Russia (bbabo.net), The countries of the so-called Weimar Triangle - the political platform of France, Germany and Poland formed in the early 1990s - advocated the start of a substantive dialogue with Russia on European security issues. Meeting in Berlin, Chancellor F. Olaf Scholz, as well as the Presidents of France and Poland, Emmanuel Macron and Andrzej Duda, with an eye to the growing nervousness in Europe among their voters due to the crisis around Ukraine, stated "readiness for constructive participation in substantive and result-oriented" negotiations with Moscow on issues of mutual interest.
Thus, already the two Eurogrand states, as well as the "Young European" country that has joined them, assert with reservations that NATO's current plans for eastward expansion, at least, require serious discussion with Russia.
It was with this idea that President Macron came to Moscow, where he announced "the need to build new mechanisms that would ensure stability in the region" while maintaining "fundamental principles." As you know, the President of the Fifth Republic preferred not to talk about his creative ideas about "new mechanisms" - they are currently being discussed behind closed doors through diplomatic channels and, according to the Russian leadership, are "quite possible in order to lay them at the basis of further joint steps. One can only assume that, among other things, the subject of discussion will be a long-term moratorium on NATO expansion or securing the status of a neutral country for Ukraine.
The old "fundamental principles", predictably, include the strict commitment of Paris, Berlin and Warsaw to the goals and objectives of the North Atlantic Alliance. This was reflected in the communiqué issued following the meeting between Macron, Scholz and Duda: “the three countries will continue to closely coordinate their actions with partners in the EU and allies in NATO in order to ensure peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area” and “calling on Russia to contribute to detente situation on the Ukrainian border.
And yet the ice broke. Having traveled around the world a lot in recent days (Macron has been to Moscow and Kiev, Scholz to Washington, and Duda to Beijing), the leaders of the Franco-German-Polish trio seem to have agreed that Russia's security interests should not be ignored any longer. "We are all united by one goal - to maintain peace in Europe through diplomacy, clear signals and readiness to act together ... Our common task is to prevent war in Europe," Deutsche Welle quoted Scholz as saying after the meeting of the "triangle" in Berlin.
Since the beginning of the year, the French, Germans and Poles have been actively intimidated by their own media with the notorious "war" over the allegedly impending Russian invasion of Ukraine. Judging by the latest measurements of public opinion, the results of such psychotic hysteria have been extremely controversial. Thus, according to a sociological survey conducted by the European Council for International Policy (ECFR) at the end of January among 5.5 thousand EU citizens, the majority of respondents are now convinced that Russia will invade Ukraine in 2022. At the same time, about 60 percent of the respondents assign the duty to protect the Independent to NATO and the EU, and about 50 percent individually to the United States, Germany or France.
The leaders of France, Germany and Poland seem to have agreed that Russia's security interests cannot continue to be ignored
Neither Berlin nor Paris, of course, can satisfy the latter. After all, according to the same opinion poll, the French and Germans are the least willing in Europe to take on the burden of solidarity and the risks of such a conflict, including refugee flows, soaring energy prices and economic problems. The opinion of their own voters is of great importance for Emmanuel Macron - the presidential elections in France will be held next April. The current owner of the Elysee Palace, of course, knows about such sentiments of the electorate. Olaf Scholz also does not intend to harm the key interests of his own country. As for Andrzej Duda, according to polls, 65 percent of Poles believe that their country should come to the aid of Kiev in case of war. What such militant moods can lead the Eastern European republic to, it seems, has reached the leadership in Warsaw. "We must find a solution to avoid war," Duda said. "I think we can do it."
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