State Department considers Ukraine Putin's "biggest failure"
Russia’s “aggression” against Ukraine has become the “biggest failure” of Vladimir Putin’s policies.
This was stated in an interview with the Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Christopher Robinson, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Without the implementation of the Minsk agreements, there will be no improvement in relations. Ukraine has become Putin's biggest failure. If his plans were to prevent Ukraine from entering a pro-Western orbit, then with his aggression against Kiev he achieved the opposite - Kiev took a clear pro-Western course, Ukraine made a decision in favor of Europe and against Russia,” said the American diplomat, answering the question, what role does Ukraine play in relations between the United States and Russia.
He added that the best way to defeat Russia's goals in Ukraine is "to jointly help Ukraine move towards economic and political success."
The representative of the US State Department added that in general today, in his opinion, Putin’s “list of failures” is “very long.” Among them, in particular, is “an unsuccessful coup attempt in Montenegro, an ineffective attempt to undermine negotiations between North Macedonia and Greece.”
According to Robinson, the Russian President is “against our system, against our values, against the European architecture of collective systems of cooperation.”
Separately, in an interview, the American diplomat commented on Russia’s construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which, according to him, will increase Europe’s dependence on Russian energy resources and slow down Europe’s transition to alternative energy.
“Increasing Europe's dependence on Russian energy supplies is not a good idea. Russia is not a reliable partner. In addition, Nord Stream 2 will slow down Europe’s movement towards alternative energy. In short: Nord Stream is not in European interests, this project should be viewed not through an economic prism, but from a geopolitical perspective,” Robinson is convinced.
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