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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2021-070
Last week's posts at Moon of Alabama:
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Lavrov blasts NATO at presser today. He also said because the new Taliban government’s not recognized, it won’t have anyone attending the SCO Summit, which I find very unfortunate. The Russian transcript also provides yet another broadside aimed at the EU and its “consensus” policy along with some ridicule of Ukraine’s politicos, all of which will eventually join the linked English transcript. Here’s part of the blast at NATO:
“The West rejects our arguments, believes that it has the right to do what it pleases no matter what. A couple of years ago, Russia’s General Staff reached out to NATO with an official proposal to carry out a series of confidence building measures, including to agree on both NATO and us respecting a certain distance from the line of contact when holding military exercises. They squarely refused to agree on any such measures, just as they are unwilling to agree on the distance between our respective aircraft and ships. There is no lack of good will on our part, but NATO has been placing proposals of this kind on the back burner for the past two years. They firmly reject any military-to-military contacts that were suspended as a sort of a ‘punishment’ for what happened in Ukraine and Crimea. We are ready to engage in a conversation as long as it is professional rather than emotional and bordering on hysteria.
“We know where the migrants are coming from. They are arriving from Afghanistan and Iraq, the countries that our Western colleagues ‘stirred up.’ Today, they are speaking out, calling what Belarus is doing ‘hybrid warfare’ or using other terms.
“If illegal migration is such a concern for the West, it needs to calm down. Let me remind you that illegal migration first emerged as an urgent issue after NATO bombed Libya and destroyed Libyan statehood. From one of the most stable and prosperous countries, from a social perspective, Libya turned into a ‘black hole,’ serving as a conduit for terrorists, as well as arms and drug trafficking to Sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, it is through Libya that Al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups penetrated Sub-Saharan Africa and Sahel, and their offshoots are still operating there, terrifying people.
“At the same time, illegal migrants headed north through Libyan territory, now in ruins. When the European Union understood that this burden was too heavy for it to bear, it started calling on others to share the responsibility for these migrants. However, we have no intention of sharing any responsibility, since not only did we not support their action but we also condemned them. The West must understand that if it continues with its gambles like in Iraq and Libya or persists with other actions that have not yielded any positive results after 20 years of NATO’s presence in Afghanistan and have done nothing to ease tension, people will keep fleeing places that the West has sought to ‘make happy’ through its ‘democratic mission.'”
The following is the important passage regarding the EU taken from a machine translation from the Russian:
“I have no doubt that attempts to attack this gas pipeline will continue. The most zealously against it is an aggressive minority – the Baltic States, Poland (for obvious reasons) and several other EU countries, guided by their anti-Russian motives. Once again, I [am] convinced that they are trying to adjust the entire policy of the European Union to the views, tastes and manners of this Russophobic minority. Recently, the head of the EU foreign policy service, J. Borrell, made a speech and said that the European Union needs to talk to Russia with one voice, that Russia does not want to talk to the European Union, but wants to talk with individual member states, and that the European Union needs to ensure that all member states require Russia to talk only with the European Union. This is absolutely amazing logic, because not we, but the European Union destroyed the entire architecture of relations that existed between us and Brussels: summits, meetings of heads of government, almost twenty sectoral dialogues, four roadmaps for the formation of four common spaces, visa-free dialogue and much more. Everything is ruined by the European Union.
“In a situation where the EU does not want to restore any of this, we will not sit and wait for one of them to change their “tastes”. We will communicate with those who are ready for this. If you follow this logic, if you analyze it (no one should decide their own affairs with Russia, but only through the European Union) – it may be a hint that some people in Brussels want to impose a line of an aggressive minority in relation to Nord Stream 2 on everyone else.” [My Emphasis]
The bolded prose is why Lavrov’s convinced, and we should conclude that such views are being imposed by the Outlaw US Empire.
Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 15 2021 16:41 utc | 239
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