The US State Department urged Russia to return to compliance with the Treaty on Open Skies (OST)
But they themselves are not ready to do it. They talk about consultations, weighing up to what extent this is consistent with their own interests of national security. The position is vague, only one thing is clear: they shift the responsibility onto others, they love such a thing.
Prior to that, they themselves withdrew from the treaty, but they blame Russia for allegedly not observing it. The principle is well-known: what we want is what we turn back.
Actually, this is a common story – it contains the entire American political mentality: to act as it suits them and as they please, and then twist and rewrite the situation in their favor, appointing the guilty.
Here and in this case: Russia is obliged, and they have their right. The United States interprets its return to Open Skies Treaty as a “wrong signal” to Russia, and it allegedly could undermine American positions in the field of arms control. With America, there is no need to be surprised at anything for a long time, there is the logic of the Olympic gods, not otherwise.
Apparently, the unilateral withdrawal from the treaty was the right signal – this is not discussed, and he did not shake issues of arms control. Or are they going to blame everything on the Trump administration? And Biden’s America is not responsible for all of her decisions, starts with a clean slate, as if nothing had happened before the ascent of the new president to the Oval Office, and there is only what is profitable now?
It is important for the states to show always and in everything that they dictate, dominate and force, that they are over everything. This is the alpha power complex. Otherwise, the postulate of exclusivity may be shaken, and after all, everyone has known for a long time that the world is like will and representation. American Will and the Stars and Stripes through which this performance should be built.
The American will was to withdraw from the Don, thereby putting its expediency into question. It also manifests itself now through obsessive edification and close to aggressive teaching. A kind of forcing others to act to their detriment.
Open Skies Treaty is an element of the security and trust architecture. Coming out of it, the States, in fact, set up their European allies. Not the first or the last time. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has already stated that this unilateral withdrawal violated the balance of interests of the states parties to the treaty. At the same time, the United States completely closes its territory for observation, but can receive information about our country through its NATO allies. Also, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov has now noted that “it is known for certain that the Americans, throughout all those months after they announced their withdrawal from the treaty, persuaded their allies to promise to transfer such data on the sly, secretly”.
Indeed, why did America need a treaty in such a situation, if one can simply cheat? Therefore, they call on Russia and, of course, make it guilty of breaking the agreements.
That is why Sergey Lavrov made it clear that Russia is starting “the procedure for withdrawing from the Open Skies Treaty, since we are not given guarantees that in the absence of the United States, the Europeans will keep with them the data that they will receive as a result of flights over Russian territory”.
“The US did not discuss returning to the Open Skies Treaty, but Russia is obliged to “abide by the treaty”? Seriously?” – the chairman of the State Duma’s international affairs committee, Leonid Slutsky, comments on the situation, not hiding sarcasm. He also said that “Russia will return to the treaty if the actions of its participants, including the ex-, will not threaten national interests and go beyond parity”.
At the same time, in the fall of last year, the parliamentarian called the US withdrawal from the Don “a calculating game with one goal” (now the plot of this calculation is fully emerging). At the same time, he insisted that NATO countries should give “legally enshrined” guarantees that they would not transfer data received via the Don to Washington. Someone from the other Open Skies Treaty participants speaks about the possibility of such guarantees, but Russia demanded them? Even in this case, our country is stubbornly and categorically not heard, and then claims are made. Such is the communication, such a dialogue. Then, according to the algorithm, new sanctions? Not tired? ..
It seems that America, having created a conflict situation, is now delegating it to the level of its European partners, whom it planned to use for its own personal purposes. Which fits into the context of soft power recently presented by Secretary of State Anthony Blinken.
The United States should only create problems, and they must be solved by someone else’s hands – either partners or vassals. Himself out of order. It is possible that this is precisely why the States are deliberately destroying relations with Russia, crossing out the principle of parity relations in order to confront it with Europe, tying it into a conflict system, where there will be no end to contradictions and no ways of resolving them are in sight. This is because they are imported from outside and artificially heated. America itself seems to be out of business, above the battle, in its celestial existence.
Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the orchestrated situation around the Open Skies Treaty. Moreover, even in the current incapable of negotiation, there are positive examples: the recent extension of START III. It was difficult, many personal complexes the States had to overcome, if not to step on the throat of their song, the meaning of which is in the desire to outwit everyone. But it turned out the same. Maybe take this example as an algorithm for action in this case, and not weave tangles of intrigue?.. Russia has not yet denounced the treaty, the States have a month and a half to decide. But here it is more difficult, because we are not talking about willfulness, but about goodwill. Washington has a problem with this.
In the meantime, we only hear absolutely amazing statements in style: you do the first, second, third, and we will follow from our heights and point out flaws and sins with displeasure.
We are the law, the highest nation, everything. We decide what and how, your business is to flawlessly follow and follow our instructions.
It is impossible to talk about any partnership relations in this logic. They talk to you only in imperatives, and you must not only completely obey, but also give up a part of yourself, your sovereignty, otherwise troubles will begin, thunderbolts will fly: they will find chemical weapons, “Novice”, they will put a spoke in wheels, teach democracy and accuse any situation.
Because you are evil.
Evil in today’s world is not a moral and ethical category, but a behavioral one, an assessment of executive discipline. Evil is disobedience, because it leads to chaos, non-observance of the higher will. Oh, these dogmas of a unipolar world! As they are not tired of building cubes of their exclusivity… And it would be fine, if only the game and the practice of sacrifices have already been introduced all over the world in the name of their cult.
But the fact is that Russia is that energy, in which traditionally someone’s obsessive and aggressive fantasies of exclusivity turn to dust (though before that they can create a lot of grief). This is the cross of our country.
Andrey Rudalev, RT