A gift to Serbian speakers….RT Balkans interview

https://odysee.com/@RTBalkan:1/intervju-gilber-doktorou-eu-nato-rusija:e

I doubt that many members of the Community are aware of the existence of this Belgrade-based operation of RT. Allow me then to share my experience with them as interviewee a week ago.

The 28-minute chat covered a lot of ground. It opened with examination of the rancorous deterioration of relations between Moscow and Baku, with particular attention to which outsiders may be aggravating the situation for their own purposes. Here I speak of the French as possible meddlers, given their interests in creating difficulties for the Russians in the Caucasus by stirring EU ambitions among the Armenian leadership and the concurrent patching up of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the expense of Russian interests in the region. However, on reconsideration, looking at Paris’s strained relations with Azerbaijan’s closest ally, Turkey, it seems less likely that the French have a role in Russia’s problems with Azerbaijan today. Indeed, it is more likely that Turkey itself is pouring oil on the fires of discord, since it serves their own purposes to reduce Russia’s presence in the Caucasus and raise their own.

We moved on to other key issues of the day, in particular the Russia-Ukraine war and the new aggressiveness of Moscow in staging massive aerial attacks on Ukrainian cities. From there we moved to the questions surrounding European rearmament and the NATO summit’s decision to raise the military budgets of all Member States to 5% of GDP by 2035. We also talked a good deal about Trump’s efforts to extricate the USA from the Ukraine war to better free its hands to pursue policies in the Middle East and against China.

Best wishes to the Serbian speakers among you.