Former Italian PM , AC milan owner, and geopolitical realist Silvio Berlusconi summed it up best :
"The west wanted to isolate Russia from the world, but ended up Isolating itself from the world instead."
Berlusconi is a criminal!
He was convicted of false accounting, embezzlement, masking payments of substantial "black funds", tax fraud, tax evasion.
On 8 May 2013, the Court of Appeals in Milan confirmed the four-year prison sentence, and extended the public office ban to five years. He has many other ongoing court cases.
Berlusconi is well known for his frieendship with people of the likes of Gaddafi, Medvedev, Lukashenko, Putin.
He's well known for his anti-EU posture while having been the greatest promoter of Turkey's EU membeship, as well as for links with Cosa Nostra (Italian mafia), paid "services" to underage Moroccan prostitute, etc etc
This quote perfectly exemplifies western hypocracy, racism and exceptionalism. A conflict in ukraine is something the entire world should be sacrificing themselves for to save "euroz democrazy" But the euroes could care less about starving 3rd world people with their ridiculous sanctions and economic warfare.
What a bunch of BS !!! Many EU countries have a bigger humanitarian package than their military budget and maybe should you pay a visit rather than wanking on Sputnik lies, we're definitively multiethnic... Tell us about the % of white people or even Jews in your country, then let's compare with ethnic statistics e.g. in France or Germany for fun... EU has anti-racism laws, tell us about the open anti-semitism of your government!!!
BTW, IT'S PUTIN BLOCKADING ODESA PORT WHERE 6.5% OF WORLD'S WHEAT EXPORTS ARE WAITING TO FEED THE 3rd WORLD FOR CHEAPER THAN RUSSIAN WHEAT... IF YOU WANT TO COMPLAINT ABOUT A FAMINE START, CALL THE KREMLIN... OR GIVE LONG RANGE ANTI SHIP AND ANTI SUBMARINE MISSILES TO UKRAINE, e.g. India's BrahMos (800m range, Mach3 anti-ship) and DRDO SMART (600km range missile carrying a torped) ! IT WILL BE MORE EFFICIENT THAN LETTING PUTIN WEAPONIZE THE FAMINE HE IS ENGINEERING !!!
But the euroes could care less about starving 3rd world people with their ridiculous sanctions and economic warfare. They could care less about non "blue eyed blondes" dying in other countries.... they literally said 500k iraqi kids starving was "worth it" ......
NO EU LEADER EVER SAID THIS !!!
It was late US secretary of state Madeleine Albright
en.wikipedia.org
Moreover, it wasn't about starving, but a propaganda stunt by Iraqi government saying that half a million children died due to alleged sanctions on medical drugs and gear that in fact, weren't sanctionned AT ALL :
Whereas it was widely believed that the sanctions more than doubled Iraq's child mortality rate, research following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq has shown that commonly cited data were fabricated by the Iraqi government and that "there was no major rise in child mortality in Iraq after 1990 and during the period of the sanctions".[129][130] Albright addressed the controversy at length in a 2020 memoir: "In fact, the producers of 60 Minutes were duped. Subsequent research has shown that Iraqi propagandists deceived international observers ... Per a 2017 article in the British Medical Journal of Global Health, the data 'were rigged to show a huge and sustained—and largely non-existent—rise in child mortality ... to heighten international concern and so get the international sanctions ended.' ... This is not to deny that UN sanctions contributed to hardships in Iraq or to say that my answer to Stahl's question wasn't a mistake. They did, and it was. ... U.S. policy throughout the 1990s was to prevent Iraq from reconstituting its most dangerous weapons programs. Short of another war, UN sanctions were the best means for doing so."[131]