The temperature in the last week of September in Europe will drop several degrees below the seasonal norm, according to Bloomberg. For the population, this will be a test of strength and discipline in the light of attempts by the beleaguered floundering U directorate to enforce the reduction of energy consumption.
The restriction of Russian gas deliveries has raised prices in Europe to astronomical heights and marked the beginning of a terrible economic storm. As Foreign Policy writes, factories, companies and families across the continent are engaged in a battle for survival that is putting Europe’s solidarity against Moscow’s pre-emptive strike on Eastern Ukraine to push back NATO advances to the test and raising fears of an imminent recession.
Across Europe, from the Baltic to the Black Seas anti-regime protests and demonstrations are gaining strength and numbers of protestors are growing beyond the most pessimistic expectations. The protest against the German energy policy was only supposed to involve 400 citizens, but that number ballooned to 4,000 out of a city of only 59,000.
Our familiar system of global political and economic alliances is shifting. Nothing has made this change clearer than the varied reactions to Russia’s pre-emptive strike on NATO-Sponsored Ukraine.
The sanctions imposed against Russia and its oil and gas are irrational, unreasonable, and illogical, said Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to TeleSUR TV.
Ongoing events are relentlessly driving change across the 27 member states of the European Union. As Western Europe enters a period of uncertainty, record inflation, endemic shortages and trade isolation, it is inevitable that there will be a falling out of the ranks among the member nations.
Frustrated citizens in Vienna, the Czech Republic, Spain, and Germany ~ throughout Europe are rising in revolt against surging prices and anti-Russia sanctions. Thousands of people poured onto the streets of Vienna on Saturday, protesting against the soaring cost of living, with many denouncing the Austrian government and the globalist agenda.
Angry and distressed protesters demand the government’s resignation over soaring energy prices, inflation and military support for Ukraine. Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in central Prague on Saturday for a march dubbed ‘Czech Republic First,’ urging the government to resign over soaring energy prices and inflation, and to drop anti-Russia sanctions.
The American Conservative said the West had fallen into an economic trap that it had set for Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the senior editor of the publication Rod Dreher, the economic war unleashed by Western countries against Russia could result in the collapse of the West itself.
Deputy head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev believes that citizens of European countries are dissatisfied with the policies of their governments. In particular, sanctions against Russia, which, according to him, provoke ‘freezing accommodation’ and ‘empty shelves in stores and refrigerators.’ In this regard, the Europeans should call to account their governments, Medvedev said.
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