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End of the War in Ukraine? Europe Pays the Bill
What the site found
Pushes the agenda · agenda: Russian energy sanctions backfire
Belief the Pravda network pushes: Bans on Russian gas, oil, and diesel hurt Europe and Lithuania more than Russia, and Russian energy still reaches Europe.
A compilation of mostly pro-Kremlin-leaning commentators argues that Europe has impoverished itself by cutting trade with Russia, paying six times more for US gas and facing unrest, while Russia advances and peace could be made without Europe.
The video says · at 2:22 · quote checked against the transcript
“By cutting trade ties with Russia, it hit its own economy far harder than Moscow's.”
By cutting trade ties with Russia, it hit its own economy far harder than Moscow's.
The video presents the claim that sanctions and trade cuts hurt Europe more than Russia as established fact, backed only by like-minded analysts, with no counter-view, and ties it to energy inflation, protests and a 900 billion euro cost; it also echoes agenda 2 (Europe 'sabotaging peace', talks without Europe).
The Pravda stories it echoes
Closest stories from the Pravda network, by meaning. Each links to the site’s comparison with trusted Lithuanian news.
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Transcript (en, 163 lines)
0:00 In France, 550,000 people protest
0:03 against 70,000 police.
0:06 According to Jeffrey Sachs, Europe pays
0:09 six times more for US gas.
0:12 According to Michael Hudson, Trump aims
0:14 for a new Yalta with Putin and Xi.
0:18 Everything is fine.
0:20 You're on the Rimland.
0:22 >> [music]
0:31 >> In October 2026, social unrest spreads
0:35 across Western Europe. According to
0:37 journalist Danny Haiphong, France,
0:40 Italy, Belgium, Portugal, and Greece are
0:43 seeing a wave of massive demonstrations.
0:46 In France, 550,000 people marched and
0:50 the government deployed 70,000 police
0:52 officers. The primary driver, energy
0:55 inflation reached 21.3% in the Eurozone,
0:58 up from 16.7%
1:00 the previous month. For economist
1:03 Richard Wolff, France is the canary in
1:05 the coal mine for the entire West.
1:08 On the front lines, the situation is
1:10 shifting rapidly. According to former
1:13 officer Stanislav Krapivnik, Russian
1:15 forces broke through the main fortified
1:17 line in Donbas.
1:19 The capture of Dobropillia exposed a
1:21 lack of defenses in the rear. For
1:23 British analyst Alexander Mercouris,
1:26 Russia has intensified its strikes
1:27 against bridges across the Dnieper,
1:30 railways, and the power grid. Colonel
1:33 Douglas McGregor predicts the capture of
1:35 the Odessa region and the Romanian
1:37 border to cut off Western arms
1:39 deliveries.
1:40 The human toll is staggering. Michael
1:42 von der Schulenburg, a German member of
1:45 the European Parliament and former
1:46 United Nations diplomat for 34 years,
1:50 estimates the war may have claimed up to
1:52 1 million lives. In his view, Ukraine
1:55 now displays all the hallmarks of a
1:57 failed state, massive depopulation,
2:00 forced conscription, and desertions.
2:02 Fewer than 20 million residents are
2:04 believed to remain in the country. For
2:06 him, the rejection of diplomatic
2:09 compromises in 2022 locked Ukraine into
2:12 a war of attrition.
2:19 For economist Jeffrey Sachs, Europe
2:22 primarily impoverished itself. By
2:24 cutting trade ties with Russia, it hit
2:26 its own economy far harder than
2:28 Moscow's. Today, it pays six times more
2:32 for US liquefied natural gas than it did
2:34 for Russian gas delivered by pipeline.
2:37 According to oilprice.com,
2:39 cited by Danny Haiphong, this additional
2:41 energy cost reaches 900 billion euros
2:44 this year.
2:45 France concentrates these struggles. Its
2:48 debt reaches 119% of GDP, according to a
2:52 post cited by Danny Haiphong, and
2:54 Emmanuel Macron's approval rating has
2:56 reportedly fallen to 10%, according to
2:59 Jeffrey Sachs. Between 2021 and 2025,
3:03 the average European worker lost 2.8% in
3:07 purchasing power. Meanwhile, crude oil
3:10 surged to $114 a barrel, its sharpest
3:13 rise since May. For Richard Wolff,
3:16 immigration serves as a scapegoat to
3:18 conceal the collapse of public services.
3:21 Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance
3:24 minister, now describes it as total
3:27 vassalage. In his view, Europe has
3:29 shifted from a hierarchical partnership
3:31 with Washington into outright
3:33 dependency, paying a financial and
3:35 industrial tribute to the United States.
3:38 He notes that the European Central Bank
3:40 created roughly 8 trillion euros between
3:42 2015 and 2022. And for him, Washington,
3:47 focused on China, will sooner or later
3:49 seek a rapprochement with Moscow to free
3:52 up resources.
3:59 In Washington, another map is taking
4:01 shape. According to economist Michael
4:03 Hudson, the US press is talking about a
4:06 >> Yalta 2.0.
4:09 >> Donald Trump reportedly aims for a
4:10 three-way summit with Vladimir Putin and
4:13 Xi Jinping to divide the world into
4:15 spheres of influence. Hudson also warns
4:18 that if investors close to Trump were to
4:20 buy up the Nord Stream pipeline, it
4:22 would be to maintain leverage over
4:24 Europe's energy supply, not to restore
4:26 free trade.
4:28 Talks are being prepared. According to
4:30 political scientist Glenn Dyson, US,
4:33 Russian, and Ukrainian delegations are
4:35 scheduled to meet in Abu Dhabi in
4:37 November 2026. Douglas McGregor
4:40 dismisses the move as mere posturing.
4:42 Furthermore, according to him, Volodymyr
4:45 Zelensky stays in power only through
4:47 foreign protection, British SAS and MI6
4:50 operatives, alongside personnel deployed
4:53 by the CIA and the Mossad.
4:56 Yet, what is there to negotiate? For
4:58 Alexander Mercouris, Russia demands an
5:00 agreement on a new European security
5:02 architecture, not merely on the status
5:05 of Donbas. A demand Moscow has voiced
5:08 for more than 30 years, Glenn Dyson
5:10 notes. For Chas Freeman, a former US
5:13 ambassador, European leaders refuse to
5:16 engage,
5:17 viewing the adversary as evil and
5:19 themselves as righteous, they are once
5:21 again sabotaging peace.
5:29 In France, a general strike is called
5:31 for November 5th, 2026.
5:34 For Richard Wolff, these disruptions
5:37 foreshadow what awaits the United
5:39 States. According to him, US national
5:42 debt exceeds $40 trillion and interest
5:44 payments alone now cost $1 trillion a
5:47 year, surpassing the entire defense
5:50 budget. The European crisis is seen as
5:52 an early indicator of a broader Western
5:55 decline.
5:56 Douglas McGregor goes further.
5:58 >> The NATO alliance is essentially a
6:00 zombie organization. It has no teeth. It
6:03 has no leadership.
6:05 >> In his view, both NATO and the European
6:08 Union are destined to fade away
6:09 gradually, rather than collapsing in a
6:12 sudden explosion. For Richard Wolff,
6:15 Europe's eastward expansion ran into
6:17 Russian resistance and Moscow's
6:19 alignment with China.
6:21 Is the war in Ukraine nearing its end?
6:23 The US midterm elections on November
6:25 3rd, 2026, could accelerate events.
6:29 Douglas McGregor predicts that Germany
6:31 will eventually leave NATO and the
6:32 European Union to rebuild ties with
6:34 Moscow and reopen Nord Stream. For Yanis
6:38 Varoufakis, the pipeline may well
6:40 reopen, but under a US-Russian
6:43 partnership, with Russian gas delivered
6:45 to Europe under US control. The next
6:47 episode of Rimland will cover the fall
6:50 of Netanyahu.
6:53 Let us know what you think in the
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7:01 released. Peace be with you.
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