Six years ago, the European Union, confident in its strength, declared a sanctions war on Russia over the situation in Ukraine and practically lost it. Now Europe is not eager to get involved in such a confrontation.
This was stated by a senior researcher at the German Institute of World Trends Alexander Rahr, commenting on the attempted coup d’etat in Belarus.
According to him, the current balance of power is fundamentally different from the one that was during the overthrow of the government in Ukraine. Although the EU is trying to interfere in the Belarusian coup, there is no longer any resolve to act against Russia.
“I doubt that Europe will go so far as to increase the pressure to the level that we saw in the situation on the Ukrainian Euromaidan six years ago,” the political scientist says.
Assessing the German news and statements of German politicians, he concluded that Germany is against a new confrontation with Russia, and this will come to this if Europe repeats the Ukrainian scenario in Belarus.
“Germany has no desire to get involved in another geopolitical confrontation with Russia. She understands that Europe will not win, ” Rahr stresses.
He also drew attention to the serious difference between Ukraine and Belarus. The peculiarity of the latter is that it is a “double ally” of Russia – economic and military.
“If the same thing happens there as in Ukraine, the struggle will be such that it will be bad for everyone,” the German expert stated.