U.S. President Joe Biden during a special address . File photoMOSCOW, February 21The US hysteria about Russia's «invasion» of Ukraine is similar to the situation on the eve of the First World War, when the German and British empires mistakenly did the same, former CIA chief Russia analyst George Beebe wrote in an article for the National Interest magazine. The author of the article recalled the president's Saturday statement United States Joe Biden, who suggested that Russia «will try to attack Ukraine in the coming days.» The American leader did not provide evidence of such intentions of Moscow. The expert noted that Russia considers the deployment of its troops near the borders as a way to prevent «the most powerful military alliance in the world» — NATO — from settling at its «threshold», while the United States sees this as a threat. In his opinion, this situation is reminiscent of the statement of the former President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, made by him in 1904.
"Kaiser Wilhelm II believes that the British are planning to attack him and destroy his fleet … In fact, the British have no such intentions, but they themselves are terribly afraid that the Kaiser secretly intends … to destroy their fleet and wipe the British Empire from the face of the Earth&# 34;. As he noted, "it was the most amusing case when mutual distrust and fear brought two peoples to the brink of war", Bibi quoted the politician.
The observer noted that the whipping up of hysteria eventually ended in the tragedy of the First World War war.
The West credits Russia with a defeat due to not appearing in the war»As the distrust and fear that poison Russia's relations with the West today lead to a modern catastrophe, we should think about some realities from a critical point of view,» the former CIA analyst concluded The plans attributed to Moscow to escalate the situation around Ukraine in Russia are categorically denied and constantly declare that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements by the West are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, Moscow does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around the neighboring side. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. Statements that Moscow is allegedly preparing provocations in Ukraine continue to come from the West, despite the return of Russian troops to their places of deployment after the exercises. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported at a meeting with Putin on Monday that «some of the exercises are coming to an end, some will be completed in the near future.» On Tuesday, Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said that the Southern and Western military districts had begun returning troops to their places of deployment. Russia Failed to WarPosted: Nikita Brykin