Professor Petro's statement that the EU has created, or creates, liberal opportunities for development etc, is indeed extremely remote from reality. There is no EU-created internet company although Internet (HTML and associated algorithms) has been invented in Europe. SAP had to become an American company in order to grow against Oracle and other similar outfits. And SAP represents less than a few percentages of the Internet market where Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and others represent the rest. In the last 40 years there has been no single significant company created in Europe that could dominate any market in the way Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle etc do. Furthermore, should one go into any supermarket and pick a food package of any sort, one would notice that the maker belongs to an American holding. Names like Maggi, Knorr, Suchard and many more have since long passed under American control. Every EUR spend by an EU citizen for food generates a few cents of net profit for an American holding, an American or a Canadian Pension Fund or similar. EU has been created as an instrument of economic vassalisation by American interests, to which subsequently it was added a geopolitical dimension.
Has anyone the actual document/record on the Ukraine-UK deal over that British base on Crimea under SoD Reznikov which Petro mentions? Can´t find it with the search engines all corrupted...
More than half of Russians said for the first time that they were "very tired" of the war
30.10.2025
Lev Fedoseyev/TASS
The war with Ukraine, which has been going on for four years, provokes growing fatigue in Russian society. These results were obtained by VTsIOM during a closed survey commissioned by the Kremlin.
The results of the study were presented by the head of the Presidential Directorate for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes, Alexander Kharichev, in a presentation that was "lowered" to the regions to prepare for the 2026 elections, Vot tak writes.
According to the survey, in 2025, 56% of Russians admitted that they were "very tired of the NWO." Another 27% said they "partially agree" with this statement. The share of the former increased by 9 percentage points compared to 2024, and the share of the latter by 6 percentage points.
In total, sociologists found war fatigue in 83% of Russians. And the share of those who are not tired and want to continue hostilities has fallen below 20%.
Russian society is entering a "phase of serious disappointment," says sociologist Elena Koneva. People are increasingly concerned about their financial situation, which is hit by inflation, which has exceeded 40% since the beginning of the war, even according to official data from Rosstat. If two years ago 15% complained about the deterioration of their personal financial situation, now 35%, Koneva points out.
The share of those who believe that life in the country will become better in the near future has dropped to lows since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, a FOM survey showed. The deterioration of social sentiment has been increasing since the end of 2024, sociologists Vladimir Zvonovsky and Alexander Khodykin write: inflation is accelerating, income growth has slowed down, and in order to finance military spending, the Russian authorities have decided to increase the tax burden on the population.
Russians in general assess the current situation extremely negatively, Zvonovsky and Khodykin point out: never before during the war has the share of those who felt the deterioration of their financial situation been so large - for every one person who spoke about an improvement in their situation in October 2025, there were more than three who spoke about a deterioration.
Following society, the elites are also tired of the war, who have been deprived of their usual life by the new reality, sources close to the Kremlin told The Washington Post earlier. According to insiders, most people in the Kremlin oppose the war, but are afraid to tell Vladimir Putin about it: "They all need to show that they are patriots," the source explained to WaPo.
Although the losses from the war are growing, and the reserves of the economy are depleting, Putin is firmly determined to continue fighting, US intelligence believes. According to her, the Russian president has taken a more aggressive stance than at any time since the beginning of the invasion. Now Putin is seeking to justify the losses suffered and seize as much territory as possible, sources familiar with intelligence told NBC.
1
Russians began to be fined for subscribing to Telegram channels
2
A thirty-year-old trader from Germany made $250 million by reselling Russian oil from his phone
3
Russia has started selling oil at record discounts in recent years due to sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil
4
Arkady Volozh sold all the available capacity of his data centers in the West and increased revenue by 350%
5
In Ukraine, the world's first "drone wall" will be deployed within a few weeks to protect against Russian attacks
Running out of soldiers yet the age of eligibility is 25? Are Ukrainians wusses? My high school classmates were drafted to serve in Viet Nam if they were 18 or older.
True he doesn´t come up with earth-shattering allegations.
But his suggestions on how Europe could develop are e.g. noteworthy.
Also the rather tacit admissions to the actual criminal nature of the Ukrainian regime.
Petro is an establishment figure so - I suspect - he has to be cautious in his wording otherwise he might not be taken seriously in his community.
However, watch his conversations with Pascal Lottaz early this year, those were much more openly critical and came across as quiet honest and expressed even sarcasm over the corruption of everyone in the West involved in the killing off of Ukraine´s men. But there he spoke about issues which were in the past and well-established by that time.
As an academic you try to be not emotional nor too speculative. Again that is not entertaining.
Since if you are an academic you can most likely only rely on data which you have scrutinized and which always makes for "boring" reading because it comes across as so "safe".
Febr. 24, 2023 Petro wrote this piece "Cold War Realism: Lessons for Ukraine" where this profound suggestion could well be overlooked:
See 2nd paragraph
"(...)
Once again, many Western leaders labelled the subsequent invasion of Ukraine as a precursor to an attack on NATO, and began making statements about how it must be used to remold the world for future generations. Once this view becomes the conventional wisdom, it is not hard to see how it will be used to ensure domestic support for foreign military adventures for decades to come.
All this hints at the existence of a long term U.S. foreign policy strategy that outside observers can only guess at. I would not be at all surprised if, thirty years from now, future historians learned of the existence of a new NSC-68—America’s 1950 blueprint for conducting the Cold War—cooked up within the Biden administration in anticipation of just such a confrontation. After all, the contents of NSC-68 itself, although rumored about for years, were only revealed in 1975.
If a major professor is sticking out his head in such a way (Petro is not some blogger, pundit or propagandist) - consider what his suspicion implies on a diplomatic and political level - it is serious as the prerogative of interpretation in any state on elite level is drawn from such university spaces.
US geopolitics against Russia was shaped by members of the elite US academic community who mostly happened to be Russophobes (think Kissinger, Pipes or Brzezinski who would give us Albright.)
So intellectual traditions can turn out highly murderous as they inform actual policies. And those lines of action begin here, in spaces of talk and dry theory.
Or to quote one of Noam Chomsky´s most famous essay titles: "The responsibility of intellectuals". That´s simply because words eventually can kill millions.
Professor Petro's statement that the EU has created, or creates, liberal opportunities for development etc, is indeed extremely remote from reality. There is no EU-created internet company although Internet (HTML and associated algorithms) has been invented in Europe. SAP had to become an American company in order to grow against Oracle and other similar outfits. And SAP represents less than a few percentages of the Internet market where Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and others represent the rest. In the last 40 years there has been no single significant company created in Europe that could dominate any market in the way Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle etc do. Furthermore, should one go into any supermarket and pick a food package of any sort, one would notice that the maker belongs to an American holding. Names like Maggi, Knorr, Suchard and many more have since long passed under American control. Every EUR spend by an EU citizen for food generates a few cents of net profit for an American holding, an American or a Canadian Pension Fund or similar. EU has been created as an instrument of economic vassalisation by American interests, to which subsequently it was added a geopolitical dimension.
1938: Judea declares war against Germany.
2020: Judea declares war against the West.
The Ukraine war has resulted in the death of
over 1 million White Christian Ukrainians and
Russians.
Zionists like Blackrock are already buying up
vast numbers of &Ukrainian farmland, the
breadbasket of Europe.
Zionists have already made plans for turning
Ukrainian into part of Greater Israhell.
To make things simpler, AN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER IS THE ONLY ANSWER. Rearming Ukraine is out of the question.
Has anyone the actual document/record on the Ukraine-UK deal over that British base on Crimea under SoD Reznikov which Petro mentions? Can´t find it with the search engines all corrupted...
More than half of Russians said for the first time that they were "very tired" of the war
30.10.2025
Lev Fedoseyev/TASS
The war with Ukraine, which has been going on for four years, provokes growing fatigue in Russian society. These results were obtained by VTsIOM during a closed survey commissioned by the Kremlin.
The results of the study were presented by the head of the Presidential Directorate for Monitoring and Analysis of Social Processes, Alexander Kharichev, in a presentation that was "lowered" to the regions to prepare for the 2026 elections, Vot tak writes.
According to the survey, in 2025, 56% of Russians admitted that they were "very tired of the NWO." Another 27% said they "partially agree" with this statement. The share of the former increased by 9 percentage points compared to 2024, and the share of the latter by 6 percentage points.
In total, sociologists found war fatigue in 83% of Russians. And the share of those who are not tired and want to continue hostilities has fallen below 20%.
Russian society is entering a "phase of serious disappointment," says sociologist Elena Koneva. People are increasingly concerned about their financial situation, which is hit by inflation, which has exceeded 40% since the beginning of the war, even according to official data from Rosstat. If two years ago 15% complained about the deterioration of their personal financial situation, now 35%, Koneva points out.
The share of those who believe that life in the country will become better in the near future has dropped to lows since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, a FOM survey showed. The deterioration of social sentiment has been increasing since the end of 2024, sociologists Vladimir Zvonovsky and Alexander Khodykin write: inflation is accelerating, income growth has slowed down, and in order to finance military spending, the Russian authorities have decided to increase the tax burden on the population.
Russians in general assess the current situation extremely negatively, Zvonovsky and Khodykin point out: never before during the war has the share of those who felt the deterioration of their financial situation been so large - for every one person who spoke about an improvement in their situation in October 2025, there were more than three who spoke about a deterioration.
Following society, the elites are also tired of the war, who have been deprived of their usual life by the new reality, sources close to the Kremlin told The Washington Post earlier. According to insiders, most people in the Kremlin oppose the war, but are afraid to tell Vladimir Putin about it: "They all need to show that they are patriots," the source explained to WaPo.
Although the losses from the war are growing, and the reserves of the economy are depleting, Putin is firmly determined to continue fighting, US intelligence believes. According to her, the Russian president has taken a more aggressive stance than at any time since the beginning of the invasion. Now Putin is seeking to justify the losses suffered and seize as much territory as possible, sources familiar with intelligence told NBC.
1
Russians began to be fined for subscribing to Telegram channels
2
A thirty-year-old trader from Germany made $250 million by reselling Russian oil from his phone
3
Russia has started selling oil at record discounts in recent years due to sanctions against Rosneft and Lukoil
4
Arkady Volozh sold all the available capacity of his data centers in the West and increased revenue by 350%
5
In Ukraine, the world's first "drone wall" will be deployed within a few weeks to protect against Russian attacks
Running out of soldiers yet the age of eligibility is 25? Are Ukrainians wusses? My high school classmates were drafted to serve in Viet Nam if they were 18 or older.
most boring.
Not necessarily.
True he doesn´t come up with earth-shattering allegations.
But his suggestions on how Europe could develop are e.g. noteworthy.
Also the rather tacit admissions to the actual criminal nature of the Ukrainian regime.
Petro is an establishment figure so - I suspect - he has to be cautious in his wording otherwise he might not be taken seriously in his community.
However, watch his conversations with Pascal Lottaz early this year, those were much more openly critical and came across as quiet honest and expressed even sarcasm over the corruption of everyone in the West involved in the killing off of Ukraine´s men. But there he spoke about issues which were in the past and well-established by that time.
As an academic you try to be not emotional nor too speculative. Again that is not entertaining.
Since if you are an academic you can most likely only rely on data which you have scrutinized and which always makes for "boring" reading because it comes across as so "safe".
Febr. 24, 2023 Petro wrote this piece "Cold War Realism: Lessons for Ukraine" where this profound suggestion could well be overlooked:
See 2nd paragraph
"(...)
Once again, many Western leaders labelled the subsequent invasion of Ukraine as a precursor to an attack on NATO, and began making statements about how it must be used to remold the world for future generations. Once this view becomes the conventional wisdom, it is not hard to see how it will be used to ensure domestic support for foreign military adventures for decades to come.
All this hints at the existence of a long term U.S. foreign policy strategy that outside observers can only guess at. I would not be at all surprised if, thirty years from now, future historians learned of the existence of a new NSC-68—America’s 1950 blueprint for conducting the Cold War—cooked up within the Biden administration in anticipation of just such a confrontation. After all, the contents of NSC-68 itself, although rumored about for years, were only revealed in 1975.
(...)"
https://usrussiaaccord.org/nicolai-n-petro-cold-war-realism-lessons-for-ukraine/#more-6601
If a major professor is sticking out his head in such a way (Petro is not some blogger, pundit or propagandist) - consider what his suspicion implies on a diplomatic and political level - it is serious as the prerogative of interpretation in any state on elite level is drawn from such university spaces.
US geopolitics against Russia was shaped by members of the elite US academic community who mostly happened to be Russophobes (think Kissinger, Pipes or Brzezinski who would give us Albright.)
So intellectual traditions can turn out highly murderous as they inform actual policies. And those lines of action begin here, in spaces of talk and dry theory.
Or to quote one of Noam Chomsky´s most famous essay titles: "The responsibility of intellectuals". That´s simply because words eventually can kill millions.