MOSCOW, 25 Dec. Attempts to expand NATO eastward were preparations for war with Moscow, Security Council deputy chairman Dmitry Medvedev said in an article «Our people, our land, our truth» in Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
“Now it is completely clear that in the relationship of independent and sovereign states with the Anglo-Saxon world in the current configuration, there can be no talk of trust, hope for the decency of partners, their loyalty to the word and even their own beautifully stated principles,” he wrote.
At the same time, Russia «now has no one to talk to and negotiate with the West, about nothing, and there is no need for,» Medvedev added.
He pointed out that today Russia and the West are separated much more than they are united. In his opinion, the past year was a turning point in this respect, and the events that took place in it annulled the very possibility of a trusting and respectful dialogue.
Medvedev stressed that the deeds and deeds of current and former Western leaders are striking in their cynicism. He recalled the words of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the Minsk agreements were started with the aim of «giving Ukraine time to become stronger.»
«That is, they were originally conceived to prepare for a bloody war. What the Kyiv neo-Nazis did — with the full connivance or direct assistance of «civilized Europeans», — the deputy chairman of the Security Council believes.
He noted that at that time the Russian side trusted its partners, not expecting direct betrayal from them and open work to destroy the country. Medvedev recalled the events of 2010, when he, as president, participated in a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council.
«The members of the alliance assured us then that we did not pose a threat to each other and were ready to work together for the common security of the Euro-Atlantic area. Enlargement NATO to the east and preparations for confrontation — in fact, for war — with Russia did not stop for a minute. Endless muddy streams of cynical lies,» the deputy head of the Security Council said.
In his opinion, the general crisis of confidence in Western countries, which are trying to confiscate Russian assets and introduce new sanctions with a stroke of the pen, is also obvious.
«For years, maybe decades ahead, we can forget about normal relations with the West. This is not our choice,» Medvedev stressed.
Russia will wait for a «new generation of reasonable politicians» time of relations with the rest of the world, he added.
More moreover: in modern conditions, the West is not at all able to offer the world any new ideas that can bring humanity forward, solve global problems, ensure collective security,» the deputy head of the Security Council wrote.
He added that there is a global ideological and philosophical collapse of the Western worldview, its model of the world order, which is especially noticeable in modern realities.