The chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Russia’s upper chamber, Konstantin Kosachev, said that the West’s selfish obsession with grabbing security for itself by destabilizing others, ends with the death of the West. Kosachev, who is also the vice-speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, posted on Telegram today: “[S]ooner or later, the West will have to make an existential choice” — because pursuing its own interests at the expense of others can come to no good end—"or admitting that this suicidal strategy has exhausted itself.” As Kosahev explained, the principle of “indivisibility of security architecture” means a “deliberate refusal to ensure one’s own security at the expense” of others’. While not easy, it is the only way forward, and is “a cornerstone” for all diplomatic arrangements.
He took note of the recent limited statements of French President Macron and German President Scholz on Russia’s security concerns: They “suggest that there are still remnants of common sense and a sense of self-preservation in France and Germany, which are behaving more responsibly.” Even though Macron and Scholz had only introduced a reference to Russian security as an issue that could be taken up after Russia’s military defeat, their remarks were still too much for some in the West. Kosachev specifically referred to Poland and the Baltic nations, countries that had taken exception to the mere thought that Russia had any security concerns.