On September 23, the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, complained about the “extremely nervous, hysterical” reaction of NATO and the European Union countries to the “referendums” in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions and the so-called “DNR” and “LNR”. According to him, European officials are imposing new sanctions against Russia because they hate any form of popular will - and Naryshkin cited two cases as an example: the 2017 referendum in Catalonia on secession from Spain, as well as the upcoming plebiscite in 2023 on the withdrawal of Scotland from the Great Britain.
However, in doing so, Borrell <EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy - The Insider> betrayed the true attitude of the Western ruling class towards democracy: he hates the will of the people. After all, referendums are one of the fundamental instruments of real democracy, which is not controlled by the oligarchy and corrupt political technologists. Borrell's position reflects a deep fear of the "collective West", where power is concentrated in the hands of a narrow group of people, bypassing democratic procedures and can be lost in the event of a direct expression of the will of the population.
At the same time, the EU bureaucrats' rejection of referendums in the territories liberated during the NWO cannot be regarded as a special case. Western “democracy advocates” reacted just as nervously to Catalonia’s 2017 self-determination plebiscite, and are now seeking to prevent the Scottish authorities from organizing a second referendum on the region’s independence in 2023.
The European Commission did not really recognize the results of the referendum in Catalonia - and even before it was held, it emphasized that the confrontation between the Catalans and the authorities in Madrid is an internal affair of Spain. However, it was rather the position of an outside observer - no sanctions were imposed against Catalonia.
As for the referendum in Scotland, which is planned to be held in 2023 by the Scottish National Party, led by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, the European Commission has not commented on it at all. His active opponent is the British government - both the current Prime Minister Liz Truss and her predecessor Boris Johnson. At the same time, a second referendum (the first one was held in 2014) was started by the Scots precisely with the aim of re-entering the EU - the majority of the inhabitants of the autonomy were against Brexit. Thus, according to Naryshkin's logic, "hating free will" European officials should have prevented the referendum on Britain's exit from the European Union, and the return of the Scots to the "native European bosom", on the contrary, should be encouraged.