The intense situation around Ukraine between Russia and NATO is unlikely to ease, as it is almost impossible that NATO will accept the security guarantee proposed by Moscow due to entrenched hostility to Russia, Chinese analysts said, adding that the US-led bloc will not give up expansion to the east, and Russia will definitely take action to retaliate.
They noted that although China hopes the two sides can resolve the situation peacefully, the two sides are unlikely to reach a new agreement without any friction and conflict, and that if negotiations break down, at least some regional conflicts may break out.
Russia will engage in "creating counter threats" if NATO turns down the Russian proposals for security guarantees, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said on Solovyov Live YouTube channel on Saturday, TASS reported on Saturday.
"We are making clear that we are ready to talk about switching over from a military or a military-technical scenario to a political process" that will strengthen the security of all countries in the area of the OCSE, Euro-Atlantic and Eurasia, he said. "If that doesn't work out, we signaled to them [NATO] that will also move over to creating counter threats, but it will then be too late to ask us why we made these decisions and why we deployed these systems."
The Europeans must think about the prospect of turning the continent into a field of military confrontation, he said.
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Putin wants the Ukrain so he can feed his people, with Crimea he got the water access he needed, with the eastern Ukrain he'll have the fertile land to grow wheat, and with China behind him his horns just grew bigger. Europe should be very afraid, this time this Soviet isn't interested in control of land and people, he wants ownership, and he doesn't care how many people have to die for the rest to fall in line. With Covid we see how easy to cause the kind of fear that makes people do as they're told!