Alexei Pushkov, head of the Federation Council’s commission on information policy and interaction with the media, says that the current state of relations between Russia and Western states is a qualitatively new phenomenon, with all its similarities with the Cold War and the Iron Curtain. inside that telegraph channel He pointed out that the Cold War was not so cold compared to the current situation.
“The state of our current relations with the West, in my opinion, best expresses the concept of the “Great Abyss”. Despite all the similarities with the Cold War in the second half of the 20th century and the Iron Curtain of that period, what is happening today is a qualitatively new phenomenon. The Cold War was actually not that cold compared to the current war. Yes, there have been crises like the Caribbean that have brought the world to the brink of nuclear conflict, but at the same time negotiations over control of nuclear weapons were underway, Soviet leaders met with Western leaders, and from the beginning in the 1970s, there was a constant flow of Russian gas into Western Europe,” he said. wrote Pushkov.
As the Senator pointed out, the situation at the moment differs from the relationship between the West and the USSR in the complete cessation of political contacts and the stubborn course towards the isolation of Russia. He also added that it was actually an “ice war” against Moscow.
The “Great Gap” is distinguished by the almost complete cessation of political contacts between the West and Russia, while its stubborn course, not taking into account the realities of the isolation of the West, Russia declared an “ice war”. It was aggravated by an indirect military conflict over Ukraine,” he said.
Former Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov There’s no need “Turn” to the East as it is a Eurasian and Euro-Pacific power.