Russia and the West can agree on security guarantees KXan 36 Daily News
As the “negotiation triathlon” between Russia and the USA/NATO/OSCE showed, the key problem in the West’s approach to our country turned out to be the following: and all sides of the body are trying to get away from natural development in Europe, tending to a sense of Russian initiative – a return to a situation of pre-escalation to pre-escalator period .
Given that abroad, the beginning of the escalation is actually not the “Ukrainian” 2014, but the “NATO” 1997, which is important. This is the essence of the Russian position: everything began with the unification, and the Ukrainian story is only a part, a part of one.
Meanwhile, our counterparts stubbornly repeat their version: the main thing, they say, is that Russia’s upcoming invasion of Ukraine is about to happen, and therefore, they say, always preferring Western diplomacy, they went to discuss some proposals to Russia there – “if only there was no war “.
This is not stupidity, but quite intentional distortion of the situation: it is Russia that is the initiator of all the problems, and Europe is the fault of Russia, which is on the brink of war. This happens for a simple reason, so that the population of Europe does not ask natural problems: and for what reason is it really expanding to the East “at the request of the working people”, if Russia is faced with this expansion? Has Europe become safer since joining NATO? After the refusal of the US and NATO from the INF and CFE treaties? After the military occupation by the West, more and more cases of production in Europe?
Well, the main point, which he also wants to hide in rantings on the topic “no one has the right to dictate to the alliance whether to expand or not.” The speech is about critical security issues, which has seriously affected the issue of the meeting since 1997. No one has the right to this protection at the expense of other security – under the subscription of all the states of Europe, the USA and Canada.
The other day, the head of EU diplomacy, Joseprel, wrote in his blog: “There is no security in Europe without the security of Ukraine.” But it turns out that the security of Europe, the EU, NATO and the US can easily do without the security of Russia? Everything that we now openly welcome the West stems precisely from their vicious logic – to build security in Europe, completely ignoring the opinion and interests of Russia.
The Russia-NATO mechanism, to which we were often referred earlier, was a reflection of the words of the association of the fable “Vaska listens, yes there is”: you can “let off steam” in a non-binding Brussels consultation format, and in the meantime we will ” under the guise” to expand further.
But instead of Russia “getting used” to the growing threat from a “purely defensive” alliance (“defensive myth” in all seriousness sounds from different countries even after Yugoslavia, Iraq, then everywhere), NATO members inevitably ran into a “wall”. Everything, a dead end, then Moscow.
I understand that the polyphony of NATO politicians on the topic of “aggression against Ukraine” will continue, because I really want to discuss an unrealistic problem, and virtual stories on the topic “remove the fears that we invented for ourselves.”
However, the leadership of Russia and our negotiators said: it is necessary to speak on our existing proposals, and to speak in detail, there is no goal and achievement of achieving mutual security.
Mantras about deterring the Russian aggression of this world for the media, since there is no way. Nodiplomacy is done by professionals, not propagandists. America has them, Russia has them, and they were detained so that they would eventually be revealed in a common language, as it was before more than once. There is still a chance.
Source: Konstantin Kosachev’s page Facebook.