Washington and its allies have expressed concern in recent months that Russia, which has gathered near Ukraine’s borders with tens of thousands of troops, is preparing to attack Ukraine. In the shadow of this threat, the West has embarked on diplomatic negotiations with Moscow, which is demanding a guarantee from the North Atlantic Alliance that it will never offer membership to Ukraine. Russia is asking the United States for the same guarantee. At the same time, according to Navalny, Russia is trying to give the impression that if the US does not agree, it will “do something”.
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“Instead of ignoring this nonsense, the United States is on the Putin agenda and is in a hurry to hold some sort of meetings,” said Navalny, who answered questions from the weekly in several letters from the prison. “The West has repeatedly fallen into Putin’s simple trap,” said the opposition leader.
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“And at the same time they say, ‘If you do something, we will impose severe sanctions.’ That’s exactly what Putin needs, because it can be reversed – if you don’t attack Ukraine, we won’t impose sanctions, “Navalnyj said. According to him, the West is showing Putin that if he is not strong enough towards Ukraine, he will not get a whip, but sugar.
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“Putin does not have to worry about the sanctions he has almost adopted now and his friends. The administration (President Joe) Biden first persuaded Congress to postpone them, and now to repeal them altogether, and offers Putin sugar,” Navalnyj thinks.
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Last year, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on several high-ranking Russian officials and companies for poisoning and the subsequent imprisonment of Navalny. However, according to the opposition leader, these sanctions are not sufficient. “We do not even turn a blind eye in Russia when we see the US adding to the sanctions lists unknown colonels and generals who have no money abroad and are simple executors of the Putin will,” Navalnyj said.
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