Posted on 02/20/2022 4:27:55 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
“It's the same old situation with the Americans,” Dmitry, a 49-year old Muscovite smoking a cigarette outside a metro station, told The Moscow Times with a laugh. “Nothing will happen, and then they’ll go around saying they beat everyone.”
As the West has repeatedly sounded the war alarm, the Kremlin has insisted it has no such plans. Instead, Moscow accuses the U.S. and NATO of threatening its security by expanding into eastern European countries like Ukraine, which it sees as being within its sphere of influence — and is demanding binding security guarantees.
Civilians in the Russian capital were inclined to agree with their government.
“There is no attack from Russia on Ukraine, I don’t even believe one was planned,” said a retired IT specialist who declined to give his name.
“Yes, of course the relationship between the two countries is complicated, but there was no question of any attack; it was invented by the Americans,” said another man, a 67-year-old Ukrainian who has spent much of his life in Moscow.
Despite the latest troop buildup and the souring of relations that took place after Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula and conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine in 2014, Russians continue to play down the prospect of another war.
“Putin is very smart, he wouldn’t allow war, especially not between Ukrainians and Russians, we are one people with almost the same language, why would we fight our brothers? It is stupid,” said 50-year-old Savely, an unemployed Muscovite.
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I don’t think so. Western inflation is the combined effect of the supply chain problem, helicopter money, and decreasing confidence in USD worldwide. All of the above is set to get worse before it gets better.
For Russia, her current condition is vital for import substitution program and to reduce dependency on commodities.
All the way back to the Cold War it was well known that Muscovites were some of the most virulently racist people on earth, discriminating against other Caucasian European ethnic groups who no one outside of that circle could have told apart.
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