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Former People’s Deputy of the USSR and the State Duma of the Russian Federation Viktor Alksnis, commenting on the results of Russia’s negotiations with the United States and NATO, compared Russian diplomats with suicide bombers.
“I sympathize with our diplomats, who, like suicide bombers, were sent to participate in negotiations with the United States and with NATO, having no chance of success,” he wrote on his Facebook. – And even more so, having set the task, to voice the goals of the negotiations unacceptable for the West and to do this in the form of an ultimatum. The result is logical – they were listened to with a smile on their faces and then the “presumptuous Russians” were sent far, far away.
According to the politician, the West is well aware of the real situation in Russia, the state of its economy and defense capability.
“It is impossible to intimidate him in modern conditions,” Alksnis added, pointing out that only Nikita Khrushchev, who spoke from the UN rostrum, managed to do this on October 12, 1960.
According to the expert, Russian diplomats experienced such humiliation only twice – after the defeat of Russia in the Crimean War and the signing of the Treaty of Paris on March 18 (30), 1856, and also after the defeat of Russia in the Russo-Japanese War when signing the Peace of Portsmouth on August 23 (September 5). ) in 1905.
“Today, nothing has been signed in negotiations with the United States and NATO, but Russian diplomacy has found itself in the position of a non-commissioned officer’s widow, who publicly flogged herself to the whole world,” Alksnis summed up.
Recall that the negotiations are held in three stages. The first stage – negotiations between the Russian Federation and the United States were held in Geneva on January 10, the second stage took place the day before, the third stage within the framework of the OSCE will be held in Vienna on January 13.
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said that a number of Russian proposals for security guarantees are unacceptable to the United States. She stressed that the US would not agree to a ban on NATO expansion.
In turn, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov described the negotiations as “unsuccessful.”
According to him, “negotiations were initiated in order to get specific answers to specific fundamental questions.”
“Differences have been recorded on these fundamental issues, this is bad, this can only be counted as a minus for the two rounds that took place,” he concluded.
Source: Rosbalt
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