Flags of participating states in front of NATO Headquarters in BrusselsMOSCOW, 2 Feb. The fate of the West hangs in the balance because of the Ukrainian crisis, journalist Sherrill Jacobs writes in an article for The Daily Telegraph. Since the Cold War, the United States, in her opinion, «considered freedom, democracy and human rights as the highest point of evolution.» It was this position that allegedly prompted Washington to expand NATO to Russian borders, and the European Union prepared to accept Ukraine into its ranks. However, after the failed military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the financial crisis and the confrontation with Russia, that resolve is crumbling, Jacobs stressed. they don’t want to defend it,” the reporter wrote. In addition, the current crisis, she noted, exposed the poverty of the West: Germany depends on Russian gas, and the States are split from the inside by ideological contradictions.
The Czech Republic called the condition for the collapse of NATOJacobs is sure that the West needs a new ideology that «defends the nation state and allows it to come to the aid of Ukraine.» Otherwise, according to her, a «disastrous spiral of humiliation and decline» and «the end of history» await him. In recent months, Western media have increasingly reported on Moscow's alleged preparation of an «invasion» of Ukraine. In Russia, such allegations have been refuted more than once. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out, the armed forces are moving within the territory of the state — this does not threaten anyone and should not worry anyone. Moscow stressed that statements about «Russian aggression» are being used as a pretext for building up NATO contingents in the border regions. Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin called the stuff about the «invasion» malicious propaganda of the US State Department. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in turn, stressed that Russia has never threatened the Ukrainian people. /02/e02f8392492fb5e15aaec451d5687405.jpg» />Europe feared the consequences of sanctions against Russia
