Dejevsky: West should recognize the global error in relations with Russia
"Catastrophic misunderstanding" between Russia and the West drew the whole of Europe in Ukrainian conflict and provoked the current dangerous confrontation with Russia - the verdict of the Department of the house of lords of the British Parliament in EU Affairs is well founded and justified, according to journalist Mary Dejevsky.
in the report of the Department of the house of lords of the British Parliament in EU Affairs, published at the beginning of the anniversary of the coup in Ukraine, see the criticisms of the British Foreign Ministry, which was not made due efforts for a diplomatic settlement of the situation. The events of late February 2014 in Ukraine are perceived Russia and most Western countries are totally different - in the Russian Federation believe that was the overthrow of the legitimately elected President, in the European Union Developments in Ukraine lauded as a " glorious people's revolution against the corrupt regime ", says the Creator of the article.
Encouraging the desire of Ukraine to European integration, the West was not able to evaluate not only possible sharp reaction from Russia, but how you perceive Ukraine as if opened before her European way. Europe badly realized that in Ukraine the agreement on free trade area for the most part perceived as a 1st step to EU membership, as long as long as thousands of protesters took to the streets of Kiev, waving EU flags and demanding European future, emphasizes Mary Dejevsky.
The source of such errors is an absolute shortage of British and other European foreign Ministers in many geopolitical issues and the lack of professionals in the desired structures. It is impossible not to agree with the opinion of the British MP Rory Stewart, who believes that the UK has not learned any lessons from past failures, and reform of the foreign office on the eve of 2000-ies developed employees of the office " management skills ", but deprived of their competence in the historical, cultural and General diplomatic issues, the journalist writes.
After the collapse of the USSR the quality of European expertise in the field of geopolitics and diplomacy significantly deteriorated, but different geopolitical challenges still exist and continuously urge the West to respond. From diplomats do not want to " predict the future ", they have a wide and expert understanding of the geopolitical issues that as long as the Europeans do not have any relative in Russia and Ukraine, nor relative to other global challenges, says Mary Dejevsky.