... and can be subject to objective verification.
This immutable truth struggles to make it through to the Western elites, consumed as they are with the exceptionalism complex. As I mentioned earlier in this article, right after the talks between Vladimir Putin and Joseph Biden, EU and NATO officials rushed to announce that nothing has changed in the way they treat Russia. Moreover, they are ready to see their relations with Moscow deteriorate further, they claimed.
Moreover, it is an aggressive Russophobic minority that increasingly sets the EU’s ...
... security threat and feel they could be next on the list — unsurprisingly, as some United Russia MPs now want to prosecute Gorbachev for letting them secede from the Soviet Union. Finally, Europe needs not only Ukraine; it would like to work with Russia, too. But Putin’s uncompromising, expansive power politics will lose him all trust, indispensable for any cooperation.
America will suffer, because, despite sustained efforts to forge a partnership with Russia, it will have to fight against it once again....
... minor risks has been Washington and Brussels’ peace politics. Obama was elected on the promise of ‘ending wars, not starting them’, and he dreads the demon of Bush Jr; he wants to keep to that. His policy of a ‘reset’ with Russia has yielded no results and, to Putin, has further signalled America’s weak benevolence. The EU is to a large extent dependent on Russian energy, and has been a marginal foreign policy actor, struggling to forge a common policy — also no game for him.
But it seems that ...
