Warning Putin The draft agreements between Moscow on the one hand and Washington and Brussels on the site on the site on the site and Washington and Brussels on the other, is an ultimatum based on a real threat to the use of military force, assessed Putin’s speech in a conversation with the Russian service BBC Michael Cofman, head Russian Program at the US Naval Analysis Center.
As previously, Russia submitted by Russia, the security project includes such requirements, to eliminate NATO to further expand the block, as well as the abandonment of military activities in Ukraine and other countries of Eastern Europe, Transcaucasia and Central Asia.
“This is an ultimatum based on the real threat to the use of military force,” said Cofman.
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When the projects of agreements were published, Cofman came to the conclusion that Russia not only asks forms impossible, but also does it in the form that will definitely lead to failure – because serious negotiations are conducted behind closed doors. This anxiety also shares Ian Kelly, who served as the US representative at the OSCE and the ambassador to Georgia in the administration of the President of Barack Obama: “When countries seriously want to discuss documents, they do not publish them. The fact of publication itself actually makes them demanding, and not inviting negotiations.”
He agreed that the proposals of Russia turned out to be so unilateral that their discussion was doomed to failure: “Russians know that we will not discuss European security with Russia without attracting our European allies. I am afraid that it is just a preposition and justification for the military actions that Russia puts forward these suggestions, knowing that we cannot discuss them. “
Kelly added that if the East Putin protests against the expansion of NATO since 2008, then the requirement for the Alliance to abandon any military cooperation with post-Soviet countries appeared quite recently.