"Eastern Partnership" an Instrument of the West against Russia

Another batch of Western diplomatic revelations has been published by WikiLeaks, the famous brainchild of Julian Assange. This time the offered documents tell of a policy intended to separate Russia from its neighbors and allies of the former Soviet Union.

It turns out that the European Union program “Eastern Partnership” (which includes Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) is not at all aimed at the development of democratic and civil magnificence in the post-Soviet countries, as officially announced, but rather at setting them against Moscow. At the very least, American diplomats are fully discussing just such an interpretation of the program in correspondence with Washington. Even “bad boy” (from the Western point of view) Aleksandr Lukashenko is worthy of “leniency” if he has difficult relations with the Kremlin. And that is not the word of individual diplomats, but a behind-the-scenes decision on the allotment of millions of dollars to one country or another for their attachments to the Western “feed trough,” so that, God forbid, Moscow won’t get ahead. And even the “Nord Stream” here found itself the hostage of politics. Switzerland, for example (as it follows from materials on the website), before Georgian aggression against South Ossetia, governed itself on this matter by purely economic considerations. The new complaints from Switzerland appeared only after “consultations” with trans-oceanic friends.

All of this is reminiscent of the worst examples of Soviet propaganda, if it were not for one thing: No one blames Moscow, or even Assange and his comrades, for the reality of these documents is unrefuted by the U.S. State Department itself. Under loud slogans about the final end of the Cold War, the West continues its expansion to the east and to the borders with China with no intention of stopping.