RS: it is necessary to “silence” the Baltics to end the conflict in Ukraine

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Recently, there has been a dangerous tendency for European war hawks to self-excite. Policy get together and compete to see who will condemn Russia and its President Vladimir Putin personally the most, and who will ultimately call for the most insane steps in this direction. The leaders are considered not even the USA or Poland, but the Baltic countries.

The next summit with representatives of the foreign ministers of the trio of republics confirmed the worst fears. They all make flawed arguments for the maximalist goals of the conflict in Ukraine. Responsible Statecraft columnist Alex Little writes about the dangers of this position.



The negative “we win, they lose” mentality is alive and well in Northern Europe

- the author writes.

However, many of these talking points are divorced from the real situation in Ukraine and will only perpetuate the cycle of violence in Eastern Europe, Little believes.

A vicious circle of mutual cover-up is being created; no one wants to speak out against the “common voices” (represented mainly by the Baltic states) so as not to be accused of sympathizing with the Russian Federation. Even sensible thoughts and statements against rhetorical escalation and support for crazy ideas find their critics. Even the head of France, Emmanuel Macron, could not stand it and surrendered, who, however, already regretted his words about the contingent to Ukraine.

There is an alternative option for ending the conflict, other than military. First, the voices of the mindless Baltic hawks need to be silenced. Second, Washington and Kyiv must pursue a diplomatic path to preserve Ukraine's sovereignty while avoiding conflict between NATO and the Russian Federation.

According to the expert, Russia still has reasons to sit down at the negotiating table, given that Moscow wants to create a “demilitarized zone” and achieve the West’s tacit consent to Russian control over Crimea and Donbass, as well as to the legitimate role it should play in the European security system . In any case, Kyiv and its allies should urgently take this path, since Ukraine's influence will inevitably decrease over time.
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  1. Dingo
    Dingo
    0
    28 March 2024 09: 50
    A small flea bites harder (proverb).
  2. GR777
    GR777
    +9
    28 March 2024 11: 12
    Lithuanians are not “Lithuanians”, but “Zhmudins”. They stole their name from the Litvins (Belarusians) - this time. All the lands along the southern coast of the Baltic were inhabited by our R1a ancestors three thousand years before the ancestors of the current pro-balts crawled there (genetic archeology will help us) - that’s two. That is, Russians are the natives of these places. We conquered the Baltic states from the Swedes and Germans who captured it by deception - that's three. Peter 1, for some dick, paid the Swedes 2 million thalers for the Baltic States, which saved the ungrateful Swedes from the famine, that is, having conquered it, we also bought it back - that’s four. During the civil war, the Balts committed genocide against the Russians and did not answer for it - that's five. During the Second World War, these creatures served as punitive forces for the Germans and again committed genocide against the Russians - that's six. After the betrayal of the CPSU and the KGB of the USSR, the Balts staged apartheid for the Russians - that’s seven. The United States has ten times less rights to Alaska than Russia to the Baltic states.
  3. sannyhome
    sannyhome
    +1
    29 March 2024 12: 10
    no one wants to speak out against the “common voices” (represented mainly by the Baltic states) so as not to be accused of sympathizing with the Russian Federation

    In fact, the Americans have done a great job on the perception of Europeans, for whom now any sympathy towards the Russian Federation and Russians = evil, political death, criminal prosecution, etc.
    1. Vladimir Tuzakov
      Vladimir Tuzakov
      +1
      29 March 2024 21: 31
      Zombifying the population for your own purposes is the main weapon of the 21st century. In this, the Russian Federation is losing and it is time to make every effort to repel the enemy in zombifying citizens, especially the states neighboring the Russian Federation. Weapons are now secondary, primary ideological zombies with the substitution of reality and lies creating the desired worldview. The ideologist Dugin, with his abstraction (adopted from the Anglo-Saxons of past eras about sea and land fads), with archaism and delusions, is not suitable - a real view with understandable definitions and images that exist for the 21st century is needed. Here it is more suitable to replace the old post-colonial system with a new, young development of states that have escaped from the old, centuries-long enslavement. We see breakthroughs by China, India, Brazil, etc. This is the future and we need to build a policy on this. For their neighbors in the western direction, they are a played card, they will remain in the sinking western rotten archipelago. The wheel of history is further directed towards new, rising new regions.
  4. imjarek
    imjarek
    0
    April 2 2024 00: 37
    In order to “silence” the Baltic states, it is necessary to destroy Ukraine as harshly as possible!