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EU Needs Russia as ‘External Enemy’ to Collect More Taxes

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Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that voters do not like thisMOSCOW, August 30. /TASS/. European authorities are trying to portray Russia as an "external enemy" in order to collect more taxes from their populations for their defense capabilities...

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The European authorities use the image of the Russian threat to justify the increase in taxes on military needs to their own citizens, and press secretary Dmitry Peskov, President of Russia, said. European countries have created the image of an enemy in Russia to explain to the population the need to raise defence taxes, they send "Vesti." President Dmitry Peskov explained that Europe has lost a cheap U.S. umbrella of security and is now forced …

The European authorities needed the image of Russia as an external opponent in order to convince citizens to accept the increase in defence spending, an assessment that Russian President Dmitry Peskov's press secretary gave to IP journalist "Vesti" Paul Zarubin.

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Life.ru broke the news on Sunday, August 30, 2026.
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