Explaining Russophobia – Anxiety disorder or propaganda for war?

I have recently responded to an interview conducted by the independent media RRN. We touched upon different geopolitical issues. This is the segment about the meaning of Russophobia among European leaders, and its possible causes.

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by Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli

NOTA BENE, on Freedom of Speech in the European Union: a transcript of this interview was published in the German site Tageswirtschaft, however, it was then shadowbanned at search engines, or suppressed, due to the DSA-censorship.

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RNN question:

“What do you think. Why they have such a hatred to Russia? Von der Leyen, Merz, Macron…Why? Why do they want to cause harm Russia?

 

My reply (transcript from the video shown below this text):

 

“…Von del Leyen, Merz, you can add Macron from France, you can add the governments of other countries too.

You can add Britain, you can add the leaders of the government of Sweden, even.

 

What have all these countries in common? They all have lost wars against Russia. Right?

 

Sweden: they were defeated by the Russians in Poltava:

 

 

France has invaded Russia. Napoleon invaded:

 

 

The Germans have invaded Russia. And they lost the war. They had to capitulate in Berlin.

It was the Soviet Army that made the Nazis in Germany to capitulate:

 

 

 

Britain has lost a war in Russia:

 

 

Etc.

 

So, you have a main reason there:

It’s revanchism.

 

Secondly, you have a profound Russophobia (among European leaders)

 

Just the name “phobia” calls for something clinical.

 

Russophobia is irrational, because it is self-destructive.

 

Effects of that Russophobia in these leaders made so that they produce negative impact in their own populations.

 

I said to you before the case of the sanctions against Russia in terms of the oil and the gas that

has impoverished not only the households in Europe.

But, productivity, industrial productivity in these countries has declined notably.

 

Particularly in Germany.

So, when a political leader indulges himself or herself in such Russophobia, he/she is making a statement

on his or her own ineptitude, and on his/her mental status:

 

Not to understand that what you are doing is detrimental to yourself and to

the people you say you love and protect.

 

So, something is wrong here… Something is wrong here.

Which it cannot be explained only in geopolitical terms.

 

It cannot be explained just by saying:

“Oh no, but these politicians are just obeying NATO and the military

industrial complex or the arms producers, etc.”

 

No. It is something more.

 

So, Russophobia is not only a nasty thing.

 

It is on the verge to be declared a mental illness. That’s it.

 

At least, not a mental illness. That it is saying too much. But an impairment in the understanding of reality.

 

That I would say.

 

So, I am not joking when I say, these people practicing Russophobia,

I regard them mostly as people suffering of Russophobia. Do you understand? The difference?

[RRN: “it’ sound terrible”].

 

Suffering! I mean, if you have a phobia; for instance, if you have a phobia to the heights;

or agoraphobia. Or if you have hydrophobia. You know, you suffer that phobia.

You are victim of that phobia.

 

You cannot consider yourself happy if you have such a phobia.

Do you understand what I mean? It is so unproductive.

It is so self-destructive.

 

And self-destruction, self-destruction, the tendency to self-destruction,

should be considered always a peril for your mental health.

 

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