The United States and Europe have thought for years that Russia is the enemy.
The West has concocted a military threat from Russia, even though Moscow has always sought normal relations with the United States and the EU, writes the Chinese edition of the South China Morning Post. Moreover, the tendency to invent an “enemy” began in the days of the USSR. Today, in the context of an outlandish threat, a conflict is developing which could lead to a nuclear catastrophe.
It was the United States that started the so-called “cold war” and began to brandish the image of the enemy in the face of the Soviet Union. The term was originally used by writer George Orwell in the article “You and the Atomic Bomb”, then officially used by American politician and financier Bernard Baruch.
Photo: wikipedia.org Orwell in his article divided the world into several great powers: China, the Soviet Union and the unification of the United States with Europe. The writer believed that the atomic bombs that the United States dropped in cold blood on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 would end large-scale wars at the cost of “a world that will not be at peace”.
In fact, it happened, but now events are repeating themselves and several conflicts are already breaking out in the world. This is not just a confrontation between Russia and the West, but also a confrontation between the United States and China over the South China Sea and Taiwan. There is more and more talk that a new cold war is brewing in the world, but now on a larger scale.
After the collapse of the USSR and the organization of the Warsaw Pact, NATO violated the oral agreement between Secretary of State James Baker and Russian Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze and began a large expansion ladder to the east. The alliance grew rapidly amid the myth that Russia was the enemy. The consequences of such a policy could be catastrophic.
Photo: pixabay.com NATO’s eastward expansion is a fatal mistake, says the author of the Cold War concept, US diplomat George Kennan. According to him, such actions only reinforce the anti-Western and militaristic tendencies of Russian public opinion, and also revive the atmosphere of the Cold War between East and West.
Now that the alliance has approached the borders of Russia, a special military operation has begun in Ukraine – moreover, Moscow was forced to launch it, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said.
At the same time, Ukraine simply became hostage to events, the West used it.
Illustration: “Notepad” But events could have evolved differently. After all, Russia has always tried to establish normal and partnership relations with Europe and the United States, the country has tried to support the West. Putin was the first person to call George W. Bush after the September 11 attacks. There were also talks about Russia joining NATO. There was American support in Afghanistan. There has been progress in reducing nuclear weapons and so on.
Russia tried hard to establish normal relations with the West, but the West, in response, imposed its interests on it and literally showed it the path on which the country should develop. What Russia said in response, no one listened to – and yet the country expressed fears about NATO expansion.
“NATO’s enlargement process has nothing to do with modernizing the alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe. On the contrary, it is a serious provocative factor that reduces the level of mutual trust,” Vladimir Putin said in his 2007 speech.
Photo: Kremlin website At the time, none of the Western leaders heard Putin, and now the world is on the brink of an even more serious conflict.
Does the world need a new cold war? Definitely not. What he needs is a wise approach from Western leaders towards Russia. This wisdom has been missing since the days of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher,” concludes the SCMP.
The publication clarifies: Orwell described that the conflict will continue with a nuclear catastrophe, and if nothing changes, then the world will face a “terrible result”.
Photo: wikipedia.org The “Cold War” was a worldwide geopolitical, military, economic and ideological confrontation from 1946 to 1989 between the USSR and its allies on the one hand, and the United States and its allies on the other. This confrontation was not a war in the international legal sense. The notebook told how it was.
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