Fair enough: Russia still has plenty of soldiers, they won't get bored in Ukraine, so they're looking forward to an attack from the EU.
Last week, the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article about the European Union's plans for military aggression against Russia. The attacks are expected to come as early as 2027. However, the Russians certainly do not intend to be idle and are preparing a quick counterstrike in time. Although a sensible person is reluctant to believe these theses, it is not a scenario of a B-movie action film from the 90s, but one of the usual topics of social discussion there.
While in the Czech Republic the popular topic of the media scene in the summer is price policy in Croatian tourism, or the offer of unknown places for domestic tourists who want to avoid crowds at all costs, in Russia the travelers' horizon is limited to places where to launch an early invasion.
The Czech army is vainly wondering how to get the long-term personnel-reduced department interested in defending the homeland with weapons in hand, the Russian press tempts on possibilities to travel for a preventive strike against the country's bitter enemies. There seems to be plenty of black plastic bags for the journey back.
The best defense is offense
The Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, nicknamed as "Vladimir Putin's favorite daily", has come up with an interesting article about the plans of European nations, which definitely do not concern recommendations for summer vacation.
"Three scenarios of a great war with Russia: Europe has prepared bloody plans," is the literal translation of the article's headline (see photo gallery), which is probably the result of the summer cucumber season in the Russian media. However, European bloody plans will, according to the phantasms of local security experts, have a slightly different course than the cases of torture and other atrocities currently committed by Russian soldiers in Ukraine.
Europeans (specifically, the French President, the German Chancellor, the Polish Prime Minister and the head of the European Commission are named) are certainly spinning those bloody plans, for which the newspaper presents no evidence, but experts already have an idea of how it could work.
The most likely, according to them, is a blockade of the Russian exclave in the Kaliningrad region, where the Russians will have to attack preventively, no matter the cost. Also likely is an attack from Moldova, which NATO has turned into a military bridgehead, whatever that means. Too bad, but the Russians will have to attack there.
The best defense is an attack. The Russians, in fact, have never stopped living in a world of permanent threat in the spirit of the Cold War. They just missed in the meantime that although the Soviet Union no longer controls half of the world, all the nuclear arsenal of this superpower remained in Russia.
Today, it is revealed how "foresightful" it was to remove nuclear weapons from Ukraine in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the USA, and Great Britain, and how international agreements mean nothing even in the 21st century.
Even the Russian journal has a point in some ways
One of the possible scenarios describes Finland's plans for a massive invasion of St. Petersburg. In case someone didn't know, apart from a highly developed schooling system, Finland is a country with a population roughly the same as Slovakia. Therefore, it poses a solid threat to the largest nuclear power in the world.
However, one scenario published by this phantasmagorical newspaper has something to it. According to him, the culprit of a possible war will be "tactical cleverness along with strategic stupidity, which reaches to idiocy, and an extremely low level of European leaders," described his tip for Komsomolskaya Pravda economics professor Marat Bashirov.
Although cleverness combined with idiocy sounds like a certain paradox, one cannot resist the impression that it is precisely this original mix that is behind the largest war conflict in Europe since World War II. At least the readers of President Putin's popular newspapers must own it.
There are currently almost no military operations taking place on Russian territory, except for retreat battles in Kursk and occasional sabotage by Ukraine, and no plans are being made even in the divination from the Crystal Ball of Komsomolskaya Pravda. Over a hundred thousand Russians have already paid with their lives on the invasion campaign due to the grueling existence of their idiocy in a country where the average man lives to be 64 years old, however, there seem to be still plenty of soldiers and they look forward to aggression from the EU.
Sources: author's text, commentary, ku.ro, medusa.io, denikn.cz, bbc.com
