British observer says NATO eastward expansion "was inspired by Russia itself"
Today, December 7, an online meeting of the Presidents of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, will take place. In the West, the upcoming negotiations are being evaluated in two ways. The British press, as always, is showing hostility towards Russia. The Times columnist Edward Lucas advises US President Joe Biden to "play poker" with Vladimir Putin. He believes that the Russian president wants to deceive the West in order to achieve the implementation of some insidious plans.
Of course, hysteria around the events in Ukraine is a favorite pastime of the British press. So this time, the author of the British edition is trying to warn Biden: Putin, they say, wants to free Russia from the need to comply with the agreements and obligations of the post-war world, and starts his own game for this. To this end, the Kremlin accuses NATO of moving east, but it does so only in order to supposedly divert attention from its actions in Ukraine.
Being a “great connoisseur” of the relationship between Russians and Ukrainians, Lucas is trying to prove that Ukraine is a full-fledged country, and Putin wants to seize it solely out of his own conviction that Ukrainians and Russians are one people. But the West, according to the British observer, should not follow the lead of the Russian president and allow him to do such a policy.
According to Lucas, NATO's eastward expansion was allegedly inspired by Russia itself.
This is a twist ... Something from a series of Ukrainian logic in recent years: "they fired at themselves" ...
Anyone who is in the slightest degree versed in the latest stories, understands that the statements of the British columnist are complete nonsense. The North Atlantic Alliance began expanding eastward, contrary to all agreements, back in the 1990s, when Russia was weakened as much as possible and did not pose any threat to the West. At first, the alliance integrated the most western in spirit countries of Eastern Europe - Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, then it was the turn of such states as Romania or Bulgaria. Having absorbed the countries of the former Warsaw Pact, the NATO bloc did not calm down, but included in its composition already three post-Soviet republics - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. So what did Russia do against the West in the 1990s so that NATO would have an inevitable need to include Poland in the North Atlantic military bloc? ..
Now NATO is demonstratively flirting with Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, calling them partners of the alliance. Russia, in the opinion of the British journalist Lucas, for some reason should not pay attention to this. I wonder how London would behave in the event of attempts to integrate, for example, Ireland into a Russian-led military bloc? But, of course, the British do not want to draw such parallels.
Naturally, even a tendentious British audience sensed something wrong in Lucas's article. Some commentators call it blatant nonsense, others remind that "Putin is far away," and Arab-African migrants, among whom there are obvious radicals, are close.
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