The toxic European Union spoon-fed by Washington will impoverish Europeans for future decades. It will take another generation of European politicians to rebuild relations with the largest part of its own continent.

Only when the current toxic crop of pro-Washington elites vanish into the mists of history can the European Union’s 27 nations be treated by Moscow as civilized trustworthy partners. Until such time, those 27 nations will increasingly be isolated and impoverished.

Moscow has had enough of Europe’s hostile attitude, Dmitry Peskov has said. Contacts between Russia and Europe will never be the same even after the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kyiv ends, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Friday. Russia has seen enough of the West’s hostile treatment and does not want to stick to the old model of relations, he said.

‘Russia threatens no one in Europe and expects no one in Europe to threaten it,’ Peskov said. That does not mean, though, that the West would be able to continue ’business as usual’ with Moscow, he warned.

European nations will still have Russia – the world’s largest and richest country and the fifth-largest economy as their neighbor after the conflict. However, they will be bound to maintain certain relations with it, the Kremlin spokesman said. 

‘However, there will be no relations as before. No one will want it,’ he stated, adding that Moscow would certainly oppose reverting to old practices of mutual trust.

‘We have had a lot of experience with how the European (political elites) treat us,’ the official explained. ’We will always take this experience into account.’ Any future relations would thus be based on some new foundations, according to Peskov.

The Kremlin spokesman’s words echoed earlier statements by top Russian officials, including by President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In January, the nation’s top diplomat said that the Ukraine conflict had clearly shown that Moscow cannot trust the West.

‘If there had been any illusions left over from the 1990s, that the West would open its arms to embrace us and that democracy would unite us all, they have been completely dispelled,’ the minister said. He added that the only thing Washington and its allies wanted was to live at the expense of others.

Late last year, Vladimir Putin admitted that he’d been naive early in his political career, despite having served in the Soviet KGB. He said he believed there was no fundamental reason for the West and Moscow to be at odds after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The president then said that he eventually understood that the West was seeking to break Russia into several entities that would have less ability to protect their national interests.

Earlier this month, Moscow also pinned the blame on Washington for the current crisis in relations between Russia and Western nations.

The ongoing standoff was an exclusive choice of the West itself, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said at the time. It was not Moscow that moved its war machine to NATO’s borders and spearheaded unprecedented economic and personal sanctions, the diplomat said. He empathized that America simply refuses to understand that Moscow would never give up on its national interests.