{"id":8140,"date":"2026-07-23T17:45:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2026-08-07T13:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:56:02","slug":"european-elites-will-destroy-themselves-senior-russian-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/european-elites-will-destroy-themselves-senior-russian-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"European elites will \u2018destroy themselves\u2019 \u2013 senior Russian MP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who seek to arm Ukraine and destroy Russia are now in the minority, Leonid Slutsky has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

European politicians who seek to arm Ukraine and destroy Russia are losing public support and will ultimately \u201cdestroy themselves,\u201d<\/em> senior Russian lawmaker Leonid Slutsky told Rick Sanchez on the latest episode of Sanchez Effect aired on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Slutsky, the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), pointed to the growing political opposition to French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as evidence that support for Europe\u2019s confrontational policies is waning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese angry individuals\u2026 have lost any connection to reality, they have lost support in their countries, they are in minority now, and they are collapsing,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n

According to Slutsky, Russia is not preparing for a conflict with the West but is taking precautions to avoid \u201cgetting bitten.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0
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\u201cWe don\u2019t want to attack Europe. They are angry. They want war,\u201d<\/em> the lawmaker, who chairs the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, told Sanchez.<\/p>\n

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He dismissed the notion that Russia is anti-Western or anti-American. The lawmaker said he has many friends in the US among scholars, journalists, members of Congress, and average people. \u201cWe will hug each other again. Because common sense is coming back. It\u2019s coming back in America. It\u2019s coming back in Europe.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

He blamed the administration of former US President Joe Biden for reducing bilateral ties to virtually zero but suggested that relations with President Donald Trump, who takes a \u201cbusiness approach\u201d<\/em> to politics, could be more fruitful.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are so many interesting infrastructure projects that we could do together in logistics, in oil prospecting, in oil and gas prospecting, in lots of areas,\u201d<\/em> he said, adding that the two nuclear superpowers cannot afford to be enemies.<\/p>\n

A confrontational approach to Russia will never work, Slutsky argued, adding that the record number of sanctions imposed on Russia by the West has proven ineffective. \u201cRussia is a self-sufficient country, and people are better off being friends with us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Other forms of pressure such as Ukraine\u2019s drone attacks deep inside Russia are ineffective as well, Slutsky said. \u201cThe overwhelming majority of\u2026 attack drones\u2026 high payload drones… are shot down, and very, very few of them actually make it to central Russia.\u201d<\/em> He added that those behind the attacks \u201cpursue a terrible anti-human ideology\u201d<\/em> and are \u201cfailing bitterly.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Watch the full interview here:<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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