Ukraine kontrolleret af USA og Storbritannien - Rusland

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tir, 17 maj 2022 16:02 UTC

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Storbritanniens Premierminister Boris Johnson • USAs president Joe Biden • 24 marts 2022

London og Washington har udøvet deres kontrol over de ukrainske forhandlere med det formål at trække konflikten ud, og denne politik har ført til suspendering af fredsforhandlingerne mellem Moskva og Kiev, hævdede den russiske udenrigsminister Sergey Lavrov tirsdag.

Lavrov talte ved New Horizons uddannelsesmaraton og sagde, at Ukraine kan have truffet sin egen beslutning i Istanbul, da det kom med nogle 'acceptable principper for at nå aftaler' under forhandlinger med Rusland. Men ifølge ministeren blev disse ideer tilsyneladende ikke støttet af Vesten.

'Vi har information, der kommer gennem forskellige kanaler om, at Washington og især London 'leder' de ukrainske forhandlere og kontrollerer deres manøvrefrihed. De ønsker at trække konflikten ud, og det ser ud til, at jo længere tid det vil vare, jo mere skader de vil påføre russiske soldater.'

Lavrov said.Udenrigsministeren tvivler dog på, at 'at overføre samtalen til niveauet af Washington eller London' vil kunne ændre noget i forhold til fremskridt. 'Under alle omstændigheder har hverken London eller Washington eller Vesten som helhed fremsat nogen forslag,' sagde Lavrov.

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Lavrov cited remarks by the EU, UK and US officials who have said on multiple occasions, that Russia should not be allowed to win in the Ukrainian conflict including Ukraine. The West actually acknowledged:

"Ukraine is expendable in a hybrid total war against the Russian Federation. The war was declared by them. And not at all between Ukraine and Russia, but between the West and Russia."

Earlier on Tuesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko said that diplomatic dialogue between Moscow and Kiev had been completely suspended after Kiev withdrew from negotiations without providing any response to the latest Russian proposals.

A Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mikhail Podolyak, later confirmed that "after the Istanbul communiqué [in March], there have been no changes, no progress."

Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine's failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow's eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.

The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.

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One can hardly refer to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as an "offended liverwurst," considering that when Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andrey Melnik called him that, Scholz didn't appear offended at all, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.

The minister was referring to a series of exchanges between Kiev and Berlin over the Ukrainian government's refusal to welcome German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier for a state visit in April. Scholz responded by declining to come as well, and the Ukrainian ambassador resorted to name calling in retaliation.

Lavrov, when asked by a student of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations about the diplomatic spat during an educational event, said:

"His boorishness has long become notorious. Politicians in Germany who have kept their dignity have drawn attention to him on multiple occasions. Scholz was not offended by it, so the word 'offended' can be removed from this formula."

Lavrov assessed that, under the current government, "Germany relinquished the last traces of independence" from the US. He also said the same was true for most of the European nations, with the exception of France, where President Emmanuel Macron "is still talking about the strategic independence of the EU. I am certain they will not be allowed to have it," he added.

The EU is turning into an organization indistinguishable from NATO in terms of its US-determined goal, policies, and even membership, the Russian minister said, referring to the proposed inclusion of Sweden and Finland into the military bloc.

Ukrainian officials would continue to get away with insulting Europeans just as easily as they were getting away with harboring radical nationalists and open neo-Nazis in the ranks of their troops. But, ultimately the West considers Ukraine "expendable" as long as it serves its goals of undermining Russia.

Lavrov argued that Washington ramped up its confrontation with independent-thinking nations after China managed to "beat it" at its own game. Beijing became more successful than Washington by playing by the rules the US helped set in the form of global institutions like the World Bank or the World Trade Organization.

After failing to compete fair and square against China and other emerging economic powers, including Russia, the US now wants to change the rules themselves to maintain an unfair advantage and preserve the neocolonialist system it created, he argued.

"It cannot be stable for any prolonged period of time. Historically speaking, our cause is the good one."

Power has becomes more important than autonomy and independence. It defies reason.