24.01.2022, Moscow.
The UK has been playing a number of major games against Russia trying to create at its eastern wing an armed group of states, military expert and editor of the Arsenal Otechestva journal Aleksey Leonkov said on January 24 in an interview with a correspondent of the Rossa Primavera News Agency.
According to Leonkov, the UK is a leader in intelligence, while “the US intelligence has not been really good recently.” The alliance that is currently discussed is “an attempt of a major project, which was called Intermarium.”
The project implies uniting in one territory the Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Finland, almost up to Turkey. Turkey, however, is not included. The expert noted that, although this is believed to be a Polish project, of which General Piłsudski dreamt, in fact the UK is behind it.
Also, “there was an even more interesting project, Trimarium, which would unite the states having access to the Baltic, the Black, and the Adriatic seas.” The project appeared in 2018 in Bucharest. The alliance appeared after the Three Seas Initiative summit, and it was approved in Kiev. It included countries of the Warsaw Treaty and countries that used to be part of the USSR. “Further, these states were to be united to make a buffer filled with arms to confine Russia,” the expert noted.
Leonkov noted that the project is led by the UK, which, unlike the US, has been conducting major games like this for several centuries. “It is driven by various collusions and provocations,” he noted. In a game like this, “they usually consolidate certain forces and obviously aim them against Russia.” As an example, he mentioned the Greater Turan, which has been a long-term project of the UK.
The expert expressed confidence that, as NATO has turned out to be unprepared to war, the idea is now to “throw against Russia its former allies within the bloc and the territory, i.e. the countries that were part of the Russian Empire and the Warsaw Treaty.” This is a “brilliant” solution, because Russia spent its money and energy on these countries, and now they will rest on their laurels.
On June 4, 2015, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) published a report The Russian Challenge saying that Russia refused to acknowledge the outcome of the cold war. In order to maintain the world order that established after the disintegration of the USSR, the Institute suggests that active support should be initiated for the countries that used to be parts of the USSR, necessary reforms in these countries should be performed, and mechanisms of direct communication with the Russian population should be established to prepare a change of the political regime in order to reduce Russia’s political influence.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
