Last week, President Putin delivered an important speech at the Valde Forum. Moscow released two messages. One is that Putin may go to Indonesia to attend the G20 summit, and the other is that Russia is willing to directly engage in dialogue with the United States. However, Washington responded immediately, saying that Biden has no plan to meet Putin, and the issue of Ukraine's armistice should be decided by Ukraine.
But despite this, Russian top leaders continued to express their hope of engaging in dialogue with the United States. On October 30, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said on the National Channel One live broadcast program that Russian leaders, including President Putin, are still willing to negotiate on the Ukraine issue, and also said that Russia is willing to listen to the suggestions put forward by Western countries to ease tensions at any time.
Lavrov said that on the basis of equality and respect for each other's interests, it is possible to negotiate with Moscow with realistic suggestions on the basis of the principles of equality and respect for each other's interests, and on the same day, President Putin's press secretary Peskov also delivered a speech on Russian TV One, and he spoke more specifically.
said that as long as the United States is willing to listen to Russian concerns and re-discuss Russia's security issues, the talks between Putin and Biden may be held. Peskov even said that the demands raised by the Russians may not be all appropriate, but they are still worth sitting down to talk. From Putin to Lavrov to Peskov, the top Russians have repeatedly proposed to talk with the United States. What does this mean?
First of all, the Russian side's position has changed. Putin also said in early October that he believes that it is not necessary to meet Biden at present, because Russia and the United States have no basis for negotiations for the time being, but by the end of October, the attitude has changed significantly. Second, why this change occurs, the reason should be clear, that is, Russia's pressure on the battlefield and domestic pressure are great;
Third, some experts say that Russia has even sent out signals to reduce its demands, such as Peskov hopes that the United States returns to the background from December to January last year, considering the issue of NATO to ensure Russia's security. We all remember that at that time, Ukraine and the United States said, "Russia gathers heavy troops in the border areas with Ukraine and may 'invade' Ukraine'." Russia has denied this many times and emphasized that it is NATO's activities that threaten Russia's border security.
In mid-December last year, Russia submitted a draft bilateral security agreement to the United States and NATO respectively, making suggestions on Russia's security demands. Now Peskov said that perhaps the demands put forward by Russia in this draft agreement cannot satisfy everyone, but both sides are still worth sitting down and talking. Fourth, from the Russian army that was overwhelmed by a year ago, and later sent troops, the war has fought to this day, everyone has seen that things are contrary to their wishes. It not only makes the expansion of NATO members a reality, but also may lose the Crimea that we obtained 8 years ago.
And unilaterally legislate to annex Ukrainian territory, and then go back and think about resolving the problem through negotiation, is it still possible? This is the key point. In other words, giving the opportunity to the opponent and blocking his retreat. How can there be a prerequisite for negotiation? In terms of Kiev , no matter who is president, it is impossible to lose power and humiliate the country to negotiate with Russia. In terms of Moscow, how shameful it would be to spit out what you eat.
Foreign Minister Lavrov said that Ukraine's postponement of negotiations with Russia will make it more difficult to reach an agreement in the future. In fact, such a deadlock has been formed, and the current embarrassment is that the United States clearly stated that Biden does not want to see Putin, so whether President Putin will still go to the G20 is really a difficult question, but in fact, what I sympathize most now is Foreign Minister Lavrov, and these are his lives.
