Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday warned US Secretary of State John Kerry against Washington taking "hasty" action or imposing sanctions over Ukraine, in what has escalated into the biggest East-West crisis since the Cold War.
"Lavrov warned against hasty and unthought-through steps capable of causing harm to Russian-US relations, especially sanctions that will inevitably have a boomerang effect against the US itself," it added.
When Ukraine renounced its nuclear weapons in 1994 (nearly 2000 nuclear warheads), Russia, the United States and Britain signed the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances guaranteeing the Ukraine territorial integrity.
Now the U.S. and UK government as so-called guarantors of Ukrainian territorial integrity only imitate "action steps" to support Ukraine. The proposed sanctions against only several Russian politics and military officers are laughable and only provoke Russia to proceed.
In reality none of so-called guarantors of Ukrainian territorial integrity are ready to provide real help. They do not want to confront Russian monster with real sanctions because they realize that such actions may destroy quiet life of "civilized" world in their countries. But that is a short term perspective!
If Russian troops are not stopped now, they will occupy all Ukrainian territories. Moreover, sooner or later U.S., UK, Germany, Italy, France and rest of "civilized" Europe will discover pro-Russian demonstrations in Georgia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Poland, and Baltic countries (this countries historically was a part of Russian Empire) and then their government will be overthrown and another self-proclaimed leader will cry for Russian troops to invade to save them from “fascists” and radicals. And this will be only the first step. The next step will be recreation of the Empire of evil - USSR 2. Very soon all European countries will be under threat of Russian military invasion. I'm afraid European politicians are afraid even to analyze such possibility. Such "blind" approach helps to realize Mr. Putin's plan on Ukraine annexation.
What U.S., UK, European Union can do now? Immediately help Ukraine with troops and weapons able to stop Russians. Frightening? Yes, but imagine that similar scenario will be implemented soon in other Europe countries.
The United States and the European Union can also use REAL economic sanctions to the Russian Federation that are needed to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine:
- denial of visas for ALL Russians traveling to Europe and USA;
- freezing of bank accounts of ALL Russian state-owned corporations;
- stop the construction of the South Stream;
- Apply the 15 billon euros fine (10 percent of annual revenues) against Gazprom for breaching EU antitrust legislation, European Union's antitrust investigation shows that Gazprom abused its position as the dominant supplier in eight central and eastern European nations, restricting the free flow of gas and unfairly pegging gas prices to oil prices in long-term contracts), although antitrust investigation is finished but CORRUPTED European politics put 15 billion sanctions on halt;
- expel Russian Federation as military aggressor from OECD organization, European parliament and G8 with returning to G7 format;
- put a proposition to the assembly of United Nation to expel Russian Federation as military aggressor;
- freezing negotiations on establishing a free trade zone with Russia.
But if unprecedented military and diplomatic betrayal of Ukraine continue. It will be a direct signal to Iran, Israel, North Korea, India, Japan, Brazil and other countries that international law is not working anymore and so-called guarantees is just a diplomatic trick, no one can be safe without its own nuclear weapons arsenal or at least chemical and bacteriological weapons. U.S. and UK diplomatic tricks now open the “Pandora box” - the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in the world. You, the so-called "guarantors" and verbal “defenders” will be responsible for this and millions deaths after.
