“Fantasies about Russia may spark World War III”, The Sunday Guardian, January 04, 2026
“Wars involving major powers get sometimes lit by fixations, or to use a less charitable word, fantasies, on threats that are imaginary. An extreme example with widespread worldwide consequences is the fixation of major European powers, including Germany, France and Britain that they are under imminent threat of a kinetic offensive by the Russian Federation. They need to see the comment on this made by US Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard. This comment, made on a prominent social media platform, is that the DNI has evaluated that the Russian Federation lacks the capability to invade and occupy even the whole of Ukraine, much less the capability of doing so to countries in Europe such as France, Germany and Britain.
Indirectly, the DNI was defending President Trump, who has been accused by several in Europe that he is “too soft on Russia”. It is realistic of President Trump to seek a detente with the Russian Federation for the purpose of teaming up to jointly utilise the immense natural wealth of Russia for mutual benefit. They need to admit that President Trump was right and they, Prime Minister Starmer, Federal Chancellor Merz and President Macron, were wrong. The problem for this simple public affirmation of a fact is that taxpayers in countries with Russophobe Heads of Government will then ask them why they have been paying so much additional taxation if the grim scenario of an imminent Russian attack were overdrawn.
Whether it be Germany, France or Britain, the not inconsequential expenditure incurred by them on sustaining the Ukrainian conflict has resulted in slower economic growth and greater financial stringency and insecurity amongst the households of millions of citizens. Yet whatever the political risk involved, it would be better for Merz, Starmer and Macron to continue the present disastrous course of action taken by them. In the past, such fantasies have on occasion led Europe to war……”
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