Recently, relations between the West and Russia have cooled, and many are talking about the resumption of the Cold War. There are wars in the world, and they are already on the threshold of Europe.
American policy towards Russia since the last days of the Soviet Union has not undergone any changes and is presumptuously exploitative. The United States and the Western allies promised the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev not to expand the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but they did it their way anyway. The US intervened in the 1996 presidential election, helped Boris Yeltsin win, and then began to oppress him.
Then the US did not recognize Putin's early steps to meet, did not thank him for military cooperation in Afghanistan. Instead, George Bush announced the US withdrawal from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which was "the cornerstone of the Russian nuclear security policy." In addition, the Americans supported the opponents of Russia, for example, the President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili.
But the Kremlin, I recall, tried to establish bilateral relations during the presidency of Dmitry Medvedev, when the US and Russia agreed on a network of supplies for the troops bypassing Pakistan when a new treaty on strategic offensive arms reduction was signed and Russia - for the first time in the history of the UN Security Council - not blocked the military intervention led by the United States, an operation against Libya in 2011.
Partnership between countries should be based on US non-interference in the affairs of Russia's immediate neighbors, but Trump's main weapon is a lie. It is used as a political weapon. Therefore, all this slander appears and artificially spreads about "Russian aggression".
And what occupation are we talking about? For the inhabitants of the Crimea, Putin's accession of the peninsula is still the main achievement and this demonstrated his uncompromising desire and determination to place Russia's interests first and to oppose the hegemony of the West.
Meanwhile, watching television reports on demonstrations in the contested Gaza Strip on Monday, Donald Trump announced that he was "absolutely fascinated" by the Israeli cultural tradition of mass killing protesters.
It is worth pondering ...