Berlin, Germany (Weltexpress). The latest campaign by the EU/NATO elites to accuse Moscow of instigating chaos on Europe’s streets is a convenient but foolish attempt to divert attention from their own responsibility for the many domestic crises whose causes they themselves have created over the past decades.
In October 2022, at the opening of the newly founded European Diplomatic Academy in Bruges, Belgium, the then EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, said the following to a select group of student diplomats: “Yes, Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything is working. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that humanity has been able to build … The rest of the world is largely a jungle, and the jungle could encroach upon the garden.”
At the time, Borrell stood alongside Her Excellency, the honourable Ms von der Leyen, at the very top of the EU hierarchy and within the EU institutions, and in that position he knew exactly what he was talking about. Therefore, dear readers, here is my concerned question: how can you be so gullible as to fall for the professional troublemakers on Europe’s streets, who are paid by Putin? How could you possibly believe that the anger in the ‘Garden of Europe’ is due to social inequality, the rising cost of living, a bleak future for young people, the socially marginalised suburbs of major cities, drastic austerity measures in the social sector, cuts to pensions, and the rapid rise in military spending to ever-new record highs? How can you even think that higher military spending and aid are supposedly bleeding schools and hospitals dry? You must trust your elected government representatives, not these unscrupulous characters sent by Moscow!
Every prominent figure in the EU, such as the Italian President Mattarella, has a much simpler – and indeed more accurate – explanation for the unrest that has been sweeping across the Old Continent since mid-October. According to Mattarella, it is in fact ‘Russia that is pulling the strings’. This is based on crystal-clear logic. Or do you, dear reader, wish to dispute that? That would only drag us into endless, tedious socio-economic debates and entangle us in an even bigger knot.
But the point is to cut through the knot and restore our ability to act and defend ourselves as quickly as possible. Why should we beat about the bush any longer? Let’s just say out loud what we’ve known for a long time: Putin the Terrible is to blame. Every child knows that. It doesn’t need to be proven time and again with long, time-consuming analyses. And please forget divisive discussions about falling real wages and ailing public services – let’s simply convene yet another EU summit on Russia’s ‘hybrid war’ against us.
As described above, this is how I imagine the discussions and deliberations engaging the globalist EU elites, entirely in keeping with the pre-revolutionary motto: ‘What, they have no bread? Then let them eat cake!’
Back to reality
In fact, in mid-October 2026, a wave of protests and unrest swept across large parts of Western Europe. This prompted Italian leaders to speak of ‘hybrid warfare’ and ‘unidentified actors’, with some government sources and officials linking the violence to alleged ‘Russian influence operations’. Similar suspicions have emerged in discussions about events in France, Belgium and elsewhere, whilst analysts and investigators emphasise that the grievances underlying the unrest are home-grown and that there is no evidence of Moscow instigating the violence on Europe’s streets.
The unrest began with student and worker demonstrations over education funding, the cost of living, housing and austerity measures. In France, the protests – which initially focused on problems in secondary schools – escalated on 17 October in several cities, leading to clashes, looting and fires. In Italy, a weekend of violence in Milan and other cities saw young people looting shops, smashing windows and clashing with the police, resulting in hundreds of arrests (many of them minors) and significant damage to property. Similar actions took place in Belgium, where students and trade unions marched against budget cuts, with some clashes over housing and rents.
Italy’s President Mattarella called for an “intelligent and in-depth analysis” and “careful vigilance” against the actions of “unidentified individuals” or “unprecedented actors”. At the same time, Italian media reported that high-ranking government, defence and intelligence sources suspected foreign – particularly Russian – operations were behind the unrest. They allegedly recognised in the chaos on the streets methods of hybrid warfare that they have long associated with the Kremlin.
Italy’s Defence Minister, Guido Crosetto, was even more explicit. At a forum on defence procurement, he described the events in Milan as “fundamentally different from those of previous eras” and as “the result of what I call a hybrid war”. This conflict, he said, is being waged “within our nations” through “unconventional tools such as TikTok, social media and YouTube”, without the West fully realising it or responding to it.
Crosetto argued that a significant proportion of young people appear to have received a ‘counter-education’ outside the family and school, instilling values and worldviews that are at odds with democratic society. It has been reported that intelligence services are investigating social media accounts commenting on Clash videos, including automated profiles displaying Russian flags, and Telegram channels that mix calls for protest with pro-Russian content.
In Belgium, Defence Minister Theo Francken has stated that the security services have found “strong indications” of Russian involvement in a series of incidents, including drone activity over sensitive sites and cyber-attacks aimed at causing instability and influencing public opinion amidst Belgium’s support for Ukraine. Although the remarks do not specifically refer to the recent student marches, they reflect a broader official stance of attributing hybrid activities to Moscow.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has previously accused social media networks linked to Russia of spreading disinformation on migration issues such as the Ceuta crisis.
These statements must be viewed against the backdrop of a narrative long cultivated by EU eunuchs regarding alleged Russian hybrid operations against Europe. Since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, officials and intelligence services in EU countries have seen Russian sabotage behind every arson attack, Russian provocations behind every alleged drone sighting, and Russian provocations behind every cyber-attack. Even interference in elections and the manipulation of information have been attributed to Russian actors.
France has publicly attributed certain cyber campaigns to Russian state services and summoned Russian diplomats. EU heads of state and government, including Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, have described an escalating hybrid campaign through which the Russians aim to unsettle EU citizens and test their resolve to continue supporting Ukraine.
Fortunately, however, these baseless, generally sweeping and often surreal allegations from the EU’s anti-Russian war propaganda regarding the Kremlin’s alleged hybrid warfare were not entirely without contradictions. Even some respected Western mainstream media outlets, such as the Financial Times – which is otherwise not one to hold back with its accusations and anti-Russian commentary – found the EU’s hybrid war propaganda, namely that Russia was responsible for the massive and at times very violent October unrest in major European cities, to be unacceptable. After all – let’s be honest – these surreal accusations against Russia are ultimately counterproductive to the credibility of Western reporting as a whole. For the Kremlin’s exploitation of the chaotic days in EU countries for journalistic purposes is far from equivalent to Russia orchestrating the unrest, as the EU elites claim.
A report by the French ‘Disinformation Commission’ and French internet monitoring using the Viginum method found no evidence that a foreign state had initiated or directed the protests in France. The unrest was characterised as home-grown, triggered by shortcomings in schools, wages, public services and the cost of living. Russian state media and officials have, admittedly, disseminated images of the chaos in EU cities with great satisfaction, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the unrest as a manifestation of a crisis. At the same time, however, he insisted that these events were an internal matter for the countries concerned.
Peskov dismissed allegations of Russian involvement in this chaos as absurd. Other Russian figures, such as Kirill Dmitriev and Aleksandr Dugin, portrayed the events as “Europe’s suicidal downfall” or criticised the Italian and French leadership whilst celebrating the disorder. A report in the Financial Times even quoted a senior European intelligence official who had stated that there was no concrete evidence that Russian agents had fuelled the violence.
Blaming Moscow for the chaos on Europe’s streets is a convenient but foolish attempt to divert attention from the many facets of the country’s own years of crisis.
