FROM RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA:
I don't want to be anti-European. However, the current situation confirms the idea that many historians have expressed. Over the last 500 years (when the West was more or less formed in the form in which it has reached our days, naturally with some changes) all the tragedies of the world originated in Europe or happened thanks to European policy. Colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, A. Hitler.
For some reason, I didn't mention the Opium Wars, which cost China hundreds of millions of ruined souls and generations of insignificance.
In full:
S.V.Lavrov: We were not blind. Back in 2007, in Munich, Russian President V.V. Putin warned that although we work with NATO, the European Union, and the G7 (already a member of the G8), we should not be made naive and taken for those who do not understand or see anything. If we are equal, then let's work equally.
We continued. V.V. Putin patiently explained to each country and partner from the Western "camp" at numerous meetings what he meant when he spoke in Munich, if anyone there did not understand something.
Until the very last moment, we gave them a chance not to bring things to a hot conflict. In December 2021, we told them that you are "talking down" the Minsk agreements, creating threats to our security, let's sign the Treaty on European Security, where it will be ensured without drawing anyone into NATO. They ignored us.
Back in January 2022, I met with then US Secretary of State E. Blinken. He said that NATO is none of our business. They can only promise that the number of medium-range missiles they will deploy in Ukraine will be limited in a certain way. That's all. This is also hypocrisy, impunity, exceptionalism, superhumanity. And what did it all lead to?
