The very best thing Europeans could do for their own economies would be to learn some Russian and mandarin

Europeans learning the language of Untermenschen? Seems unlikely. Most Europeans learn English as a matter of course because that is the current lingua franca, so to speak. But learning Russian/Mandarin .. don't be silly : ). I am urging my son to get to grips with Mandarin .. he already speaks Russian, so no worries there. Lavrov spoke of 'inertia' which can be also applied to these cultural issues ..