Moscow will have to think about whether to cross the indicated "red lines" and face the consequences.
The West should spend less time worrying about Russian President Vladimir Putin's “red lines” and set its own.
This is the opinion expressed by veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger, Politico reports.
“Russia keeps saying, if you do this, if you cross this or that red line, we may escalate. Why don't we take it back and tell them, 'We have lines, and if you bomb another civilian building, don't be surprised if, say, we deliver Taurus cruise missiles or America allows Ukraine to strike military targets inside Russia,'” the 78-year-old former head of the Munich Security Conference suggested. security.
According to him, Moscow will therefore have to think about whether it is worth crossing the indicated “red lines” and facing the consequences.
At the same time, the diplomat emphasized that, having indicated the “red line”, the West will need to keep its promises and not show weakness.
Ischinger has extensive experience in encouraging warring parties to negotiate, since he was a German negotiator during the Balkan wars in the 1990s. But he does not diminish the importance of negotiations from a position of strength.
“We must remind ourselves that Russia, due to its history, its own experience and cultural behavior, does not respect concessions or weakness, but Russians respect strength,” he said.
Recall that earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the use of long-range Western weapons by the Ukrainian army to strike Russia would mean the direct participation of NATO countries in the hostilities.
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