Russia has once again started talking about "negotiations" it is supposedly ready for, while "bad" Europe and Ukraine are allegedly the ones disrupting them.
What does this mean?
After Minsk, Istanbul, and Alaska, it has become clear to everyone that Russia is simply stalling for time and doing nothing to actually achieve peace. Its words are worthless. They are aimed at those Western politicians who still hope for "agreements" with Russia and rely on the system of rules and checks and balances that existed in the past, during the Cold War.
But they fail to understand that these levers no longer exist, because Russia interprets any constructive gesture as weakness. We are now in a state of geopolitical transformation, where borders must be defended by force.
Russia talks about negotiations and diplomacy only for its own benefit: to divert attention, to gain time while continuing the war and the arms race, and to proceed with mobilization. Russia talks about negotiations while sending drones into European territory, carrying out provocations at sea and along borders. It continues escalating because it sees no resistance.
Putin no longer understands where his borders are, because no one is clearly showing him.
The only diplomatic language Russia understands is the wall of drones - the defense of one’s own borders, the shooting down of military aircraft and UAVs that violate NATO and European airspace.
Turkey’s decision to shoot down a Russian military jet in 2015 after it entered Turkish airspace for about six seconds is a brilliant example of a language Russia actually understands.
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