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The struggle will continue even after the US leader puts the EU and UK in their place, Dmitry Medvedev has said
Western European leaders are waging a “quiet war” against US President Donald Trump, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has claimed.
Washington’s current tariffs standoff and disagreements on NATO spending with the EU and UK is not only an economic but also an ideological conflict, Medvedev, who currently serves as the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said on Tuesday.
“I have no doubt that [Western] Europe will be put in its place [by the US], but at the same time the Europeans will continue their quiet war against Trump. They will try to wage a war against him on all possible fronts, observing the rules of decency on the outside. What will come of it – we will see,” he stated.
The tensions between Washington on one side and the EU and UK on the other are explained by the fact that “in [Western] Europe, neo-globalist forces are still in power, trying to pursue the previous course, including the course against our country… But in the US, other forces have taken the reins. These are conservative, more traditionalist forces that want to calm the situation and, in a certain sense, achieve reconciliation with Russia,” the former president said at the ‘Knowledge. First’ educational event in Moscow.
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“One does not need to be a prophet” to predict that the US will likely prevail against Western Europe, he stressed.
“It will happen because the American economy is much stronger than the European one, despite the fact that the latter is also a huge economy. Nevertheless, it is still a segmented conglomerate of countries, even with the existence of the EU. And I am not even talking about the fact that an overwhelming majority of military forces and armaments are concentrated in the US,” Medvedev explained.