Obsession with Russia

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Stockholm with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.

We discussed mainly, of course, the Ukrainian agenda.

Now she is the main supplier of completely unpredictable and low-sighted news.

It seems that people far from rationality started a game with matches in a powder store there, trying to demonstrate all their talents in terms of recklessness.

If we talk about the Russian side, the main message was the systemic "ignoring of Russia's legitimate concerns."

It was from this absolute ignorance that the vile story of the Kiev "Maidan" began, the consequences of which are now plaguing.

Ukraine is a pawn in a big game, through which NATO deployed its forces in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders, but at the same time only the actions and behavior of Russia are discussed.

Now let's imagine for a second what it would have been if, before the coup, which opened the way for a lot of blood and conflict situations, they had not ignored the “legitimate concerns of Russia,” if they had not tried to spin the flywheel of their game at any cost, using cheating tactics. But Russia was consistently and defiantly ignored even before the Ukrainian events. One can also recall the "exercises" for the deployment of such a geopolitical game in Georgia, which resulted in the bloody events in South Ossetia in 2008. Well, exactly like today's Ukraine, only on a slightly smaller and less extreme scale. Russia was ignored on the issue of NATO expansion and missile defense. Now they are trying to prove that we cannot have our own voice at all, our interests directly related to security.

Secretary of State Blinken scares Russia that it will "pay a substantial price" if the conflict in Ukraine escalates. True, it turns out that the responsibility for everything that happens lies solely with our country, and the other side is not in business. Bribes are smooth from Ukraine, which gets away with any provocations. Her puppeteers, too, are not responsible for anything, but are only ready to put pressure on Russia, which was put in such a situation and presented the whole thing in such a way that in any development of events she will be to blame. Nice thing.

For the meeting between Lavrov and Blinken, the latter's deputy, the legendary Victoria Nuland, who at one time heroically fed the Kiev "Maidan" with her statements, arrived in time with her statements. She does not hide the fact that she dreams of seeing something similar in Russia. Nuland baked her special "cookies" and threatens with new sanctions. Of course, "hellish" - after all, practically from there the voice sounds. Raise her eyelids. A chorus of Eurovoices also joined. Such is the political and informational pressure.

“Our Western colleagues have simply absolutely lost the culture of dialogue, the culture of diplomatic negotiations and reaching consensus,” the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry commented on all these attacks and threats.

This is probably what happens if you constantly ignore any other opinion, hear only yourself and know how to communicate exclusively in a didactic, monologue format, including an extensive arsenal of threats and blackmail.

Then, as unnecessary, all other functions and abilities atrophy.

Today's Ukraine is both a figure in the US chess game and a battering weapon for Russia.

Conclusions were drawn from this spring's exacerbation of this year, which followed a scenario similar to the current one, and NATO began to demonstrate its presence near the Russian borders ahead of time. In politics, the laws of the series also apply, when a new season is definitely needed, if an intrigue has formed that opens up a wide range of opportunities. And yes, those spring provocations were only paid for with the lives of Donbass residents, including children. For the organizers of the current big game, this is not even a broken penny. All world democracies laugh at Dostoevsky for his reasoning about a child's tears ...

Now the stakes are heightened to the limit, the situation is rocked by hysteria about an insidious Russia, ready to attack.

This is how Blinken's "soft power" comes to mind, which now looks like dancing on the edge of a world catastrophe.

Ukraine is a kind of drone operated by American operators.

The inhabitants of the country are perceived exclusively as mechanisms in this unit: they do not have the right to vote, their role is only in the execution of commands.

And all in order to impose on Russia, drive it into a corner, put the check and force it to capitulate.

Ukraine has the status of anti-Russia and is perceived as an analogue of Soviet perestroika. She dreams that she will launch and spread destructive, decay processes. By itself, this country is not interesting to anyone in the West, but as a bridgehead closest to Russia is another matter. The main thing is that she is not at all sorry. This is the very pawn that can be easily sacrificed. So the Kiev regime, led by Zelensky, is galloping across the squares of the chessboard. Hands are untied, reason is darkened, and as a doping phrase: "The West will help us."

The West, on the other hand, respects analogies and historical rhymes, conjures over them and tries to put a new puzzle in its favor. Therefore, in spite of the Olympics in Sochi, a Kiev "Maidan" was organized with great potential to promote the conflict (earlier, on the opening day of the Beijing Olympics, Saakashvili's troops were sent to South Ossetia). The winter games in China are approaching, and against this background, a provocation can achieve multiple effects: it will hit Russia, neutralize a sports festival in the Middle Kingdom, and tie up Europe, imposing a confrontation with our country. Isn't it "soft power"? ..

It is possible that from Ukraine, which is not sorry, they are going to make a new Afghan for Russia, so that it is completely bogged down in the conflict, and they themselves will throw brushwood into this fire: "Stingers" - excuse me, "Javelins" - and other weapons "to fighters for independence ”to supply, incite and inspire them in every way.

They will create a background, conduct a psychological attack, build a virtual reality of the demonization of our country through a system of information distorting mirrors.

"Soft power" is everything by someone else's hands.

At a meeting with Blinken, Sergei Lavrov said that an alternative to the current inertia to escalate the conflict could be "long-term security guarantees on the western borders of Russia."

Guarantees, of course, should not be in words and papers, otherwise their price is well known. For example, the Ukrainian President Yanukovych will not let you lie - he was also given many guarantees ... This is not a question of trust, which is not there. Gullibility can lead to the fact that Zelensky will simply crush Donbass the very next day, arrange a massacre, and the entire collective West will pretend that there was nothing and no one there - one continuous open field. Therefore, long-term guarantees are the withdrawal of NATO's military infrastructure to the previous, pre-maid borders, the cessation of the military development of Ukraine, which Russia has repeatedly said.

“I want it to be very clear: the transformation of our neighboring countries into a springboard for confrontation with Russia, the deployment of NATO forces in the immediate vicinity of strategically important areas for our security is categorically unacceptable,” Sergei Lavrov said in the same Stockholm at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers OSCE. Russia demands to take into account its interests. Don't ignore them. The Russian minister also recalled the situation of the 70s of the last century, when it was possible to come to “difficult compromises” and create an architecture of the security system in Europe. Will they be able to approach this now, or will Europe remain hostage to political adventurers, as well as strategists of geopolitical games with fire? So far, only Russia has been accused of aggressiveness and recklessness. And they don't want to hear anything else.

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