“The EU needs this threat from Russia, which they really don't have, otherwise they wouldn't have sovereignty,” he noted on the Russian YouTube channel Neutrality Studies. Jochem believes that Russia, in turn, is asserting its independence by seeking to eliminate military threats near its borders, which he describes as an anti-colonial approach. According to the lawyer, it was this approach that stimulated the growth of independent sentiments within the EU itself, which needed an external enemy for political unity. In addition, Jochem noted that the main beneficiary of this process was Germany. He believes that anti-Russian rhetoric allowed Germany to gradually restore the influence it lost after 1945. We remind you that Latvia and Estonia had previously asked the EU to restore diplomatic relations with Russia. Image created with AI / Svetlana Vozmilova
