Meeting today in Brussels, the NATO-Russia Council hopes to mitigate tensions stemming largely from mass anti-Russia hysteria in Washington and the European Union, where 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin is blamed for cyber-attacks, election meddling and undermining Western democracies. No where is the anti-Russia hysteria more virulent than in Washington where both sides of the political aisle find reason to hate on the Russian Federation. Former President Donald Trump found out the extent anti-Russia hysteria with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton fabricating the Steele Dossier with the political intent of wrecking Trump’s 2016 campaign. Former FBI Director James Comey, 61, concocted a counterintelligence investigation into Trump accusing him of colluding with the Russian government, all to help Hillary win the 2016 presidential election.
Today’s meeting between NATO and Russia hopes to de-escaalate East-West tensions largely fabricated over Ukraine, where Western officials and the press have been warning about another Russian invasion of Ukraine. When the first invasion happened March 1, 2014, Western officials denied that a Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed, pro-Western Coup in Kiev toppled the Kremlin-backed government of Viktor Yanukovich. No Western official or press outlet admitted that the Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed pro-Western coup drove Putin to annex the Crimean Peninsula to protect his Sevastopol naval base. All the recent reports from the Western Press accused Putin of another invasion of the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine. Putin and his Kremlin envoy Sergei Rybakov had denied considering a new Ukraine invasion, more Western propaganda designed to make Russia look aggressive.
New fake news by the New York Times and Washington Post insist that Putin considers a Ukraine invasion, when he’s said emphatically that it’s not happening. So Putin is constantly subjected to fake news, despite his dispute to the contrary that he has any intention of invading Ukraine. So the when it comes to U.S. State Department positions or the press, there’s noting factual about the current situation in Ukraine. Putin asked NATO to guarantee that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would refrain from seeking NATO membership. Zelensky agreed to mediation with Russia, Germany and France, without the U.S., to resolve any differences about whether Russia has any intention of invading Ukraine. Zelensky knows that the path out of the current crisis is working with Russia, France and Germany to reduce the Western propaganda that Russia considered invading Ukraine.
When 61-year-old Russian envoy Sergei Rybakov met with 72-year-old Deputy State of State Wendy Sherman Jan. 10, Sherman continued the threats of more crippling sanctions against Putin. Sherman was given her walking orders by 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken accuses Putin of preparing a Russia invasion. Rybakov disputed Sherman’s claims, insisting that the Russian Federation had no intent of invading the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine. What’s clear from Sherman’s diplomacy is she has pre-conceived notions, blaming Putin for things he has no intent of doing. Rybakov is having a better time dealing with NATO, where Secretary of State Jens Stoltenberg has less an ax to grind. Biden clearly has a vendetta with Putin, refusing to to take him at his word, listening to all the fake news, accusing Putin of preparing a new Ukraine invasion to harm U.S.-Russian relations.
NATO wants nothing of Biden’s belligerent rhetoric toward Putin and the Russian Federation. Unlike the U.S., NATO has worked diligently to get along with Russia, finding ways to avoid military conflict. Putin wants simple guarantees that Ukraine would work out its issues with Russia, working with France and Germany to figure out a way to de-escalate tensions around the Ukrainian border. Zelensky knows that a sizable portion of pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region want no part of the Kiev government, controlled by former heavyweight boxer Vitali Klitschko, currently the mayor. Putin wanted assurances from NATO that if would keep offensive and defensive weapons out of Ukraine, to prevent encroachment on Russian national security. Putin told NATO that Russia has no where to go when it comes to Ukraine seeking weapons from NATO to defends its borders.
Putin has given all the assurances to NATO necessary that it has no intent of invading Ukraine. NATO knows that without the Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed, pro-Western coup that toppled the Kremlin-backed Ukraine government, Putin would have never seized Crimea. Zelensky needs only work out a deal with Putin to stay in Sevastopol, home to Russia’s warm water fleet. Zelensky has wasted his time begging NATO for membership, when simply striking a deal with the Kremlin for a long-term lease would have given Putin all the assurances he needs to stay in Crimea. Putin might have ceded back most of the Crimean Peninsula to Ukraine had Zelensky given guarantees about Russian national security. NATO looks more poised to negotiate with the Russian Federation than the U.S. Biden and the fake news need take Putin at his word that he has no intent of invading Ukraine.
