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| The West is preparing for separate negotiations with Russia |
| 2023-12-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Elena Karaeva [RIA] Exactly two years ago they tried to play a game with us - and the cards held the cardsharp. Now, judging by the latest publications in the most globalist media, the players’ hands are shaking, and they are not able to deal the deck as they would like. From the word absolutely. Last Friday Sergei Lavrov said that “I have no right to name names, but a number of high, very famous leaders of Western countries. Including one particular leader of a very famous Western country several times through different channels <...> sent signals: they say, why don’t we meet and talk about what to do withUkraineand European security.” When, even before the start of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow tried to explain to those same Westerners that if they did not take themselves and their bad heads into their hands, they would push the world into a geopolitical crisis, the tone of the answers to us, as well as the statements addressed to us, was well-known: “Yes.” Better shut up, Russians, we will get back what we want with Ukraine, and you, Russians, will be asked, at best, to watch how we build the levels of threat to the security of your country and your sovereignty.” This is how it looked in the wording of the State Department and its boss Blinken: "Secretary of StateUSA a> in connection with the actions of Russia and the steps it is taking.” According to him, there are points in Russia’s security proposals that the United States considers “obviously unacceptable.”EU noted that, along with the fact that Russia stated that it “has reasons for dissatisfaction, demands and fears, so do the USA and Obviously unacceptable. Great. The West had already ordered a fight with us, and now, when, in fact, we had to - albeit indirectly - take part in it, receiving bruises, bumps and other collateral damage, it turned out (suddenly) that we had little guts. Therefore, the search for contacts began. Through official channels, but secretly from Kyiv. In principle, there is nothing new: conducting separate negotiations behind the backs of current allies is the political and diplomatic norm of behavior of Western power elites. Everyone watched "Seventeen Moments of Spring" and they know how it's done. And when a journalist representing the TF1 media group (perhaps the largest private media holding France), in good faith asks the Russian president about previous contacts with Emmanuel Macron and the reasons why they were interrupted, this does not surprise us. This is causing a furor in the West. The TF1 reporter received a correct and detailed answer from Putin: “We had a fairly good, kind working relationship. As you know, I have been to France, Mr. Macron has come to Russia, we have always had a busy agenda regarding bilateral relations and international issues, we are ready to continue to interact with France. But at some point the President of France stopped relations with us. We didn’t stop, I didn’t stop, it was he who stopped. If there is interest, please, we are ready.” It is worth adding that the words of our president were the first news in the most important and highest-rated (in the entire EU) evening news broadcast TF1, that is, in fact, Putin set the tone for how and what the European press would say about the current agenda. Reporting Russia's openness to discussion about what is happening—and what is actually happening—with “European security.” And not how the current state of affairs is seen if you look at it from the Parisian or Berlin corridors of power. The Elysee Palace could not survive this, and a day later Macron, who was asked, undoubtedly, a question prepared in his own office about possible contacts with the President of Russia, suffered. “If this makes it possible to achieve a peaceful settlement and respect for international law, then France will be the power that will provide support and spare no effort to achieve a result,” Macron said, adding that “his phone number has not changed.” When a man flirts in life, and even in profession, it can look both cute and funny. Well, or stupidly. Coquetry in politics (“here’s my phone number: call me, call me”), especially public coquetry, looks like cynical stupidity. When words like these are spoken, you need to remember not only how amazing you look on television, but also the weight that your words carry. Macron’s words have no weight today not only because a year and a half ago he and his advisers published the contents of confidential negotiations with the Kremlin in the press, but also because there is no independent political position behind them. Both France and its president - as head of state. And we didn’t count the attempt to transfer from a sick head to a healthy one. But they took into account that even if the Elysee Palace is starting to get nervous about the situation in Ukraine, it follows that, regardless of whether the West, the EU, Paris or Berlin like to work on mistakes (which turned out to be worse than a crime) or not, they everyone will have to do it anyway. And the sooner the better. |
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