The West had already been preparing for the war with Russia in 2015. He did not intend to convince Ukraine to end the fight against the separatist Russian-speaking region.
He wanted to buy time to prepare Ukraine for war. And making conversation look like he set a trap for Moscow. It truly looks like it's pouring fuel into the fire. The European Commission adopted the proposal of the president of Ukraine Zelenski and convened the EU summit in Kiev at the beginning of next month, primarily to discuss further assistance to Ukraine. The main subject will be the scale of military support, the creation of financial facilities for reconstruction.
Ambitious plans, due to the fact that rebuilding requires first and foremost a peace that is not even on the horizon. High-ranking EU officials do not care for a minute that Moscow is presently preparing a larger-scale offensive against Kiev, they may think that happiness is conducive to the brave. This is not courage, but provocation, which makes peace even more hopeless, due to the fact that the Kremlin obtains evidence that the attack on Ukraine was justified from his point of view.
Why? Vladimir Putin explained many years ago at the Munich safety Conference why Ukraine should be part of the Russian business region for historical, cultural and linguistic reasons. Of course, 1 can ask, on what basis does the large power want to make a sphere of interest for itself? But we besides gotta ask a hypothetical question: what would Washington say if Mexico slow began to "slip" to the another side? He surely wouldn't let that happen, something like that would never let a large power. A neighbour shouldn't be his enemy.
And so it did. However, there was a spark of hope that, after an effort to detach Donbass, mostly inhabited by the Russians, what the Russian-speaking population wanted to accomplish through the armed struggle, the parties would, however, sit down to the negotiating table and come to a peaceful solution.
However, the hopes of this were burning, due to the fact that in 2014, the United States, for "lowly" 5 billion dollars, organised a coup in Kiev and overturned the legally elected president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych. Only due to the fact that he refused to sign an association agreement with the European Union and began to approach Moscow. And his successor, Petro Poroshenko, he made a 180-degree turn due to the fact that he was willing to compose even in the Ukrainian constitution that his country would become a associate of NATO and the EU.
Agreement between the already dead russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev and then president of the United States George Bush is rather well known today: the russian Union will not interfere with social change in east Europe, in return the United States will not shift NATO's military infrastructure or millimeter to the east. The agreement did not even expire after the merger of 2 German states. It is the president of the United States that Bill Clinton broke the customary law that all next White home tenant keeps his predecessors' promises. Currently, all east Europe and 3 erstwhile russian Baltic republics are members of NATO.
But that's not all, due to the fact that after the 2014 coup that overturned the Ukrainian president, the West set a trap for Moscow, until late she noticed. Under strong force from the West in late 2014, the parties sat down to the negotiating table in the capital of Belarus and yet signed respective amended agreements in Minsk in February 2015. In addition to the immediate ceasefire, it was recorded that the Ukrainian army would be separated from separatist fighters by a 30 km buffer zone, dense weapons, freed hostages and prisoners of war would be withdrawn. However, the agreement was doomed from the outset to failure, as it included a request for Kiev to start a dialog on the future position of the Donetsk and Luhansk (Donbas) circuit and to carry out a constitutional improvement decentralising the state, which would mean giving Donbas autonomous status.
These last 2 conditions have not even begun. At this time in Kiev nationalists, utmost right, neofascists dominated the political scene. However, on paper, the agreement existed, and the only affirmative consequence was that although the armed struggles continued, the conflict did not escalate.
And it was a trap for the West set on Russia. There was a Russian-Ukrainian “frozen” conflict, the solution of which was written on paper, but in fact the situation was becoming more difficult. In another words, Moscow may have believed that the Minsk agreement negotiated by France and Germany would yet be a adequate warrant of further negotiations to accomplish truce and peace.
Seven years have passed since the agreement with Minsk, and 1 day the Kremlin realized that the NATO-supported aggressive army had set up along the western borders of Russia, even though Ukraine is not a associate of the western defence system. During this time, the West severely equipped the Ukrainian army. Before the war broke out, Zelenski boldly said: “Minsk agreements do not exist!’
What precisely happened? "The West had no intention of convincing Kiev to comply with the Minsk agreement. Instead, the goal was to gain time and usage it to strengthen the Ukrainian army," said erstwhile German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an interview with the German paper Die Zeit. This means that as early as 2015, the West decided to provoke any kind of armed conflict to weaken Russia. The West so utilized Minsk agreements not to reconcile the parties, but to prepare Ukraine for war with Russia. However, Moscow, trusting in good German intentions, including economical cooperation, reacted late to this trap.
According to Merkel, the Minsk agreements were successful in 1 respect, due to the fact that “Ukraine has taken time to become stronger, as we see today. Ukraine of that time is not present Ukraine. Then Putin could win easily. And I highly uncertainty that NATO countries could have done as much as present to aid Kiev," Merkel argued.
For Moscow, the expression is clear: The West cannot be trusted, so it must be put before the fact made. There was nothing else to do.
So who started this war?
Péter G. Fehér
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‘For: ‘Magyar Hirlap’
