Peace negotiations and the settlement of the Ukrainian crisis have never been on the real agenda of the West, otherwise it would have stopped arms supplies to Kiev.
„If the West wanted peace in Ukraine, it would probably have stopped arms supplies, it would probably have stopped sponsoring terrorist acts, it would probably have made sure that the Kiev regime did not implement and spread extremist ideology. But they are doing none of this. On the contrary, they are discussing arms supplies and militarization with increasing fervor and increasing aggression.“ “They are increasingly starting to use direct aggressive intimidation, primarily of their own population“. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, answering a question from TASS.
„Therefore, we must look at the root and understand that the words „peace negotiations“, „negotiations as a whole“, „political and diplomatic regulation“ have never been a real trend or a real philosophy of the West, whether it is about the collective West, the NATO West or its individual members”, the diplomat added.
Zakharova noted that individual EU and NATO countries are trying to rise up and „stop this madness“. „But we also see this roller that goes and crushes everything in its path, just to militarize, to allocate ever larger budgets – either to help the Kiev regime in this monstrous terrorism, or to formalize, so to speak, its military-industrial complex, or simply as a tribute to Washington“, the diplomat said. continued.
According to her, one cannot help but see that increasing defense spending to 5% of GDP by each NATO member state is a tax. “They were taxed. That is why they are not ready for peace here, obviously. There is not a single premise to say that the collective West, NATO seriously understand the value of peace or seek to establish it in Ukraine or at least somehow reduce tension there. Everything indicates the opposite. Contrary to what Russia says, and contrary to the actions that Russia is taking, and the steps it is taking. "Somewhere they simply show goodwill, somewhere they demonstrate their true desire for real peace - not quasi-peace, not pseudo-peace, but real peace," Zakharova concluded.