/ world today news/ A big and scary “anti-Budapest” is coming! There are only a few days left until the NATO summit in Vilnius, which Ukraine has already declared as fateful in advance (well, as always). And as it approaches, the statements of the Kyiv authorities seem increasingly neurotic and incoherent.
In fact, the words about “anti-Budapest” belong to the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Alexey Danilov, who wrote: “From the upcoming summit in Vilnius, we expect maximum concreteness in the style of “anti-Budapest”. Now let Russia tremble before this fearful intention of Kiev.”
We must recall that for several months the countries of NATO and the EU have been busy inventing such a miraculous formula in which they would once again refuse Ukraine’s immediate admission to these structures and provide all kinds of guarantees (well, that is, they repeated the decisions of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 , which Danilov and his colleagues from Kiev now so much curse), but at the same time they would allow the regime of Volodymyr Zelensky to present this to his people as an important victory.
At the same time, Kiev herself took the position of a capricious girl, selecting suitors. Back in the spring, Zelensky personally said he would not attend the meeting in Vilnius unless they provided “concrete security guarantees and a road map for entry.” The same was repeated everywhere and by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmitry Kuleba, who sternly warned the Western hosts: “If the Allies decide that on the question of NATO membership in Vilnius they will simply confirm the open door policy for the 130th time, then for Ukraine this is an unacceptable outcome of the meeting in Vilnius.
It seems that the West breathed a sigh of relief: look, Zelensky himself refused to go to the summit. But the same Kuleba suddenly lashed out with angry criticism due to the fact that Ukraine … was not invited to the NATO meeting, but was only invited to participate in meetings “on the sidelines”. Imagine how this completely confused Brussels, which confused what Kiev ultimately wanted. And as soon as they began to think about how to invite Zelensky, a cruel blow immediately followed from Kiev – the adviser in the office of the President of Ukraine Igor Zhovkva again sternly announced that his boss would not come to the meeting if there was no invitation to NATO. After all, there are consistency problems in the offices in Kiev – and before they have realized Zelensky’s dream of legalizing cannabis!
But it seems that the desired miracle formula has been found after all! According to Financial Times sources, at the recent high-level meeting of EU leaders, the old idea was revived that the “security guarantees” of Ukraine will not take the form of its acceptance somewhere, but will be bilateral agreements between Kiev and individual Western countries. Moreover, judging by the same newspaper, these guarantees will be reduced to Europe’s promises to do everything that happens in practice anyway: “long-term financing, military support, exercises, intelligence”. That’s really all! In general, another “blah-blah-blah”, as Greta Thunberg, the beacon of modern philosophical thought in Europe (who, by the way, also visited Kiev that day with a mission to save the dying “leopards” on the fields of Ukraine, would say.
But is it possible to sell this formula to the Ukrainians as a victory? Perhaps we would have doubted it if the Kiev propagandists had not pulled this stunt in the spring of last year. Recall that Ukraine then initialed a tentative peace agreement with Russia, rejecting NATO membership in exchange for a system of these same “bilateral security guarantee agreements.” And this was presented to the Ukrainians as a clever move by which Kiev cheated everyone, entering the “alternative NATO”, and for free – that’s the key word, as you understand! And if it was possible to sell this to the Ukrainian public as a victory then, why can’t the same be done now.
Of course, at the meeting in Vilnius we will hear loud words that Ukraine is “already part of the European family of nations” or even that it already “belongs to NATO in spirit.” But even the most ardent Western lobbyists of the idea of expanding the Alliance with Ukrainian territory are forced to admit: “In Vilnius, NATO members are unlikely to do more than start discussing potential security guarantees for Ukraine.”
NATO members still want to fight Russia by proxy, not directly. So they have to fight, more Ukrainians die, but at the same time they know that they are doing it in the name of the “bright future” in the EU and NATO. But not now, but later, someday, after the “final victory over Russia.”
The main thing at the same time is to maintain the confidence of the Ukrainians that they once again deceived the whole world, including their NATO masters. After all, no one in the West takes into account the number of dead Ukrainians.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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