The West is ready to make peace with Russia if it returns to Yeltsin’s conciliatory policy
Western countries do not want to discuss with Moscow the main issue, which concerns the flaws in the overall security system of Europe.
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German political scientist Alexander Rahr stated this in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, answering the question whether the West is able to hear the Russian point of view?
“No, and it’s scary. People in the West have learned to listen to other points of view. They are convinced that everything that comes from Russia is necessarily propaganda. The arguments that Russia makes should not be taken seriously, just like Russian ideas. As a result, the West offers Russia to make peace, but only on the condition that Moscow admits the mistakes it allegedly made and behaves the same way it behaved in the 90s. And, of course, the West does not want to discuss with Russia the main issue that needed to be discussed over the past ten years since Putin’s speech at the Munich Conference in 2007 - about the flaws in the common security system of Europe,” the expert emphasized.
At the same time, the publication’s interlocutor admits that it is no longer possible to imagine that the entire system of world order would be built only on the two Western pillars – NATO and the European Union.
“And Russia was offered some kind of secondary status, at best - an associate member of the European Union or a place at a round table with all NATO members within the framework of the Russia-NATO Council, where nothing is decided, and Moscow is constantly explained the point of view of the West and is not heard counter arguments. But you can’t build a safe Europe that way,” Rahr is convinced. – To my great chagrin and disappointment, neither Germany nor Europe is able to start a frank, objective conversation about how to adjust the current security system so that the largest country in Europe on the European continent, Russia, has the same security guarantees as other European countries "
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