Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl, who was widely criticized by the Anglosphere for inviting her longtime friend Vladimir Putin to her wedding in 2018, has likely drawn further ire for her statements in an RT interview on May 13.
Referring to the ongoing transatlantic disintegration, Kneissl stated that: “We have seen an energy crisis and galloping inflation ever since 2021 at the latest. Now, a lot is blamed on the war [in Ukraine], on Russia.… That’s not true … but unfortunately that is what you hear from European central banks. The entire make-up of the crisis was here long before,” RT quoted her as saying. (https://www.rt.com/business/555408-russia-vital-part-global-economy/)
She also referred to expectations of Russia’s collapse due to the sanctions as a “complete misassessment,” and added that “One thing is certain, we are only in the middle of a global economic situation where we see interdependence.… Oil is a globally traded commodity, and if it’s not flowing west, it can easily flow south, north, east. And this is already happening.”
