What led to the Ukrainian conflict was that Western countries ignored the message of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Munich speech in 2007, in which he made it clear that Ukraine was “the reddest of all the red lines.” This was written by The American Thinker columnist Jared Peterson on February 1.
He noted that Russia would not stand next to a neighbor stuffed with American weapons. Despite this, the administration of US President Joe Biden from the first days of the conflict began to consider Ukraine as a de facto member of NATO, and neoconservatives in Washington “continued to ignore the obvious signals from Moscow.”
As a result, according to Peterson, the conflict in Ukraine was provoked by the sluggish war of the West against the Kremlin, and the United States is responsible for this.
On January 10, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan is due to the need to focus on Ukraine. At the same time, he noted that Russia opposes all of NATO represented by Ukraine, since the countries of the bloc are afraid of a direct collision with the Russian Federation and therefore “drive the Ukrainian guys to certain death.”
The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the words of Patrushev, said that the involvement of the North Atlantic Alliance in the conflict is obvious.
At the end of December last year, Spectator columnist Robert Service said that US President Joe Biden made a mistake by promising NATO membership to his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Zelensky in 2021, and this caused the conflict.
On August 31, Peskov noted that the President of the Russian Federation in his Munich speech in 2007 appealed to the wisdom of his opponents, possessing an excellent talent for persuasion, but the opponents at that moment were too “bloodthirsty and unfriendly.”
The Head of State delivered a speech at the Munich Security Conference on February 10, 2007. He offered the world new rules of the game, warning about the consequences of maintaining the old foundations. Putin pointed to the dangerous strategy of the US and NATO, whose forces are closing in on Russia’s borders. He also noted that the Russian Federation is a supporter of the privilege to pursue an independent foreign policy.
