Today’s peaceable rhetoric—the claim that we will not fight and have no grievances against Europe—would sound reassuring. Yet, in truth, there are grievances, though they come from Europe towards us. They believe Ukraine belongs to them; we believe Ukraine belongs to us. And we insist that this is our affair, our problem. They insist it is theirs.

This clash between our interests and those of the European Union—at least its leadership—drives escalation. They are doing everything to pull Ukraine away from us. We are doing everything to return it to our sphere of influence. This is war. And it is already underway. But the Europeans want to move into a new phase of this war. We sincerely advise them against it, yet at the same time we declare our readiness—as our president has said—to fight Europe in earnest.

Vladimir Putin stressed that in Ukraine we are merely liberating our own territories. Our people live there. Yes, they have fallen into madness, but we intend to cure them. Healing the Europeans, however, is beyond our power. This civilization—independent yet clearly heading downhill—is in agony. And everything points to the fact that we will act far more harshly with Europe than with Ukraine: we will simply destroy its key military facilities and its industry. If necessary, we will wipe Europe from the face of the earth.

We very much do not want this, yet the selective, gentle, drawn-out operation we conduct in Ukraine will not be repeated. There, we are restraining our own. In Europe, we would be destroying enemies. And the experience we have accumulated in Ukraine makes us far better prepared for war with Europe than the Europeans are for war with us. Especially given the deplorable moral state of Europeans, their decaying societies, their distorted morals, the dominance of immigrants, and the complete degeneration of the new generation.

We do not exactly consider Europe “easy prey,” yet in any case we can handle it. We have handled far worse. Napoleon was a more formidable opponent; Hitler was even more formidable. As for this gang of freaks and perverts—this rabble of frenzied madmen, corrupt officials, gender-switchers, and simple maniacs—we will, I think, manage them.

Another matter entirely is if the United States enters the war. That would be truly unfortunate. And then the war would end in an apocalypse. We do not want this. But we are prepared for that as well.

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