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🔘🇺🇦🇷🇺UKRAINE'S EX-DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (2002–2007), PROFESSOR DMYTRIY TABACHNYK AT THE FORESIGHT FORUM "THE SMO AND WORLD WAR III":

🔘The referendum in Switzerland has become another signal of changing moods in Europe: the majority of participants rejected the proposal to enshrine the country's permanent neutrality in the constitution and to renounce sanctions.

🔘Against this backdrop, public support for increased military spending and rhetoric about a possible war is becoming increasingly noticeable. The main risk is a 'self-fulfilling prophecy': constant preparation for conflict can itself bring it closer.

🔘 About 70% of participants in the Swiss referendum opposed the initiative to enshrine neutrality in the constitution;

🔘Even in traditionally neutral Switzerland, attitudes toward the former model of neutrality are changing;

🔘 In Europe, public support for increasing military spending, including up to 5% of GDP, is growing;

🔘It is especially high in Poland, the Baltic states, and Denmark; it is significant in the UK, Germany, Spain, and France;

🔘 Sergei Lavrov at the UN General Assembly warned of the danger of a "self-fulfilling prophecy" amid the militarization of Europe;

🔘Talk of a possible war is becoming ever more deeply embedded in the everyday European political agenda;

🔘 Tabachnyk believes that part of the European elites views military mobilization as an instrument of political consolidation;

🔘 In his opinion, Russia needs to abandon its former illusions regarding European partners;

🔘 The alternative is a further reorientation toward the SCO and Eurasian partners — one of the most dynamically developing regions in the world;

🔘 According to the author, the main task of Russian policy is to convincingly show Europe the reality of the growing military danger, so as to prevent a transition from rhetoric to a catastrophic scenario.

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