The North Atlantic Alliance has been called an uncoordinated cacophony
Russia is slowly but surely making it clear to the West that it does not intend to endure unwarranted attacks, Russophobia, and attempts to speak from power. This is how Russian political analysts assessed the démarche of the Russian Foreign Ministry in relation to NATO structures operating in Moscow.
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One One of the first steps on this journey was the Foreign Ministry's response to the Czechs' accusation that the Russian “Petrovs and Boshirovs” blew up an ammunition depot in Vrbetica, Czech Republic, 7 years ago. The answer to the unjustified expulsion of several of our diplomats from Prague was that now there is probably no one at the Czech diplomatic mission in Moscow to seal the diplomatic mail. What we fought for, we came across.
And here is another good answer. After NATO decided to reduce the Russian mission to the Alliance by 8 people (they did not even decide to formulate reasons), Russia completely closed the mission and at the same time called on NATO representatives to leave Moscow before November 1
Everything used to be different. On several occasions, I happened to accompany the Russian Chiefs of Staff in the field of journalism on my way to Brussels, where the NATO-Russia Council met at the Alliance's headquarters. All this was, of course, before Crimea 2014. Were these contacts useful? Maybe it was. Consent, it is better for the military to sit at a negotiating table than when they look at each other through binoculars.
The West was the initiator of the severance of all contacts between the army. The military segment of the Russia-NATO Council has not been in operation for 7 years. And so NATO launched the last break in military contacts.
Why today? Perhaps this is because the United States-NATO mission in Afghanistan has ended infamously, and now the Alliance no longer needs to organize an “air bridge” to supply its group over our territory.
What if NATO members need to contact us again? For example, if their spy plane accidentally flies into our airspace and needs to prevent a dangerous incident with someone's coffin? In this case, the Alliance was asked to contact our Ambassador to Brussels. Wittily.
Leading Russian political scientists commented on the “traffic jam” about the way Russia and NATO interacted. For example, the well-known political scientist Yevgeny Satanovsky wrote on his Telegram channel: “You can blame as many of our bosses as you want, for everything that can now happen between us (Russia and NATO – MK), they will blame. It won't. Russia responds to all provocations addressed to itself (okay, not to everything, but to almost everything), but does so strictly proportionally, no more than at the level of another prank (it is more polite to call these outrageous language not a turn), and only in response as it is called, in a gentlemanly way. And in vain. In a fight, it is not the one who wins, who follows all the rules, especially when it comes to a fight without rules, but the one who will face the enemy faster and more agilely. And so that he could not get up and answer him – there would be nothing for him to get up or answer. “
According to him, the démarche of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shows that” patience has been exhausted – diplomats so far “. “But when the army and politicians run out of it, then either the stick will go to the smithy or the mallet will go in half,” the expert wrote.
Senator Alexei Pushkov, on his Telegram channel, again justified Russia's harsh response to NATO actions as follows: “Stoltenberg's formula (Jens Stoltenberg – NATO Secretary General. . Today, Moscow has finally buried this pattern by suspending the work of our NATO mission in Brussels and stopping the work of the NATO Information Office in Moscow. “
According to him,” now the NATO leadership will not be able to imitate contacts in their absence. “
“Dialogue from a position of strength” with Russia was a bad idea at first. Only an equivalent dialogue is possible. In his absence, NATO is deprived of the possibility of dialogue as such, “he concluded.
Well-known publicist Julia Vityazeva commented on the German Foreign Ministry's regret over Russia's decision: “We have seen your” dialogues “. Endless “arias of dates” and sprinkling from empty to empty. Two is needed for tango. And you all tried to step on your feet and turn your back, “she left a comment on her telegram channel.
On the other hand, Russia refused contacts with NATO and simply refused an unnecessary mediator. What is the North Atlantic Alliance? It is an uncoordinated cacophony performed by musicians of various sizes directed by a conductor – the United States of America. And the Russian army did not cut off contact with the owner of the bloc – the Americans. Issues of prevention of incidents in the air and at sea are constantly discussed by the Chief of the Russian General Staff and the Chairman of the Corps of Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces. If necessary, the United States will provide the necessary information to its younger partners.