The @WhiteHouse spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the United States had seen Russia's proposals for "security guarantees" from Washongton and NATO. According to her, there would be no negotiations on European security without European allies and partners, @Reuters reports. pic.twitter.com/5Purbwq1Jz
— Hromadske Int. (@Hromadske) December 17, 2021
Russia wants war.
Otherwise, they would have no problem with the US placing mid-range nukes on their border in a country that they overthrew with a color revolution.
RT:
The US “will not compromise” on NATO expansion, the White House reiterated on Friday, following proposals from Russia outlining how it believes Moscow and the West can deescalate ongoing tensions in the east of Europe.
“We have seen the Russian proposals. We are discussing them with our European allies and partners,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told journalists onboard Air Force One on Friday when asked about the Russian documents.
She added that the US won’t accept the idea of stopping NATO expansion in Europe, despite what Russia wants.
“We will not compromise the key principles on which European security is built, including that all countries have the right to decide their own future and form policy free from outside interference,” she said.
Moscow sees the expansion of NATO towards its border as a critical threat to its national security, based on the bloc’s confrontational stance toward Russia.
A verbal promise not to move the organisation to the east was given to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during negotiations on the reunification of Germany. Those assurances were memory-holed after the dissolution of the USSR. In 2017, declassified US documents backed up Moscow’s version of events.
Yeah, they probably should have gotten that one in writing, lol.
Russia does this whole nice guy thing with giving these totally reasonable offers only to be insulted and threatened even harder. I don’t know if it’s for the consumption of a domestic audience or a European one, but I guess it’s a useful performance.
Obviously, everyone in Russia knows the US is fixated on war, and if Russia comes out for the six millionth time and says “what about if instead of having a war, we didn’t have a war?”, every single time, the US is going to make this face:
For the record, Hitler did all of this “please, let’s not have a war” stuff too. But of course he lost the war, so no one remembers that.
Just so, if Russia wins this war, they could just say they did all of these peace offers, even if they hadn’t actually done that.
Anyway, yeah – I think the US is going to have a hard time getting Europe on board with this.
But it does look as though the decision has already been made in Washington, and now we’re just going through the motions.
To be clear, I’m not talking about a nuclear war, or a war inside of Russia proper, but just a proxy war in the Ukraine.
Of course, all of these US ISIS terrorists in Russia will start blowing things up inside of Russia as soon as it pops off, which is going to put Russia in a tough spot.
But I mean – this war is going to be run by the exact same people who swore Kabul would hold for six months.
Interesting times.
P.S.
Daily reminder that the Jew who runs Breitbart is shilling a war with Russia.
Jen Psaki actually said that the test of Putin’s respect for the territorial integrity of other nations would be whether or not he invaded Ukraine. This after he seized portions of Georgia and Ukraine already. Remember that this is the crowd that claimed Trump was weak on Russia. https://t.co/udYywpKsl0
— Joel Pollak (@joelpollak) December 9, 2021