Comment to another
reader’s comment:
“Why don't you ask the
Ukrainians, the Poles, the Lithuanians, the Latvians etc what they think of
Russia.”
Actually, your comment is exceptionally obtuse.
Those countries have old sore spots and antipathies from the
days of the USSR, but I hardly think it wise to build a future on those.
The United States understands exactly how to manipulate
those old feelings, and it does so.
Of course, anyone interested in peace, genuine peace, would
not do so.
But the American establishment is interested only in control
and manipulation for its own strategic interests.
Strong positive relations between Russia and Europe would
not only bring stability and peace, everyone would be richer with greatly
increased trade and prospects. Russia has immense resources, both human and
mineral, to work with Europe's more advanced economy.
The classical economics argument for the EU’s existence,
expansion of trade for all and increased wealth, goes double for the case of
Russia.
So apart from threatening peace, the US position is quite
literally making Europeans poorer and missing opportunities in the name of
"containing" Russia.
