiculturalism #poland #russia #russians #russophobia #usa

1999 AFP: "Concern over the fate of IMF funds going to Russia"

https://video.echelon.pl/w/um3HA17zoirbXXvHnm3HRq

Denmark/Scandinavia on Permanent War Footing: Russians on the Doorstep

https://murica.website/2025/10/denmark-scandinavia-on-permanent-war-footing-russians-on-the-doorstep/