# Intel chief: European society too pampered, unprepared for war with Russia

https://mins.news/en/item/45305

- TASS, 2026-09-04 11:49 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2182745

> Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin said European society, shaped by consumerism and transhumanism, is objectively unprepared for a large-scale war in the East. He claimed Western politicians and the financial-industrial groups behind them use the “threat from the East” myth to sharply raise military spending and place industry and infrastructure on a war footing.

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