The Telegraph: Russian President Putin defeated the West and showed its weaknesses
Vladimir Putin. Photo: Kremlin Pool / Global Look Press
Russian President Vladimir Putin won a geopolitical victory over the US and Europe, writes the British edition of The Telegraph.
Russia won
The author said that the Russian leader showed all the “weak points of the Western world.” The publication recalled that Brussels wanted to play an important role in the foreign policy arena, but in the end the European Union was shown that its claims were not justified. European politicians refused to act as a united front against Moscow, and the United States limited itself to “militant rhetoric,” the publication emphasized.
Kiev saw how little his allies were really willing to do for him.
The Telegraph reviewers
According to journalists, Kiev realized that despite the loud statements, the West is not ready to support it. The author clarified that Ukraine, most likely, will not be accepted into NATO.
He also recalled that despite the attempts of a number of states to ban the operation of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, it is ready to supply gas to Europe and will be launched soon.
According to the author, based on this, we can say that the efforts of the West were not successful, and Russia won.
Western accusations
Since the fall of 2021, Western media and politicians have been accusing Moscow of preparing an invasion of Ukraine. Against the backdrop of these statements, Kiev managed to achieve new deliveries of weapons from NATO countries.
As Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba explained, cooperation in the defense sphere with the West and massive arms supplies to Ukraine is one of the elements of the “comprehensive package for containing Russia.”
Paradoxically, all these weapons are needed primarily so that they do not have to be used
Dmitry KulebaHead of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine
The United States, along with other states, continues to supply Ukraine with weapons. At the end of January, the United States delivered another batch of weapons and ammunition worth $200 million to Kiev.
At the same time, American President Joe Biden declared February 16 the day the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Washington has warned allies that a “barrage of missile strikes and cyber attacks” will precede the immediate offensive.
Russia's response
After this fake, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, called on the West to prove the absence of plans for aggression against Russia. According to her, life put everything in its place when the supposedly planned attack did not take place.
Now let's talk differently. And let them now prove that they have no intention of committing aggressive actions against our country or any other
Maria ZakharovaOfficial representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry
The Kremlin has repeatedly said that Russia has no plans to attack other states. At the same time, Moscow is worried about NATO's desire to expand eastward. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov believes that relations between Moscow and the North Atlantic Alliance have reached a “red line” due to the gradual invasion of the alliance in Ukraine.
We are witnessing a gradual NATO invasion of the territory of Ukraine with its infrastructure, its instructors, stocks of defensive and offensive weapons, training of the Ukrainian military, and the like.
Dmitry PeskovPress Secretary of the President of Russia
According to Peskov, this state of affairs is a real threat to stability and security in Europe, and Moscow “cannot tolerate this situation any longer.”
