Commemorative events on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the date of the beginning of World War I are taking place in Europe these days. Presidents of France and Germany François Hollande and Joachim Gauck laid the first stone of a "Memorial to the Great War" at a local military cemetery in Alsace, and the president of Russia Vladimir Putin called for lessons to be learned from those events. The tragedy of that war "recalls the consequences of the aggression and selfishness, the excessive ambitions of the heads of state and political elites taking precedence over common sense … It is good to remember it today," Putin tells.The head of the Russian legislature Sergey Naryshkin is also in solidarity with him: "Global threats have changed since 1914, however many deep factors of opposition, primarily unavailability for dialogue, remain, unfortunately, now. Not to mention neo-fascist trends and new terrible actions based on Nazism - how differently to explain the tragedy in Odessa on May 2 this year, in which dozens of people were burnt alive?"According to Naryshkin, in the present world "there is no opposition of empires , but a policy of control in relation to our country and geopolitical intrigues on easing it didn't disappear, it seems. It is precisely here where the true reasons for reproducing the methods of the "cold war" are, also any introductions of sanctions and "blacklists" … Probably, some western leaders, and first of all over the ocean, think themselves judges when they randomly appoint guilt and define a responsibility measure for whole countries and peoples, and it doesn't confuse them that similar questions are absolutely outside their national jurisdiction".In modern Europe,like a hundred years ago, there are also other disturbing tendencies. It is represented to Naryshkin that "many people still treat the bloody conflict in Ukraine in a detached way, as if a military threat is not near their states, but somewhere on other planet, or judge events too tendentiously, without any aspiration to penetrate the true nature of the Ukrainian crisis, still avoiding objective and public assessments of the present leaders of this state as incapable, and maybe not wishing to unite the country".The speaker of the State Duma can't find answers to what these internal and external forces actually want, why they don't go the logical and tested way via searching for consensus in Ukrainian society, why escalate military operations, throwing the regular army into a fight and declaring new stages of mobilization. "The violence in relation to its own citizens, eventually, will be spill over - the logic of the war has already brought the world to the brink."
Commemorative events on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the date of the beginning of World War I are taking place in Europe these days. Presidents of France and Germany François Hollande and Joachim Gauck laid the first stone of a "Memorial to the Great War" at a local military cemetery in Alsace, and the president of Russia Vladimir Putin called for lessons to be learned from those events. The tragedy of that war "recalls the consequences of the aggression and selfishness, the excessive ambitions of the heads of state and political elites taking precedence over common sense … It is good to remember it today," Putin tells.
The head of the Russian legislature Sergey Naryshkin is also in solidarity with him: "Global threats have changed since 1914, however many deep factors of opposition, primarily unavailability for dialogue, remain, unfortunately, now. Not to mention neo-fascist trends and new terrible actions based on Nazism - how differently to explain the tragedy in Odessa on May 2 this year, in which dozens of people were burnt alive?"
According to Naryshkin, in the present world "there is no opposition of empires , but a policy of control in relation to our country and geopolitical intrigues on easing it didn't disappear, it seems. It is precisely here where the true reasons for reproducing the methods of the "cold war" are, also any introductions of sanctions and "blacklists" … Probably, some western leaders, and first of all over the ocean, think themselves judges when they randomly appoint guilt and define a responsibility measure for whole countries and peoples, and it doesn't confuse them that similar questions are absolutely outside their national jurisdiction".
In modern Europe,like a hundred years ago, there are also other disturbing tendencies. It is represented to Naryshkin that "many people still treat the bloody conflict in Ukraine in a detached way, as if a military threat is not near their states, but somewhere on other planet, or judge events too tendentiously, without any aspiration to penetrate the true nature of the Ukrainian crisis, still avoiding objective and public assessments of the present leaders of this state as incapable, and maybe not wishing to unite the country".
The speaker of the State Duma can't find answers to what these internal and external forces actually want, why they don't go the logical and tested way via searching for consensus in Ukrainian society, why escalate military operations, throwing the regular army into a fight and declaring new stages of mobilization. "The violence in relation to its own citizens, eventually, will be spill over - the logic of the war has already brought the world to the brink."
