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At Iceland, Blinken has given a “wish list” to Lavrov — North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan — and apparently sidestepped the explosive issue of Ukraine and the Crimea, leaving it, perhaps, to Biden and Putin. The US expectations are: Moscow should not side with Beijing over North Korea to undermine the US-led alliance system in the Far East; Moscow should give a free hand to the US to “tame” Iran; Moscow should not be a spoiler in Afghanistan and Central Asia vis-a-vis continued American security presence on the borders of Xinjiang.
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Meanwhile, the Ukrainian army continues to redeploy heavy weapons, including to the southern zone of the front, near Mariupol, as shown in this video. It should be noted that OSCE cars are passing the convoy, which means that the international organization is aware of this massive redeployment on the Ukrainian side.
It is a bad idea for Washington to give its partners the impression that they have a blank to go to war and expect American forces to come to the rescue if the fighting goes poorly.
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“There was no annexation, there is no need to recognise it. It is just necessary to acknowledge that Crimea rejoined Russia and that Crimea has quite long been a region of the Russian Federation, thank God”, the Kremlin spokesman continued.
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