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borisbaran
Es gab keine Vereinbarungen, sondern höhstens vage Absichtserklärungen. Wenn Russland es damals tatsächlich gewollt hätte, hätten sie's schriftlich bekommen.
Von offizieller russischer Seite wurde immer wieder die westliche Einkreisungspolitik kritisch gesehen.
Lavrov, der russische Aussenminister, hat sich dazu vor wenigen Tagen ebenfalls geaeussert. Ihr im Westen, vor allem in den zahlreichen think tanks und im CIA, verfolgt eine Strategie, die insbesondere von Zbigniew Brzeziсski Vorstellungswelt getragen ist:
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Sergey Lavrov: We did not take the challenge to think about this reaction. We had no other choice. This choice, which we have finally made, was dictated by the entire history of our modern day life, international law, Russian national identity, our responsibility for the destinies of those Russians who found themselves abroad in a flash as a result of procedures, which did not correspond to international legal procedures. You know how the agreements were made in the Bialowieza forest, to which all the current supporters of international law gave a standing ovation. There were no questions about legitimacy of the events of those times.
As to sanctions – this is a path to deadlock. It seems that our western colleagues, who, if we look at the broader picture, have been creating conditions to “tear” Ukraine from Russia for years,when they understood that they were not right and they had made a mistake by taking actions which disrupt the agreements reached after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, they could not recognise this fact. A falsely understood feeling of pride prevented them from doing this. All the sanction reflexes, which we observe now, remind us of the aspiration to present their insult in as decent a form as possible.
I am not choosing my words right now, because I say this to my colleagues. In private talks they ask us to understand, to put ourselves in their shoes, because “the western community cannot accept such developments”, that “they understand us, but they must show a common position, when we are all in one team”. These words are from a past epoch, when there was a game between geopolitical strategic rivals, opponents and confronting parties. It was an “or-or” or “with us or against us” game. We refused this long ago. Unfortunately, that mentality is still not over in the minds of many politicians, who determine the position of the west at the current stage.
I am not saying that these sanctions are funny or we don’t care. These are unpleasant things. It is glaringly obvious that they attempt to focus these sanctions on personalities and target them to specific persons to bite in a nastier way. We are not fond of this, but we also feel no pain. We went through even tougher times.
Russia has a substantial history of relations with western partners in the post-Soviet epoch. They welcomed us in a democratic camp believing that we would “show servile obedience” and all would strictly adhere to all the rules formed by the West in this part of Christian civilisation. This is not a partnership, but rather the aspiration to grasp a geopolitical “meadow”, which showed up in the Ukrainian events – a fierce desire to involve Ukraine in the “western orbit” disregarding the cardinal interests of the Ukrainian economy, culture, nation, which is very complicated, multinational and multicultural. The wish to separate Ukraine and Russia is behind all these events. Remember the words of Zbigniew Brzeziсski that Russia is a power with Ukraine and something less without Ukraine.
In this regard, see the statement by the US President, Barack Obama, about Russia as a regional power and that we will have to pay for everything that has offended our ears. We have not paid with any human life, when we responded to the legal expression of will of the Crimean people. The price, which the Americans paid for their “games”, is measured in thousands of human lives – Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yugoslavia. Everything has its own price, but it is different.
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