On Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said US-Russia relations are even worse now than during the Cold War.
Lavrov said that Moscow was prepared to normalize ties with Washington but warned that if the US would not participate in a respectful dialogue, “we would live in conditions of a ‘Cold War’ or worse.”
“During the Cold War, the tensions were flying high and risky crisis situations often emerged, but there was also a mutual respect,” he said. “It seems to me there is a deficit of it now.”
The Biden administration’s Russia policy has been extremely hostile. Earlier in April, the US imposed a wide array of sanctions against dozens of Russian officials and entities and expelled 10 Russian diplomats. Before that, the US hit other Russian officials with sanctions over the jailing of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.
The US has also been stoking tensions near Russia’s border by sending military equipment to Ukraine and affirming “unwavering support” for Kyiv. On Tuesday, the US deployed a Coast Guard Cutter to the Black Sea.
Throughout these hostile actions, Russia has called for better relations with the US. President Biden is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin sometime this summer, but a date hasn’t been set. Last month, Biden agreed in an interview that Putin is a “killer” who had “no soul.”
President Biden said he would work with Putin where he can on issues like arms control, and the two leaders quickly agreed to extend New START, the last nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia. But extending New START is the bare minimum. By taking such an aggressive approach, Biden makes further arms control less likely.
I’m tired of this wording. Nothing to do with actual relations between actual Americans and actual Russians. Politicians do NOT represent countries.
Sadly the MSM propaganda machine has convinced Americans to indeed have negative views on Russia.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/10/04/6-charts-on-how-russians-and-americans-see-each-other/
It is so important to remember that. But politicians rule us. There is nothing we can do as our politicians of all stripes talk to or about Russia in the most condescending tones, invent Russia’s “malign” behavior and make claims — such as Crimea being Ukrainian.
We all know — or should know — that what is stolen can and should be taken back. Western politicians still drone on and on about Crimea, and impose sanctions, knowing full well that Crimean Republic was taken from Russia in. 1954 for “administrative purposes”, that Ukraine ignored Crimean referendum legally conducted upon Ukrainian secession from Soviet Union, and that it finally was able to rejoin Russia following Kiev coup.
Such minor matters, that Crimea was Russian since nine-hundreds when Russian ruler Vladimir accepted Christianity as Russian religion — on Crimea, are irrelevant to droning political-media complex.
And what battles Russia went through in seventeen-hundreds to liberate Crimea from Ottoman Empire and its vassals and end slave trade that Europe profited from for centuries? One would think it would be of interest, I do not hear woke crowd ever getting interested in slavery industry on Crimea.
Or about British-French ill fated Crimean war in nineteen-hundreds to help Ottomans hold on Crimea. None of that history matters to Western bullhorns.
Now, people are not enemies, and that matters. But I do believe that piling on little myths about Russia’s “behavior” has an impact on public opinion. And for the last two decades we have heard consistently various accusations from Europe and US of Russia’s misdeeds — hardly matters that they are absurd. Just repetition “Russia, Russia, Russia” is the objective. It silences attempts of debunking even grossest of accusations.
Russia has no choice but to address this, and cannot afford itself the luxury of ignoring the matter anymore.
Russia made mistake by responding too little and too late to many absurdities hoping it was just a passing fad.
Once planes started flying over Barents sea border, Western troops exercising in Baltic, and Ukraine encouraged to dump Minsk Agreements — sending troops towards separatists regions, Russia had to respond.
And when it did — by moving military to its borders — the cry of indignation from the West went sky high in their joint volubility.
All Russia did was let it be known that it gets Western message loud and clear.
What can people do here? I have no idea. The truth remains, there is no cause for animosity among people whatsoever. But I am afraid that people have been bombarded with “malign Russian influence” stories for much too long to have any energy to resist being brainwashed.
On the Russian side — there are many, just like here — who know the political games of Western governments, and know that the animosity does not come from people. But they are realizing also that unless Russia takes steps to address the situation — it can only get worse.
It is a. dynamic that has its own vicious cycle that will be hard to stop.
But then, there is hope. Biden is now trying to get Iran to be our ally — presumably against Russia and China. Or at least to get Iran issue off his back.
It will be educational to watch this one evolve.
Just remember the words of the US installed Ukraine Dictator of the coup….. The Coup cost the US four billion dollars…. we are going to get rid of the Russian speaking subhuman scum infesting Eastern Ukraine….. those were the words of Genocide, so the three Eastern Oblasts Seceded from Ukraine. The Eastern Oblasts did what every Texas Governor has done when ever there has been a Democrat President threaten to secede, except in this case they have done it!
link, please
This is because the idiots in Washington think that they actually could win a war with Russia. here is a hint ……. no one wins a Nuclear war!
Associated Press Click bait copied and hyped by Dave DeCamp. This is relevant quote: “…we would live in conditions of a ‘Cold War’ or worse..”