Radosław Sikorski upbraids Moscow for being “incapable of living in peace” with its neighbors following a series of incursions into NATO airspace.
Russia shouldn’t complain at the United Nations if its missiles or aircraft are shot down after entering NATO airspace, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski warned Moscow on Monday.
Sikorski was speaking at an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council in New York. The summit was convened after three Russian military jets entered Estonian airspace for 12 minutes on Sept. 19 before being repelled by Italian F-35s representing NATO.
“I have only one request to the Russian government: If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don’t come here to whine about it,” Sikorski said. “You have been warned.”
Not to be outdone, Sikorski sent a further barb Moscow’s way in New York: “We know you don’t care for international law, and you are incapable of living in peace with your neighbors. Your insane nationalism contains a lust for domination that will not cease until you realize that the age of empires is over and that your empire will not be rebuilt.”
Why? China’s not operating an expansionist military. Who would they even start it with?
Russia’s been feuding with its neighbors over it’s western border for… centuries.
Hard to say how things will go with Trump as president but Vietnam, Communist Vietnam, was well on their way to being Allies with the US over Chinese expansionist policy.
Pundits have been promising a Vietnamese alignment with the US since the 90s.
We send our people over. The Vietnamese diplomatic core is always very polite and accommodating. A thousand excited Op-Eds burst from their eggs. Nothing happens.
They’ve engaged with China (most notably over the BRI, where they trail their neighbors Laos and Cambodia substantially) in similar fashion.
Trump’s abrasive and obnoxious new cabinet hasn’t improved anything. But the losses - in this instance - are heavily overstated.
Pissing off Modi’s India was a much bigger deal, by comparison.
Well firstly Tibet would probably disagree, but perhaps Taiwan, the USA, anybody in the South China Sea, on the Indian border…
China’s rhetoric has been very clear for decades, further expansion is going to be pursued. Whether that’s semi-peaceful like cracking down on Hong Kong, or direct invasion - it’s a question of ‘when’, not ‘if’.
Hopefully no impending major conflicts could provide them a helpful smokescreen to make moves under, while potential adversaries are tied-up and unable to project power…
You can take that up with the Tang Dynasty. Tibet’s been a part of China longer than Delaware has been a part of the United States.
They’ve been screaming pacifism and globalism from the rooftops since Nixon visited.
Hong Kong wasn’t peaceful. The protests erupted with the killing of two municipal police officers. It was the Chinese J6.
And I encourage you to find out why they were protesting. A Taiwanese national had fled to Hong Kong after murdering his pregnant girlfriend. Chinese authorities were extraditing the suspect back to Taiwan, when student protests began in opposition to the extradition process.
They haven’t been a part since their independence in 1913. You can take it up with the Qing Dynasty.
They have also been screaming colonialism in Africa for a couple of decades.
They said semi-peaceful in the quote.
Also, Taiwan wasn’t a part of China during that protest. So their extradition was illegal. What happened before does not matter. China had no say in the matter, yet invaded anyway.
How semi-peaceful is a double homicide?
Both the Taiwanese government and the Chinese government disagree. Hell, the US disagreed. They piled on with the killings nonetheless, because the protesters sucked up to Donald Trump.
When Russian politicians do this, we call it manipulation. Strange that Hong Kong politicos don’t get the same consideration.