Vitaly Portnikov: G7 wants to press and talk

23 April 2018, 21:39 | Policy
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Every day of a lack of real understanding between Moscow and the West makes the nature of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis more understandable for the world's leading countries.

Foreign Ministers of the G-7 countries turned out to be adherents in the matter of further relations with Moscow. Leaders of foreign ministries of the world's leading countries are confident of the need to continue sanctions against Russia, accuse it of destabilizing other countries, poisoning in Salisbury and other crimes.

But, at the same time, they are ready for a dialogue with Moscow - because they expect that their signal will be received correctly. What is an alternative to pressure - mutual understanding, normal relations, failure to destabilize, return to a safe world.

And this is the main mistake of the G-7 countries in relation to Russia. Moscow is convinced that the actions of the Group of Seven are a pressure that simply needs to be countered. And this confrontation will be the best response to any sanctions. What the West wants is not an equal relationship with Moscow, and its "subordination".

Another question is what is meant by equality in the Kremlin? And this question, in my opinion, is not very difficult to answer, given the experience of recent years. The Russian understanding of equality is the understanding of a bully who is sure that law enforcement agencies should not detain him for another rowdy. That he has the right to do whatever he likes. Moreover, when he "on the district". A "district" of the Russian rowdy - the entire former Soviet Union, and now the Middle East.

Of course, one can be upset with such a stubborn misunderstanding of reality. But let's leave this upsetting to the politicians of the "big seven".

Moscow's unwillingness to negotiate is also a guarantee that it will not be agreed at our expense.



And every day the lack of real mutual understanding between Moscow and the West has a tangible effect on the attitude of the leading countries of the world to Ukraine, to the true nature of the Russian-Ukrainian crisis.

Already the very fact that the head of the foreign policy department of our country was invited to the meeting of the G-7 foreign ministers Pavel Klimkin speaks about the change of this attitude of the West to Ukraine. And, by the way, to Russia. After all, such an invitation is also another signal of Russia. Only it is unlikely that Moscow is able to correctly decipher it.

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