A number of European newspapers which had indicated that they would publish an article by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavorv “Ukraine, Europe and Global Security,” suddenly pulled out, no doubt under pressure from above. Politico Europe, the pro-establishment, Brussels-based publication owned by Germany’s Axel Springer SE, pulled the article at the last minute. Corriere della Sera held up the article, claiming that some of the accusations Lavrov was making needed “fact-checking” and then published a heavily edited version. In the light of the growing frustration among the European population of this continual war-mongering by their leadership, strict censorship seems now to have been put in place.
In the article, Lavrov goes through the underlying policy of the EU nations to continue their policy of expanding NATO in an effort to reduce Russia to a mid-level power and using Ukraine as the means to accomplish this, and even warns that this could lead to a nuclear confrontation. He dates this not simply from the Maidan revolution, but all the way back to 2004 in the Orange Revolution. He draws the conclusion that Europe could not be a mediator of the crisis since they are a primary force in fomenting it.
He pointed to the June 7th meeting in London of the EU leaders with their puppet, Volodymyr Zelensky, where they issued their alleged “five-point peace plan.” The “plan” calls for immediate ceasefire as well as a strengthening of Ukraine’s position on the battlefield and the participation of the European nations in the peace talks, apparently as “co-mediators” rather than “belligerents.” “More than two decades of negotiation with Europe, as part of the collective West, leads to only one conclusion,” Lavrov writes, ‘engaging Russia in dialogue has served as a diplomatic smokescreen for the geopolitical expansion of Western institutions, above all NATO and the European Union, eastwards, right up to Russia’s borders.”
Why have the Europeans suddenly begun talking about peace?, he asks. “Europe’s plan is to talk with Russia while simultaneously pressing ahead with a campaign of legal warfare orchestrated through the council of Europe. Within this once-respected organization, an entire infrastructure is being assembled for the express purpose of `holding Russia accountable’: a Register of Damage, a Claims Commission, and a Special Tribunal.
