The world seems to be willing to continue with its vertiginous turns and changes in international diplomatic alliances or preferences. In a context in which the European Union faces one of its greatest debates since its foundation and the adoption of the single currency, the Kremlin of Vladimir Putin has reacted this Friday bluntly to the agreements adopted yesterday in Brussels. Moscow believes that “all this militarization is directed, in broad strokes, against Russia” and already talks about including Europe – francia, in reality – in future nuclear disarmament treaties.
However, these agreements did not take anyone off guard. The proposal of the European Commission that had put its president, Ursula von der Layen on the table, has adopted the same form, although it will still be to continue shaping what is emerging as a macro investment of the whopping of 800,000 million euros to reinforce the defense of the twenty -seven. An unprecedented community initiative. Unprecedented the initiative, of course, because the decision connects directly with the change of tenant in the oval office.
The arrival of the Trump administration is marked by its approach to the Kremlin to negotiate an end of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but also by the constant called to increase the percentage of GDP that European partners allocate to defense within the framework of NATO or that it is Europe that assumes the sending of peace troops in a hypothetical postwar ukraine. And for the threat to withdraw the US protection and resources from the old continent while initiating a worldwide commercial war.
The Kremlin: “This may be, of course, a topic of deep concern”
In this sense, the Russian government spokesman Dmitri Peskov, has been in charge of detailing this Moscow position in his daily telephone press conference. In tune with previous statements in which he questioned that Brussels really wants to end the conflict -the EU has made it clear that Ukraine and Europe must be part of the negotiation that seeks to monopolize Eeuu and Russia -, Peskov has recognized that “potentially, this may be, of course, a subject of deep concern.”
He has not stayed there and has displayed the usual veiled threats, specifying that Russia could be forced “to adopt the corresponding response measures to guarantee their safety.” The spokesman has stressed that his executive “will do everything in his hand” for it and has argued that the agreed does not contribute to a peaceful solution. “The rhetoric and antagonistic plans, which we see now in Brussels and in the European capitals, of course, seriously disagree with the mood of looking for roads for the peaceful arrangement in Ukraine,” he said.
At the time Peskov made these statements, a good part of Ukraine tried to recover a brutal Russian bombing on a large scale throughout the invaded country. The first since the US announced that it froze military and economic aid, in addition to cutting the exchange of intelligence information, vital to defend against this type of attack. Moscow has launched a whopping 67 missiles, reaches and 194 drones against energy facilities, this time of natural gas.
It has also been the first time that kyiv has tried to repel these bombings using the French fighters. They managed to lower 34 missiles and a hundred drones to which 80 must be added that fell without load -they are used as a lure, to confuse. To seniors, Moscow also hit with three Iskander Balistic missiles, 4 S-300 anti-aircraft missiles and 7 KH-59 and KH-69 guided missiles.
Moscow wants French and British nuclear arsenals to enter disarmament negotiations
Clearly the discomfort of Moscow continues with Paris after the Gallic president, Emmanuel Macron, made a historical proposal, offering to share the nuclear umbrella – along with the United Kingdom, is one of the few powers with nuclear weapons – to the rest of the community block. Since then, the Russian authorities have described him as a kind of Napoleon, reminding him of his outcome when trying to invade the then Russian empire, although this time he advances in another direction is Russia.
“It is impossible to exclude European arsenals from dialogue,” Peskov said this morning. An issue that beyond the European Union block itself also includes London. Peskov has assured that negotiations for a nuclear disarmament enter their plans: “It is an issue that is on the agenda. We believe that the dialogue between Russia and the United States on armament control is necessary, especially in terms of strategic stability.”
Although, in recent years, Putin has activated the deployment of its nuclear deterrence and abandoned treaties dating from the cold war. These are the first gestures of returning to the path of the negotiation in nuclear matters and arrive after the European Union has reacted proposing an autonomous defense plan of the United States. Perhaps someone has reviewed the history books beyond the Napoleonic wars and warned that the USSR and the steel curtain … ended in Berlin.
