EU in 'standoff' with Russia - Austria -- RT World News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : In October, EU Commissioner for Defense and Space Andrius Kubilius, a former Lithuanian prime minister, said the bloc must "prepare for war" and "be ready to meet Russia militarily in six to eight years.
42% : Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, a number of EU officials have suggested that Moscow may be harboring aggressive plans toward the bloc.
41% : "Earlier this month, vice speaker of the Russian parliament's upper chamber, Konstantin Kosachev, described the EU as having devolved into an "aggressive political bloc with military inclinations" and a "union of war."
36% : Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly dismissed such allegations as "nonsense."In an interview to Der Standard newspaper on Wednesday, Schallenberg said that, while the EU and Russia were not "at war as defined under international law, we are in a standoff."

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