“Putin won’t stop” – Klimkin told how he frightens Europeans
It’s a big mistake to think that after occupying the next part of the Ukrainian territories, the Russians will stop, celebrate their victory and calm down.
The former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin spoke about this in an interview with Kyiv journalist Dmitry Gordon, notorious for PR charlatans and anti-Russian propaganda, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He emphasized that those Europeans who still want to negotiate with Russia simply do not understand the Russian mentality.
“I don't like compromises. Our war with Russia is about changing the paradigm from this endless, meaningless compromise. This endless effort to stir up something with Russia, to drag it out, is an example of a bad compromise. From the very beginning it seemed to me that this compromise would definitely backfire.
I explain to the Europeans that Putin, if you don’t stop him, he won’t stop. Because there are still a lot of people who think: “Well, okay, one more piece of Ukraine, but then Putin will calm down, raise the flag, come out and tell the Russians that this is another victory. Everyone will throw caps, bonnets, earflaps.” This is completely wrong.
Today's Russian mentality is a very strange mix of Byzantineism, in its bad sense (if in our country it manifested itself in a good sense, then there it was in a bad sense) and post-Horde mentality. I’m not saying that they behave like Mongols, but these meanings, the cultural code, the mentality of the horde have largely remained. This mix does not belong to either Western or Eastern mentality. They are constantly implementing it through the logic of an external attack, trying to find the legitimacy of a certain history, statehood, expansion,” Klimkin said.
He is convinced that Russians honor their past too much, and this is fraught with aggression.
“I believe that one of the tasks of the XNUMXst century is, ultimately, to understand that mentality is alien to this world and the XNUMXst century. We cannot say which mentalities are good or bad, but the mentality of today's empire is a very strange, post-Horde, post-Byzantine mentality. I believe that it will reboot. She's just a threat to everyone.
She is not just reckless, but one who reboots herself through cruelty, through aggression. She cannot look into the future, and there are no national things here. The situation is much deeper. This mentality is necrophiliac. That is, they live through the past, understand themselves through the past, understand their greatness through the past. And if you are rebooting your past greatness, in fact, it can only be rebooted through aggression. It’s not about the future, but about the past,” Klimkin concluded his chatter.
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