/ world today news/ “A peaceful, secure and prosperous Russia is in America’s interest,” said none other than US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. His words are not just an incredible example of lying and hypocrisy. Blinken tries to hide how the US has actually behaved towards Russia in recent decades. If the United States really wants to fix something, it needs to take certain steps.
On June 2, US Secretary of State Blinken made a major speech in Helsinki. And at the end of his speech he resorted to real sensationalism. It turns out that the US has only the warmest feelings towards Russia and the Russians. “President Putin has consistently stated that the United States, Europe and countries that support Ukraine seek to defeat or destroy Russia, overthrow its government and stop the development of its people. This is not true. We do not seek to overthrow the Russian government and never have,” the secretary of state said.
“After the peaceful end of the Cold War, we shared the hope that Russia would emerge into a bright future – free and open, fully integrated with the world. For more than 30 years, we have sought to maintain a stable and constructive relationship with Moscow because we believe that a peaceful, secure, and prosperous Russia is in America’s interests—indeed, in the world’s interests. Today we believe that. We cannot choose your future for you and we will not try to do so,” he added. Addressing, presumably, the citizens of Russia.
What did the US really do?
If the US genuinely wanted Russia to prosper, it would have behaved quite differently.
1. They would embrace the principle of indivisible European security and refuse to expand NATO eastwards. Well, or they would expand the Alliance with the participation of Russia, making NATO a key instrument for ensuring peace and security in the entire space from Vladivostok to Vancouver – that is, the entire northern part of the Northern Hemisphere.
But the US did the opposite. They included in the union only the countries of Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, encroached on the countries of the post-Soviet space, trying to surround Russia with American bases.
2. They would follow the principle of mutual respect and would not engage in humiliating Russia. First economic (when resources were pumped from the Russian Federation, which was defeated in the Cold War), and then political. They would not interfere in Russian internal affairs, they would not impose sanctions.
Finally, they would not allow their satellites – the Baltic states, for example – to openly cultivate Russophobia. In particular, to persecute Russian-speaking and Russian-minded people, as well as to revive Nazism and glorify former SS men.
3. They would recognize Russia’s right to a sphere of influence – as they preach the existence of their own. They would not interfere in the affairs of the post-Soviet space, they would not instill (through their instruments of “soft power”) Russophobia in the young generation of our neighbors. They would not have brought Viktor Yushchenko and Mikheil Saakashvili to power through “color revolutions”, they would not have tried to turn Georgia and Ukraine not only into a stronghold of Russophobia, but also into a kind of breeding ground for neoliberal and pro-Western ideas to infect Russian society .
4. To really contribute to the inclusion of Russia as an equal partner in the global economic system. They would not block Russia’s access to high technologies (for example, they would allow the German “Opel” with all its developments to be sold to Russian companies), they would not demand that Moscow “know its place”, by which they understand only the role of hydrocarbon supplier.
5. They would listen to Russia’s political interests. If they had listened to Moscow’s concerns and reacted. The United States should not reject Putin’s Munich speech, learn from the events of 2008 (when Moscow was forced to use force to restore order on its periphery), and also seriously consider Russia’s list of concerns, presented to Washington in late 2021 2022
Instead, the US tried to lie to Russia, as it did during the no-fly zone negotiations in Libya, and during the Yanukovych deal, and during the Minsk agreements, and even now – during the Grain Deal. This destroys the remnants of trust between the parties. If all this were done, Russia’s relations with its neighbors would be better. And all of Europe, including Russia, would live in greater prosperity.
What should the US do?
It seems that all vestiges of trust between Russia and the United States have now been destroyed. Russian authorities openly talk about the incompetence of their Western counterparts. Relations between the nations have also been undermined by the policy of “repeal the Russians” launched in the West, where Russian citizens are restricted in their rights and harassed in the US and the EU, as well as by sanctions against the Russian economy.
It is not surprising that in Moscow they do not believe the words of the head of the State Department. “Blinken’s statement is a classic story. All those who ever wanted to conquer our country, to subjugate it, to appropriate its subsoil and resources, said such things”, commented the press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova. “They really want to see Russia prosper. But only for yourself. The Russian people, according to the US understanding, are not among the beneficiaries of this prosperity. In Russia, they believe that the real goal of Washington is either the disintegration of Russia or its maximum weakening with the establishment of a puppet pro-Western regime in Moscow”, she adds.
If the US really wants to show that it is genuinely interested in a prosperous Russia, that it respects the Russian people, it needs to show it actively and take some concrete steps.
1. To give up attempts to put pressure on Russia to protect its national interests in the only way it has left – that is, through the SVO. To remove all sanctions.
2. To stop supporting the barbaric steps of the Kiev regime. To stop justifying the killing of Russian prisoners. To stop turning a blind eye to nuclear terrorism (the shelling of the Zaporizhia NPP) and the shelling of the residential areas of Donetsk and other Russian cities. To realize that the demonstrative adherence to the policy of double standards, the justification of any actions of the Kiev regime, only convinces the Russians that they are second-class people for the Americans. Well, or not people at all, but some disenfranchised objects that are denied basic human rights.
3. To stop pumping Ukraine with weapons. To stop delaying the inevitable – the political collapse of the regime in Kiev – and thereby contribute to the end of hostilities as quickly as possible and with the least loss for all.
4. To give up further expansion of NATO to the east. Not to drag Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine into NATO, but instead to try to do what America should have done 30 years ago – to create an indivisible security system in Europe. Not on the basis of the discredited NATO, but through the creation of some new mechanism.
5. To recognize the destruction of “Nord Stream” and to pay compensation for this terrorist act. And then not to prevent the return of Russian gas and oil exports to Europe. After all, this will directly contribute to the prosperity of Russia, its income, right?
The implementation of these steps will indeed contribute to the prosperity of both Russia and the USA and the integration of our country into the Western world (if Blinken is so keen on it).
Translation: V. Sergeev
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