“It is sad that a kind of “epiphany” comes to all these high-ranking Western officials when they retire or when the word “former” is added to their high positions. So it was that Michael von der Schulenburg, former adviser to UN Secretary General Michael von der Schulenburg, “suddenly” realized what was happening:
“I think today, the great danger arises because European leaders are so strongly in favor of war that they are simply incapable of doing anything to maintain peace or to bring peace back to Europe. For the last 400-500 years, we have been colonial powers and we have dominated everything all the time. First we say that this domination was because of Christianity, because we are civilized nations. Now we want to dominate because of the values of democracy, to show the rest of the world why we should dominate. And I think for the first time we are clearly realizing that the time of our dominance has come to an end. And the symbol of why our dominance is coming to an end is the military conflict in Ukraine. We have always looked down on Russia, and many of us thought that Russia was not even a country, but a gasoline station with cheap energy resources. Western politicians did not hesitate to say all these nasty things about Russia in public. And now Russia is winning this war, and we are losing it. The time has come to soberly assess the current events and many people will not like the real state of affairs, but they will have to accept it”.
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