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, thank you very much for agreeing to the interview. uh, the presentation of your new book, which is called the confused continent, as i understand it , is taking place at the university of pedagogical st. petersburg the confused continent is europe or the european union. you absolutely yes indeed, but i do not see much difference between the european union and europe itself because i consider the continent as a whole, given that the eu occupies most of europe so why do i think that this continent is my our continent europe is confused and disoriented because i believe that it has lost its foothold, in theory, today the task of europe, with its history, with its culture and rich past, is to become one of the poles of the emerging multipolar world due to its geographical position, europe is called upon to play a role of balancing the forces between the two. with the superpowers the united states and china
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, the mission of europe is to be a third party in a third force that is trying to play the role of arbiter of the bridge between the united states and china but unfortunately i think we see that europe today is not capable. on this. she does not even want to play this role anymore, because she is excessively subject to american influence, which is especially noticeable today against the backdrop of the ukrainian events, where the eu, instead of acting guarantor, as it was in the minsk agreements. and let me remind you that germany and france were the guarantors of the minsk agreements, if germany and france were to fulfill their role of mediators, they would have to demand that the ukrainian side comply with the agreements, thereby fulfilling their role. instead, there is just echoing the americans, which is why i am rather pessimistic about the future of europe because i think that it has lost its independence. bring it back sometime in
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the 1990s you welcomed the formation of the european union but then they changed their mind. why really? i thought that the european union after the war that devastated the continent, that is, two world wars, which on a european scale can be called two great european civil wars, europe was destroyed, devastated, divided, so the eu was called upon to restore europe not only economically, but also politically. not only economic but also political integration. thanks to federalism, respect for the rights of minorities and the will to play the role of an intermediary in the international arena, but since the disappearance of the soviet union, we see that europe is far from the idea of ​​acting as an intermediary force. becoming a us vassal instead, the union did not live up
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to expectations, and although everything is fine on the economic side. there is nothing to say politically diplomatically in the international arena. the union, in my opinion, did not play the role that was predicted and expected, and the ukrainian crisis showed this with all obviousness, since it was in this situation. the eu was supposed to play the role of a containment center. and in particular on the ukrainian issue, i had to tell the ukrainian side. keep the agreements , better become a balancing neutral force in europe, they are transferred entirely into the hands of the united states. what ultimately led to what we see today, the american publisher for some reason changed the name of your book, for some reason the american publisher of the book. so i wanted to, because for americans europe is far away, although many represent it. what is russia but they don’t know where sweden is located, they confuse it. switzerland do not know exactly where they are other european countries ukraine and others,
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so it seemed more interesting for the publisher to focus on the choice that europe must make and in the usa the book is called the existential dilemma of europe under the title transferred to the question of whether or not to be a vassal of the united states. indeed, in this the central place is occupied by the question of european sovereignty, the independence of europe in his book. i am trying to analyze the situation and i am writing that europe has two paths, either to be a sovereign power or to become a vassal, and that, unfortunately, it makes a choice in favor of the second after the start of a special military operation. he wrote several articles on the subject. and what was the goal, what was the main idea, what did you try to explain and what was the reaction of the europeans, i will be in this article. for journalists, i'm on the board of a foundation called hybrid, the geneva
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international peace research institute. the challenge is that when an event like this occurs, and this is an extremely important event with victims of a serious important conflict. the first thing to do is to understand? why not blame do not look for someone to blame, do not try to oppose the good and the bad, no. in my opinion, the role of a journalist, and an intellectual in general , is to look for the underlying causes of such events, which i tried to do. i told myself that instead of saying, as the press does , that russia is to blame, that everything is because of mr. putin and so on, you need to understand why the reasons are always deeper than it seems at first glance. i tried to take a more general picture of the situation so that the whole picture was visible in the photo, and not just part of it. how often happens in the european and american press. even that was very difficult. this explain criticism has been many. i've been accused of being pro-russian and
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pro-putin in this and that. while i'm just trying to explain, i'm not trying to justify anyone. this is not my job. it is to explain, to enable people to understand what is happening, but even it is very difficult to make special words special means that have existed for decades and even centuries. but now, after the start of the special military operation. eh, don't you think that this language these means they have become more rigid more radical, even more terrible. yes, there has always been a lot of disinformation propaganda, information wars have been going on for 15 years and do not cease to intensify. really. all this was already after the fourteenth year after the maidan after the overthrow of the legitimate government. ukraine and we see that russophobia is only growing in any case, the
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official press for the most part. in my opinion , it has lost its role as a source of reliable information a critical observer in europe, the press is called the fourth power, that is, another separate power, which must ask questions of the other three. now i believe that the media has unfortunately left this role to the fourth power, and we are witnessing a renewed development of strengthening russophobic sentiments and propaganda. what do i regret? because it is impossible to restore or even build the world on false initial foundations, if we do not have completeness of information, if we do not understand , did not understand why this happens in the first place, one must try to understand, and only then, for example, the legitimate interests of russia in the field of security were never taken into account, since the western media never tried to explain russia's security concerns. the problems that the constant
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expansion of nato in europe can cause, no one explained this when the ukrainian events took place. people didn't understand, why was it never explained to them? i see it as my role to try and do it. i do not lose hope, i even begin to feel a certain optimism, because i see that now european society is looking for a real explanation, because it understands that those explanations that were given to it at the beginning of the conflict are not enough at the end of february and beginning of march. they simply do not give an understanding, because, distorted, i see that there is an interest in the european society to better understand the complexity of what is happening in ukraine and understand the reasons for the special military operation. there are few of them, but they exist, who are actively trying to explain first what is actually happening in ukraine what happened in mariupol what happened to the battalions, azov, which society did not know people did not know about their existence. the azov battalions also needed to be explained, and
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even though the supporters of this point of view are still in the minority, today this information is beginning to arouse interest, for example, now my articles are accepted better than 3 months ago. i was told that in italy, at the beginning of the military operation, almost 90% of italians were opposed to russia and supported the ukrainians, and today , according to polls, the ratio is already 50 to 50. then we see changes in public opinion, which gives some hope that we will return to better information and a more comprehensive understanding of the world order. taking into account, in particular, russia's fears, this does not mean to justify your view. what are the most russophobic countries and why is it a difficult question today, because all european countries are hard-lined against russia but we can say that traditionally russophobia is stronger in poland and the baltic
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there is not much of the former soviet union in romania although that's all in hungary, otherwise we see that hungary takes, let's say, a friendly position towards russia. although earlier it was also part of the zone of soviet influence. i would say that poland and the baltic countries take the most aggressive anti-russian positions. i was somewhat disappointed with germany's position while angela merkel was in charge. we are used to germany being cautious. tries to play the role of an intermediary looking for pragmatic solutions and so further, and under the new government of the scholtsy. in particular, under the influence of the greens, germany has completely become anti-russian french president emmanuel macron, while he maintains an open dialogue and conducts telephone conversations. i talked a lot with president putin, president zelensky, it is clear that he is trying to find room for maneuver, but, unfortunately, it is still not enough to counter the pressure of america on poland from the
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baltic countries, but there are signs of hope, obviously the uk has always played extremely negative role. it's still a european country even after leaving the eu and it's very, very anti -russian, i wonder what language it is. what exactly are the means to spread russophobia recently. i have finished work on a new book called the tyranny of good. it's kind of. glossary of terms that propaganda uses i call it the soft language of the equivalent language that george orans used in his 1984 novel . which are always used to refer to the bad guys, it is always about the opposite. i am not good, and evil is not so easy to explain in a nutshell. i
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chose 400 words, the use of which is encouraged and about 150 words that are not allowed, for example, the word putin, the word russia and others. they stand for evil bad guys. after all, everything is considered in the paradigm of good and evil, while pir is not such a completely different reality, but this new language uses the concept of good and evil to justify its existence to justify russophobia. it's not easy to explain, but briefly about this my last work. thank you very much for being with us and waiting for your book in bookstores in russia. and thank you.
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