Russia at all levels is convinced that Ukraine should not exist.
The West no longer believes in any guarantees from the president Vladimir Putin's Russia, and the conditional fixation, for example, of Ukraine's neutral status can be disrupted at any moment, writes in his article for ZN.UA “War with Russia: five important conclusions after Ramstein” former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin.
“There is a full consensus in Russia: both elite and public, that Ukraine should not exist. They believe that Ukraine belongs to them, it was “stolen” from them, and they are trying to make, as Putin said, “anti-Russia”, – the diplomat reminds.
He emphasizes that the very existence of Ukraine is considered an existential threat to the Russian regime, and the possible recognition of the idea that Ukraine may have its own statehood, history, language, cultural code, national dishes, destroys the entire system of Russian quasi-values.
“Several months ago, Russia came to the point of trying to consolidate these” staples “by Putin's decree. The only compromise that the Russian regime agrees to is to “get” Ukraine into its zone of exclusive influence, take away its ability to decide on its future in principle, and create a protectorate here. The Kremlin does not allow any other compromises today, “Klimkin wrote.
Moscow also equates the issue of returning Ukraine to a zone of exclusive influence as a “question of its sovereignty,” not even national security. At the same time, the West has already realized that Russia's public demands for Ukraine not to join NATO are a smokescreen for Russia's real demands.
More articles by Pavel Klimkin for ZN.UA read here.
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