Will the world face a Cuban Missile Crisis II after Geneva?
In the United States, when assessing the past summit between the presidents of Russia and the United States, an ideological rather than a pragmatic approach dominates.
The chief researcher at the Institute of the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladimir Vasiliev, told Nezavisimaya Gazeta, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports this.
“The perception of this meeting in America is alarming. The ideological component in its assessment is too large. There is no pragmatic approach, which Sergei Lavrov spoke about in 2017 at a meeting with Donald Trump. This meeting reminds me of the negotiations between Nikita Khrushchev and John Kennedy, which took place in Vienna in 1961 and which also turned out to be burdened with ideological accusations. Then this ultimately led to the fact that ideology turned out to be more important than pragmatics,” the expert said.
In turn, the publication recalls that a year after the meeting between Khrushchev and Kennedy, the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and became the most serious test for Soviet-American relations.
“I would like to hope that this time nothing similar will happen and the “spirit of Geneva” will fade away later than the “spirit of Vienna,” NG sums up.
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