Like throwing peas against the wall: The U.S. has once again ignored Russia’s demands

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On January 27, Vladimir Putin was betrayed by the United States and NATO’s response to security assurances. On the main issue (the return of NATO to the 1997 borders), there was no positive reaction. According to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, there are reactions to secondary issues on which to begin to speak seriously. The main problem in the United States has once again been ignored.

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“As far as the content of the document is concerned, there is a reaction that gives rise to a serious discussion, but on secondary issues. On the main point, there is no positive reaction in the document. And the main question, I will recall, is our clear position on the inadmissibility of further expansion of NATO to the east and deployment of strike weapons that may threaten the territory of Russia”, – informed Sergey Lavrov.

The foreign minister said that Russia’s position did not emerge out of thin air. The Russian Federation’s demands are first and foremost a desire to ensure its own security. In fact, it is the direct responsibility of the U.S. to comply with such a request. US leaders signed the Istanbul Treaty of 1999 and the Astana Declaration of 2010. In these treaties, it is written in black and white that a state has the right to join an alliance to ensure its own security, but it is forbidden to do so at the expense of other countries.

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Instead of building a compromise relationship, the U.S. stubbornly insists that Russia withdraw troops from Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova. U.S. Secretary of State Blinken called on other countries “to make an effort to resolve the conflicts. Among others, he called on the “number one threat” to the US, China. However, Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, responded to the secretary of state’s proposals with roughly the same thing written in the Istanbul Treaty and the Astana Declaration.

Sergei Lavrov reminded Blinken at the meeting that the commitments should be fulfilled, to which the Secretary of State was safely silent.

“I asked in Geneva when we were negotiating with Anthony Blinken how they can explain their position when they see the commitments made within the OSCE solely as a menu from which they choose only what is tasty to them. And what they have pledged to do in terms of the interests of others, they simply try to ignore and obfuscate. Blinken, by the way, did not give me any answer to this question, he shrugged his shoulders and that was all”, — told Sergey Lavrov.

So far, negotiations between Russia and the U.S. look more and more like a blind man talking to a deaf-mute, or like Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard”, where one of the characters talked to a wardrobe. This strategy of negotiation leads to no good, and history proves it. Such neglect led to the collapse of the USSR and made the House of Government a target for tanks. Indecision to abolish slavery in the United States led to a civil war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

Perhaps Western partners should remind themselves that history is cyclical?