In a high profile interview with NTV, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned that his country was not going to be able to make the concessions demanded by the United States as conditions of ending the sanctions on the Russian economy.
Lavrov insisted his country is doing more than any other to try to keep the Ukraine ceasefire in place, and was trying to resolve the situation there, but that the US demands had little to nothing to do with Ukraine itself, and were about “changing Russia.”
The exact nature of the US demands were never stated by either the US or Lavrov, and Lavrov was critical of the US approach to diplomacy in general, saying US “imperial inertia” will eventually have to be reconsidered.
Previous US comments suggest that the Crimean Peninsula likely looms large in their demands. Crimea seceded from Ukraine earlier this year and gained accession into the Russian Federation. The US did not recognize this vote and has demanded that Russia return Crimea to Ukrainian government control.
The US is not interested in lifting the sanctions which is why they make untenable demands. This is what happens when you put amateurs in charge of International relations and diplomatic interactions.
Not only amateurs but people ridden by their inner devils generated by watching Disney movies.
Being ruled by the corporate rich — How sweet is such a no-burden and no-thought democracy
Putin with his $144 billion, the corporate rich of our Empire with their trillions and trillions, I’m sure they will finally work it out to their complete satisfaction.
To — curmudgeonvt
Why is it that your ideas and mine are always so diametrically opposed to each other?
They're not really…just different ways to the same result.
There was never a problem with the Crimea under Ukraine's control until Nato showed up and started to attempt to bring the Ukraine into the fold. Losing the Crimea was something that Russia could never let happen obviously. And now we're supposed to believe that Russia is the aggressor and needs to be sanctioned? Ha!
Obama is an anti russian hate promotor.
These sanctions will be there nominally forever, Cuba-like.
Maybe not as with Cuba because Russia is not going to be bullied as easily. And it's possible that within a few years the US will be asking for Russia to forgive and forget. The Russia/China bloc is going to be a force that the US/Nato may find itself needing to stay on good terms with in the future.
Also, remind me again why the US is in the loop in the first place?
The Empire demands obeisance and the knee from those who would oppose its machinations.
I saw a tv debate on russian tv with the representative of NATO. The russian journalist asked him what are the conditions in order to lift the sanctions.The answer is very significative : first Russia has to stop to deliver arms to the Donbass fighters and secondly Donbass fighters have to surender to Kiev.
The journalist asked him : what are the garanties that Kiev army will not torture them,kill them etc…
The answer was : the international community is the garant. I do not know wheter I must cry or laugh…
Kafka is back.