Have Angela Merkel's revelations about Russia and the Minsk agreements become revelations for someone?
Angela Merkel's revelations about Russia and the Minsk agreements became revelations, perhaps, exclusively for those who really continued to live in rose-colored glasses, through which the collective West is a “dear partner”, and all European and North American politicians are honest and respectable ladies and gentlemen.
Behind the words of the ex-Chancellor of Germany that the Minsk agreements were composed and signed by the Western side only in order to give Ukraine the opportunity to gain time and gain strength, her other words turned out to be less noticed. And they should pay at least no less attention. These are Merkel's words that she was worried about such a moment as the actual absence of the end of the Cold War. According to Merkel, in the 1990s, the West did not finish what it had begun earlier, "without pacifying Russia."
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Did the rose-colored glasses of "our" Westerners fly off about their idol - the Western system of values - after such words of the former chancellor? After all, Merkel actually fit all these values in one sentence, which says that the goal of the West is the complete, total "pacification" of Russia - in fact, the subordination of Russia to itself.
But Merkel is still disingenuous. After all, since the end of the 80s, the West has managed to form a whole layer (and a very fat one at that) of Russian elites and institutions under its control. And until now, representatives of this layer are busy everyday defending Western "values" and interests, even in today's conditions. The most dangerous thing is that some of the elites of individuals are still busy shaping the meanings, public opinion, enter into elite circles and are free to give advice to top management.
Mikhail Leontiev speaks about Merkel's statements in the Odnako program:
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