The situation in Ukraine has held relations between the United States, Europe, and Russia hostage since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.
"Pushing Russia away from Europe," Macron said, "Is a great mistake," adding that Europe must rethink the relationship.
"Since the fall of the Berlin Wall," he continued, "We have established a relationship with Russia based on mistrust." Russia, Macron declared, "Is in Europe," and he went on to warn that pushing Moscow away will only push it into the arms of China.
Europe, Macron said, should strategically explore ways of "Convergence" with Russia that don't abandon Ukraine.
They were viewed by Russia as "a threat" and were "Absolutely irresponsible." The Russian Ministry of Defense simply observed that "The region of Kaliningrad is reliably protected from any aggressive 'plans' developed in Europe by U.S. Generals passing through."
Russia has the ability to strike back at America and its European allies with a full spectrum of capabilities that would degrade command and control, neutralize air bases, and change the reality on the ground as thousands of Russian tanks and armored vehicles advanced with no viable U.S. or NATO ground combat response.
So long as the U.S. and Europe embrace the unrealistic demand of Russia's withdrawal from Crimea and corresponding surrender on the economic and political realignment of Ukraine with the West, Moscow will be compelled to maintain the status quo-which means sustainment of the militarized atmospherics that generate the sort of crises in Kaliningrad and elsewhere that are themselves artificial but could become all too real.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-europe-eyeing-a-reset-with-russia/
"Pushing Russia away from Europe," Macron said, "Is a great mistake," adding that Europe must rethink the relationship.
"Since the fall of the Berlin Wall," he continued, "We have established a relationship with Russia based on mistrust." Russia, Macron declared, "Is in Europe," and he went on to warn that pushing Moscow away will only push it into the arms of China.
Europe, Macron said, should strategically explore ways of "Convergence" with Russia that don't abandon Ukraine.
They were viewed by Russia as "a threat" and were "Absolutely irresponsible." The Russian Ministry of Defense simply observed that "The region of Kaliningrad is reliably protected from any aggressive 'plans' developed in Europe by U.S. Generals passing through."
Russia has the ability to strike back at America and its European allies with a full spectrum of capabilities that would degrade command and control, neutralize air bases, and change the reality on the ground as thousands of Russian tanks and armored vehicles advanced with no viable U.S. or NATO ground combat response.
So long as the U.S. and Europe embrace the unrealistic demand of Russia's withdrawal from Crimea and corresponding surrender on the economic and political realignment of Ukraine with the West, Moscow will be compelled to maintain the status quo-which means sustainment of the militarized atmospherics that generate the sort of crises in Kaliningrad and elsewhere that are themselves artificial but could become all too real.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-europe-eyeing-a-reset-with-russia/
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