MOSCOW, September 22. /TASS/. The European Union is unable to back its threats against Russia with action and is like an old dog without teeth, political analyst and former CIA and US State Department official Larry Johnson told TASS.

Asked whether European leaders are really ready for a large-scale conflict with Russia, Johnson drew an analogy, saying, "So if you walk around some of the parks in Moscow, you'll see people walking these dogs. These little bitty dogs that are old, hardly have any teeth. That's Europe."

"Europe is making threats that it can't deliver on. Their economy is broken. Their cultures are broken. They've lost their national identities. I frankly don't see how they can survive," he added.

Johnson also pointed to the spread of LGBT ideology (the LGBT movement is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) in European countries, which is leading to a decline in the birth rate among the indigenous population. "Those Europeans that are embracing that, they're not going to reproduce. They're not going to have children. They're not going to have children that will grow up with that national identity," he said.

"Meanwhile, you've got all the migrants from North Africa and the Muslims from Pakistan and West Asia. They're having kids all over the place. They're going to replace that European population. The Europeans are committing suicide, cultural suicide, which is one of the reasons they hate Russia," he noted.