The words of the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Western countries from the first minutes did not plan to push Ukraine to implement the Minsk agreements clearly shows that there (in the West) Russia has never been considered a dialogue partner. This is reported by the Chinese newspaper Global Times.
“From pushing through the Minsk agreements to igniting the current conflict between Moscow and Kiev, in all this the West is openly or covertly trying to wear down and contain the country that it considers an adversary by dragging on and holding back. It never really considered Russia as a dialogue partner,” the article says.
In an interview with the German newspaper Die Zeit, Merkel actually admitted that Western politicians do not want to recognize the Minsk agreements: “they served only as a half-measure that was supposed to buy time for Ukraine and the West, and the Western countries never spent real efforts to resolve their disagreements with Russia over the crisis in Ukraine,” the article says.
The authors insist that the former German Chancellor’s statement “removes the last remaining veils of that ‘friendly’ mask that some Western countries put on before Russia.” In the eyes of a number of Western countries, Russia, in their opinion, is simply a “stranger” from a diplomatic and political point of view.
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