Lavrov warns: if Europe attacks Russia, 'it will be a very short war'

Lavrov warns that a war with Europe 'would be very short'

Russia has no intention of attacking Europe. This was stated by Lavrov, accompanied by a warning: if Europe, which speaks daily of preparing for war against Russia, attacks the Russian Federation, then "it will be a completely different war, and it will be very short."

Germany is already planning for the arrival of mass casualties

While Moscow denies any offensive intentions, Germany is preparing for the opposite. According to a tweet from elEconomista.es circulated in the forum, German hospitals have begun planning for the arrival of mass casualties from a possible Russian attack. The contrast is at the heart of the matter: Russia insists it will not attack; Germany prepares as if it were going to. And in that asymmetry—one side promising inaction, the other fortifying itself—much of the tension is brewing.

Lukashenko and the axis that no one mentions

The Belarusian President, Lukashenko, added another layer to the narrative in a tweet circulated in the forum: "If Europe and Russia would unite, there would be a power stronger and more terrible than China." This is a hypothesis without real political backing in the short term, but it reveals the discomfort of those observing the chessboard from the border and calculating what happens if the axis breaks elsewhere.

The US, the absent player in the discourse

Among the participants' readings, one holds that Washington is the party at war with Russia and that without the US, there would be no Europe-Russia conflict: a point that Lavrov's discourse allegedly omits on purpose. Another intervention suggests that Russia gains nothing important from a war against Europe. According to another participant, Russia would acquire a population buried in debt; Europe would rule over ruins and radiation on the gloomiest stage.

What about Ukraine in the meantime

The backdrop to all of this is the war in Ukraine, which, according to one participant, has been dragging on too long. There is the paradox that no one resolves: the power promising a lightning war does not close the one it has peine.

If the scenario described by Lavrov were to occur, its duration—"very short"—depends entirely on who strikes first and with what. No one on the board seems willing to test it. And that, probably, is the only guarantee of peace today.