18:03 15-12-2025

Europe's War Hysteria over Russia Called 'Suicide'

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Evgeny Buzhinsky says Europe is stoking war hysteria over an alleged Russian attack, warns of nuclear imbalance and calls current rhetoric a ‘suicide club’.

Evgeny Buzhinsky, retired lieutenant general and head of the Center for Political and Military Studies at the Faculty of World Politics of Moscow State University, believes that European countries are deliberately stoking fears of an allegedly inevitable Russian attack.

He says Europe is gripped by what he describes as mounting «military hysteria» which, in his view, intensifies with each passing month. According to Buzhinsky, the European Union is persistently promoting the idea that once the conflict in Ukraine is over, Moscow will supposedly move straight against the Baltic states. At the same time, he acknowledges that Russia does have interests in the region, first and foremost linked to Kaliningrad.

Buzhinsky argues that any attempt by European countries to block Kaliningrad, which he calls Russia’s only real vulnerability there, would trigger what he describes as an adequate and force-based response from Moscow. He also recalls the confiscation of Russian assets in Europe, noting that many experts and politicians now regard such actions as a potential casus belli — a formal pretext for war. Russia, he insists, will not be the first to launch an attack, but in the event of provocations near its borders, he says it will be forced to respond.

Commenting on statements by European politicians about preparing for war with Russia, Buzhinsky claims that the West is gradually turning into a «suicide club» ready to sacrifice European civilization. He allows for the possibility that the current rhetoric could also be a large-scale bluff aimed at boosting the military-industrial complex, which, he notes, has noticeably weakened in Europe since the end of the Cold War.

At the same time, he stresses that Europe must not be underestimated in terms of manpower, capabilities and the size of its GDP. However, when speaking about a potential Russian response, Buzhinsky refers to recent remarks by President Vladimir Putin, saying that the head of state deliberately avoids using the phrase «nuclear response», but has made it clear that in the event of a full-scale confrontation, there would «be no one left to talk to».

Buzhinsky points out that France and the United Kingdom together possess several hundred nuclear warheads — roughly between 200 and 600 — whereas Russia’s arsenal, he says, is an order of magnitude larger. Because of this imbalance, he argues that in a direct military clash such an adversary would be physically destroyed. In his assessment, current discussions in Europe about a possible war with Russia look either like a loss of common sense or an attempt at collective suicide.