Washington blames the escalation around Ukraine on Moscow, while noting the need to leave the "door for diplomacy" open. The US administration compared Russia to a "fox on the roof of a chicken coop." The Kremlin objected and gave its own analogy. More details - in the material. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki believes that it is impossible to put an equal sign between how Russia acts on the world stage and how the United States behaves. On Wednesday, February 2, TASS reports.
She was asked whether Washington considers mutual de-escalation as a way out of the situation around Ukraine.
“In what sense is de-escalation? What do you mean by mutual de-escalation? We are working with NATO countries to make them feel safe at the moment. NATO is a defensive alliance. It's not the same thing. It seems to me that we need to be careful when comparing them, ”said Psaki.
“We know who the fox is”
She also drew an analogy previously used by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, comparing Russia to a fox and Ukraine to chickens."Secretary Blinken has made similar analogies in the past: when a fox yells from the roof of a chicken coop that it is afraid of chickens, which is, in fact, exactly what they do, then this fear cannot be spoken of as a statement of fact," - explained the press secretary of the American president.
“We know who the fox is in this case. We saw the pulling of forces to the border with Ukraine, we saw that they sent troops to Belarus, to the other border, ”added Psaki.
The United States intends to continue to defend the view that it is up to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization itself to decide who can join it, she concluded.
H4 "Too big bear" / h4 Press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov was surprised by the words of Blinken and Psaki, who compared Russia with the fox in the smokeshief.
“Still, traditionally, Russia has always been compared to a bear. With all his will, he cannot climb onto the roof of the chicken coop - he is too big and heavy for this, ”says a Kremlin spokesman.
However, he added that "some figurative comparisons" are not included in his functions.
H4 Signals about the "invasion" / h4 Recently, in the West countries, as well as in Ukraine, applications are heard about the possible "invasion of Russia to the Ukrainian territory. Peskov called such information empty and unfounded escalation of tension. He repeatedly stressed that the Russian Federation does not pose a threat to anyone.
On January 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the West for using rhetoric about an allegedly imminent invasion. “Signals have even come from respected heads of state who are already openly saying in non-diplomatic language that tomorrow we will have a war.
In England, Germany, France, Lithuania, the media give the impression that we are at war, that we have troops moving along the roads, that we are mobilizing. And this is not so. We don't need this panic," he said.
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