If Republican candidate Donald Trump wins the US presidential election Russia will be blamed for this, Italian author Gianluca Ferrara told Sputnik. However, he suggested, if Trump wins there is a great chance of a thaw between Moscow and Washington.

Despite the fact on the election in the United States is neck-and-neck, people in Europe, including in Italy, are mainly pro-Clinton.

A recent Sputnik.Polls survey revealed that the majority of people in France (56 percent), Spain (55 percent) and Italy (53 percent), as well as 50 percent of Germans, 47 percent of Polish people, and 36 percent of British people would like to see Hillary Clinton as the next US president.

Possibly, this is because of media coverage of the US presidential campaign has been concentrated on covering scandals around Trump while ignoring, for example, the leaked emails of Hillary Clinton campaign’s chief John Podesta.

In an interview with Sputnik Italia, author and editor-in-chief of Dissenzi Edizioni Gianluca Ferrara commented on the upcoming US election and its consequences for global politics.

"I believe that if Trump wins Russia will be immediately blamed for this, because they [the US establishment] will need a scapegoat. Then, when the panic is over, the media will praise Trump despite the fact that he was criticized during the electoral campaign," Ferrara said.

According to him, the main problem here is the fact that "major media outlets are not independent."

"There is big money behind. Instead of trying to understand what journalists would say, we should try to understand what interests they would translate," he pointed out.

"Time will tell whether Trump will try to change the situation and stand against big money. He has made too many statements to win the electorate’s support. He is a man of American capitalism. Maybe, he will be able to change something," Ferrara said.

He also suggested that in the event of Trump’s victory the most positive outcome will be an ease in tensions between Moscow and Washington.

"This is the thing that matters the most. Clinton has been a very hawkish politician during her career. Take a look at Libya and Syria or listen to her comments about Russia. After the 1989 anti-Communist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe the idea of an alternative to the American empire has been unacceptable. But this could lead to a war. This is madness," Ferrara concluded.

Claims that Donald Trump is a Kremlin-endorsed candidate has been an inherent part of Clinton’s electoral campaign.

Moreover, many US officials and politicians, including the Democratic presidential hopeful and her supporters, have accused Russia of hacking into servers of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and trying to interfere with the US election.

Recently, after the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reopened its probe into the Hillary Clinton's private email server, US Democratic Senator Tim Ryan was quick to suggest that the Russian government was behind the move.

"The question is where did these documents come from? How did they get to the FBI? Is Russia involved? We don't have any clue where this stuff is coming from," the senator said.

Russian officials have repeatedly said that Moscow has in no way influenced the election process in the United States and does not intend to do so.

Speaking at a session of the Valdai Discussion Club in late-October, Russia President Vladimir Putin called the claims on Russia’s alleged interference with the US election "hysteria."

"Does anyone seriously think that Russia can somehow influence the choice of the American people? Is America a banana republic or what? America is a great power," the president said.