{"id":198273,"date":"2019-11-22T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T08:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198273"},"modified":"2019-11-27T06:35:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T06:35:46","slug":"putin-predicts-10-year-collapse-of-eu-and-compares-event-to-soviet-union-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198273","title":{"rendered":"Putin predicts 10-year COLLAPSE of EU – and compares event to Soviet Union fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carly Read \u2013 The Express.co.uk Nov 21, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has predicted the downfall of the European Union in a chilling warning comparing the bloc\u2019s demise to the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

President Putin believes the EU will crumble completely in just 10 years, the same amount of time it took for the USSR to disintegrate on Boxing Day 1991. His remarks hint that the beginning of the end has already started. Sharing his doubts as to whether the EU will be preserved in its current form by the year 2028, he cited Brexit among one of the main causes of the collapse of Brussels, adding it is why it follows \u201cwith concern what is happening there\u201d, in reference to the EU itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that because the EU is Russia\u2019s main trading partner that is why Moscow is interested in everything \u201cworking well\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He said: \u201cBy 2028 some countries in Eastern Europe will reach a sufficient level of development, so that they will no longer receive support from the European budget, but they will have to pay as the United Kingdom did and still does.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPerhaps the same initiatives that exist today in the United Kingdom will arise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He also said that European leaders are considering different scenarios to achieve \u201cmore stable forms of integration\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI don\u2019t know if they will succeed. In any case, I want to wish them success in that task.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

President Putin\u2019s words come after claims he is using his growing influence to rebuild the USSR to garner more power for the Russian state.<\/span><\/p>\n

His most recent power play saw Pantsir-S missile systems touchdown in Serbia as the Russian President strengthens ties with the autocratic administration in Belgrade headed by President Aleksandar Vucic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Putin has already overseen monstrous arms deals with the Balkan state, supplying various weapons for both ground and air combat, including fighter jets, attack helicopters and battle tanks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The deal comes despite warnings from US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration that Washington would impose crippling sanctions on Serbia should they decide to invest in the deadly weaponry.<\/span><\/p>\n

Serbia is not the only country in the Balkan region feeling the Kremlin\u2019s overreaching authority, though.<\/span><\/p>\n

Paul Stronski highlights in his paper \u2018Russia\u2019s game in the Balkans\u2019 that the Kremlin\u2019s influence in the Wester Balkans is geared towards undermining the countries\u2019 hopes of joining the European Union and NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is done by contributing to instability in the region making the nations less likely to be accepted into Western alliances as security fears rise.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian president warns that the European Union could disintegrate and collapse in much the same way as the Soviet Union did nearly thirty years before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198276,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198273\/revisions\/198276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}