Dmitry Medvedev suggests the struggle will persist even after the US leader asserts dominance over the EU and UK.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has asserted that Western European leaders are engaged in a “quiet war” against US President Donald Trump.
Medvedev, currently the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, stated on Tuesday that the current tariff disputes and disagreements over NATO spending between Washington, the EU, and the UK represent not only an economic but also an ideological clash.
“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 said.
According to the former president, the tensions between Washington and the EU and UK stem from 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,” Medvedev stated at the ‘Knowledge. First’ educational event in Moscow.
“One does not need to be a prophet” to predict that the US will likely triumph over Western Europe, he emphasized.
“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 elaborated.
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