Former Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache is very vocal in his opposition to the current EU policy against Russia. In a Dec. 13 interview with RT, he said these policies could trigger a wave of “mass insolvencies and bankruptcies” in 2023, but that anyone who says anything about this “is branded and defamed as a Putin and Russia sympathizer and also as a traitor to Europe.”
Strache said: “Unfortunately, I do not see any European political leaders who want to approach the negotiating table and call for a negotiated ceasefire agreement and a peaceful solution. We Austrians in particular should adhere to our neutrality and our neutrality status could also play a decisive mediating role here. So far, this has not been practiced.”
“Of course, the media in the European Union are silent about all this,” he continued. “And if you express criticism here today, you are often branded and defamed as a Putin and Russia sympathizer and also as a traitor to Europe.…
“People are confronted with the catchphrase that they have to freeze for peace, and then you come to the conclusion: well, freezing doesn’t help, because unfortunately there is no peace … and then you become unemployed and unemployment has not brought peace because there are no negotiation initiatives—people naturally find [this] very, very repulsive and very questionable,” he stated. (https://www.rt.com/news/568187-austria-strache-russia-traitors/ )
