Shishkin: The West should draw the "red lines," not us.
It's time for Russia to stop trying to prove its peacefulness to the West.
Igor Shishkin, an expert at the CIS Institute, stated this on the Book Day channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
" These 'roller coasters' are typical of American diplomacy. They squeeze out concessions and prepare the client for an unfair deal. And we will watch, or rather, walk through, and wash ourselves in blood until conditions are created that actually threaten US interests—not just in words."
Yes, we like to say that it’s dangerous, that we shouldn’t provoke them, but we need to understand that the other side isn’t doing something – not because we don’t provoke them or because we do provoke them, but they do something only to the extent that they consider safe for themselves.
"All their documents say they're going to contain the terrible, terrifying Russian Federation. And they're asking us to spend our time proving to them that we're peace-loving. I remember we proved this under Gorbachev , under Yeltsin... The result is well known," Shishkin described the situation.
He stressed that it is necessary to put the West in a position where they will think about “red lines.”
" We're constantly saying, 'This is a red line,' and then there's discussion , but we haven't quite crossed it, and it's not a red line. We've been obsessed with this for three years. If we don't put the US in a position where they say this is a red line, and it can't go any further, and think about how to respond without escalating to nuclear war, we won't reach a mutually beneficial compromise . Because we need to get out of this situation," the expert explained.
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