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Tens of thousands of angry and betrayed Europeans demonstrated against the rising cost of living, with concerned citizens linking the crisis to the West’s anti-Russia policies.

A trade union-organized protest numbering 100,000 (police say 80,000) demonstrators packed the streets of Brussels on Monday, bringing the city capital of the European Union to a standstill. In addition to expressing anger at the rising cost of living in Belgium, many condemned the US-led NATO alliance and its involvement in the Ukrainian conflict.

Trade unions said that 100,000 people attended the protest, while police said that the turnout was closer to 80,000, Reuters reported. In addition to packing the streets, the protest led to mass cancellations of flights at Brussels Airport, as unions representing security personnel went on strike.

Public transit routes around the city were also operating at drastically reduced capacity. Meanwhile, Britain was brought to a standstill and offices and businesses struggled to survive a national rail strike – the first in 30 years.

Inflation hit 9% in Belgium in June; a four-decade high. With spending power declining, protesters demanded salary hikes and tax cuts. However, many linked their dire economic straits to the EU’s sanctions regime on Russia and the NATO alliance’s rush to arm Ukraine.

Protesters demanded that their leaders ’spend money on salaries, not on weapons,’ and chanted ’stop NATO.’ 

While similar protests against rising costs are taking place across Europe – thousands of trade unionists marched in London on Saturday after linking the soaring prices with the actions of NATO and its members.

Ironically, just three months ago, some protesters in Brussels waved Ukrainian flags and demanded that the EU cut itself off from ’Putin’s Oil.’ Weeks before that, there was a demonstration outside European Parliament buildings calling for ’sanctions for Russia.’ 

Brussels is home to the headquarters of both the EU and NATO. It was also the city from where US President Joe Biden chose to announce a round of sanctions on Moscow in March, before immediately admitting to a reporter that ‘sanctions never deter’ those targeted by them.

Despite predicting in April that these measures would ’wipe out the last 15 years of Russia’s economic gains,’ Russia’s energy earnings have hit record levels since February, and the Russian ruble is currently at a seven-year high against the euro.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused European countries of committing economic suicide via sanctions, and predicted last week that the EU’s ’direct losses’ from this sanctions policy ’could exceed $400 billion in a year.’

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