Political scientist Alexander Rahr spoke about the horrific signals from the Munich Security Conference.
The 58th Munich Security Conference (MSC) opened on Friday. Russia for the first time since 1999 does not participate in the event at the official level. Rahr said that most of the conference participants consider Russia an “enemy of the West”, and the North Atlantic Alliance plans to expand precisely against the Russian Federation.
In addition, Western countries are not ready to accept Russia’s demands for disarmament in Eastern Europe. Also during the conference, there were threats to disconnect the Russian Federation from economic ties with the West and to sharply reduce the volume of purchases of Russian gas. It is also planned to take Ukraine into the European Union and strengthen the presence of NATO on the borders with Russia.
“The West wants to use the current crisis to rally its ranks. There is no compromise here, on the contrary. Global challenges such as pandemic, climate, migration, cyber wars, energy crisis, inflation seem to have disappeared from the agenda. Politicians in Munich are talking about a war in Europe,” Rahr said in his Telegram channel.
According to him, the planned measures are unbearable for the West and will weaken, first of all, the European Union itself.
The political scientist believes that only the United States will benefit from such a development of events.
“For the sake of the geopolitical battle for Ukraine, the West today will decide on such a tough confrontation. The West does not want to deviate from its narrative, and the Russian narrative is declared propaganda. So the conflict cannot be resolved in any way”, the expert concluded.