NARRATIVE: "I note that the first contacts with the new American administration
inspire certain hopes. There is a reciprocal mood to work to restore
intergovernmental ties and to gradually resolve the huge number of
systemic and strategic problems that have built up in the world's
security architecture," said Putin.
But
Putin said it was clear that not all countries were in favour of the
idea of warmer ties between the world's two biggest nuclear powers.
- "We understand that not everyone is happy with the resumption of Russian-American contacts. Some Western elites are still determined to maintain instability in the world, and these forces will try to disrupt or compromise the dialogue that has begun," said Putin.
- "We need to be aware of this and use all possibilities when it comes to diplomacy and our intelligence services to disrupt such attempts."
He
did not spell out who he had in mind. But his comments looked like a
reference to the European Union and Britain, which have raised concerns
about the prospect of any Russia-U.S. talks to end the war in Ukraine
that do not have Kyiv and the EU at the negotiating table and are too
soft on Moscow.
[...] Putin, who said he still hoped it would be possible to create what he
called a more balanced European and global security system, said he
believed that the West itself was now in the midst of a serious crisis.
'Europe refuses to see that Vladimir Putin is in fact waging a war against it and against the West'
In response to the totalitarian pressure exerted on Europe by the Russian president, Karl Schlögel, winner of the 2024 Jacques Delors European Book Prize, reminds us in an op-ed for Le Monde, of the European identity of Ukraine, and sounds the alarm about a return of the 'kidnapped West' evoked by Milan Kundera.
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