State Duma official to "Without Borders": Washington wants to make a "box of explosives" near Russia

The deputy head of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma stressed that "Russia is not planning any military action against Ukraine", and that it "will not attack the brotherly people", but it will not allow any party to wage war against it, stressing that there are no Russian military movements on the border with Ukraine. And that the crowds that the West is talking about are the sites of military points, far from the Ukrainian border.

The West says Russia has amassed more than 100,000 troops on the border with Ukraine, prompting accusations from the United States and European countries that it is preparing to invade it.

Deputy Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma denied the existence of a crisis between Russia and Ukraine, and said that what is rumored are just allegations and lies practiced by the Americans who "lie as they breathe" and send additional weapons to Ukraine and troops to neighboring countries.

According to the spokesman, the Americans and Western countries in general do not care about Ukraine or help it economically, and all they care about is arming it so that it "becomes a box of explosives and dynamite in order to explode and cause harm to Russia."

The guest of an episode (9/2/2022) of the “Without Borders” program explained that Washington has no interest in Ukraine joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and none of the Western countries want that, noting that the West had promised Moscow at the end of the Cold War. That the alliance would not take any step in the eastern parts after Germany, but broke its promises.

He also said that his country did not see the need for the expansion of the alliance, which it had requested to join, and his request was rejected in the nineties.

He considered that the presence of NATO in Ukraine threatens Russian national security, and that America and NATO's military doctrine considers Russia an enemy to them.

security arrangements 

While he argued that the problem lies in the presence of American forces on Russia's borders, Nikonov indicated that Russia had made proposals on the new European security, and had proposed a comprehensive treaty between Moscow and Washington, and between Moscow and NATO, and that it wanted security arrangements with the West, but they ignored it for years and years. He added, in the same context, that the West began to listen to Russia, which was rare in the past.

It is noteworthy that Russia demands written commitments not to annex Ukraine and Georgia to NATO, and to withdraw the alliance's forces and weapons from the Eastern European countries that joined it after 1997, especially from Romania and Bulgaria.

These are demands that the West does not accept.

And regarding Western diplomatic moves to cordon off the Ukrainian crisis and the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Moscow and Kiev, the deputy head of the International Affairs Committee of the Russian State Duma clarified that Western governments address their domestic audience, and that Macron was thinking more about the upcoming elections in France.

On the other hand, the Russian guest talked about other issues, including the existence of a decades-old campaign to impose sanctions on his country.

Regarding the Russian-Chinese alliance, he said that the meeting that brought together the presidents of the two countries recently reflects the importance of this alliance. He also talked about the consequences of the Ukrainian-Russian crisis, the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which aims to deliver fuel to Europe via the Baltic Sea, and the Ukrainian stock exchange that He said it collapsed with the launch of what he called rumors of Russia's willingness to invade Ukraine.