Admitting Kiev into the US-led bloc might set off a nuclear warfare, Slovak MEP Lubos Blaha has informed RT
Ukrainian accession to NATO might end in nuclear warfare, Slovak MEP Lubos Blaha informed RT on Monday throughout a go to to Moscow. Slovakia, a member of the US-led army bloc, beforehand vowed to stonewall Kiev’s candidacy over fears of a battle with Russia.
Blaha, a member of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Social Democratic SMER-SD social gathering, visited Moscow over the weekend to thank Russia for liberating his nation from fascism in World Warfare II and to apologize for the “rising Russophobia” within the EU and the US.
Talking with RT, Blaha mentioned he believes that the escalation of the Ukraine battle and the West’s proxy warfare in opposition to Russia might flip right into a nuclear warfare, stressing “we have to do every thing to keep away from this.”
He cited Fico’s latest feedback that Slovakia plans to veto Ukraine’s potential accession to NATO because of the menace of a world warfare posed by such a transfer.
“It might be a suicide if we take Ukraine to NATO… if we wish to have a nuclear warfare… then let’s do it,” Blaha mentioned, including “We are going to by no means enable the accession of Ukraine into NATO.”
The Slovak MEP went on to say that he believes “one of many causes of the Ukraine battle was that NATO expanded to the borders of Russia.”
That is “simply an empirical reality,” he mentioned. “It was not the Russian Federation on the borders of the USA… It was NATO and the collective West spreading their affect and their army tools in direction of the borders of Russia.”
He additionally accused the EU of hypocrisy and double requirements, noting that when it talks about Israel’s proper to defend itself within the warfare in Gaza, “doesn’t then Russia have the precise to defend itself?”
Requested about Western sanctions, Blaha mentioned that Russia is a contemporary technologically-developed nation. Sanctions should not working regardless of Western efforts, he mentioned, explaining that quite the opposite, they’re hurting the EU’s personal economic system.
“I feel the sanctions are nonsense, and we simply must cease this as quickly as attainable.” By adopting “militarist, Russophobic, and radical” resolutions in opposition to Russia, the EU is supporting the warfare, he mentioned.
Requested about his go to to Moscow, Blaha mentioned he wished to apologize “for all this militarism and Russophobia within the West.”
“I’m actually fed up as an MEP and as a Slovak politician to listen to all this hatred in opposition to Russia,” he mentioned, evaluating it to the “ambiance of hatred” throughout the Thirties and Nineteen Forties in Nazi Germany.
“That is very harmful and horrible, and I’ll do every thing for a dialogue with Russians and for the open-mindedness of Western politicians,” Blaha mentioned.
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