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I wonder when Russia will stop pretending that EU does not exist and will start talking to it like to equal and start negotiating with EU, not with remote USA w
by general1465 10mo ago
I wonder when Russia will stop pretending that EU does not exist and will start talking to it like to equal and start negotiating with EU, not with remote USA which are trying to retreat from conflict.
Maybe Russia should recognize that EU has its own sphere of influence and Russia should respect it - so when is Russia going to demilitarize Kaliningrad, because having a military base so deep in EU is unacceptable?
- trueismywork 10mo ago> I wonder when Russia will stop pretending that EU does not exist and will start talking to it like to equal and start negotiating with EU. When EU has the military might to stop Russian in Ukraine on its own.
- general1465 10mo agoEuropean part of NATO without USA does have this capability. However my point is that EU is bankrolling Ukraine and keeping it in the fight see 90 Billion EUR loan to Ukraine few days ago. Pretending that Russia does not need to negotiate with EU because EU does not have military branch yet is just being arrogant and stupid.
- drysine 10mo agoThe problem is that EU doesn't want to negotiate with Russia, it just makes demands as if it has won on the battlefield.
- drysine 10mo agoRussia did all of that, the problem is that the EU (just like the US) has never respected Russian interests and expanded its own sphere of influence as far as it could. Until Russia thought that enough is enough.
- tim333 10mo agoRussia and the EU are different kinds of systems. Russia has an army and a history of invading countries. The EU doesn't have an army and promotes free trade and democracy.
- thisislife2 10mo agoEU is irrelevant for Russia because, for it, the Ukraine conflict is a proxy war between Russia and NATO. That is why it only seriously engages with the western superpowers (USA, UK, France) and the emerging powers (Germany and Turkey) in NATO on Ukraine. It also helps that the European superpowers dictate their will on EU. > so when is Russia going to demilitarize Kaliningrad, because having a military base so deep in EU is unacceptable? Russia has been willing to demilitarise Kaliningrad, and only determined not to do so because of NATO's eastward expansion - "We want to demilitarize Kaliningrad, but (we) will have to deploy even more troops there once Poland becomes a member of NATO." - Aleksandr Shokhin (Russian Duma’s First-Deputy Chairman). (It also doesn't help when NATO members claim publicly that unless Kaliningrad is demilitarised, NATO cannot have dominance in that region ( https://www.sb.by/en/poland-demands-demilitarisation-of-kaliningrad.html https://www.sb.by/en/poland-demands-demilitarisation-of-kali... ) - that should really convince Putin to hurry up with the demilitarisation! In fact, after Sweden and Finland joined NATO too, Russia has expanded its military presence there greatly too ( https://news.err.ee/1609274853/lithuanian-intelligence-russia-preparing-for-long-confrontation-with-nato https://news.err.ee/1609274853/lithuanian-intelligence-russi... ).
- artem2471 10mo agoPro Lukashenko Belarus website on HN is wild.