Russia Banned from Munich Security Conference

by Stephen Lendman

On Friday, the Munich Security Conference began, all things Russia and Nazi-infested Ukraine its main focus.

Presidents, prime ministers and other officials from scores of nations are attending, including the Biden regime's Kamala Harris and interventionist Blinken.

Germany's delegation includes foreign minister Baerbock of we're at war on Russia infamy.

An array of unindicted war criminals include Biden regime officials, Baerbock, Britain's Rishi Sunak, France's Macron and US-installed NATO puppet Stoltenberg.

Ongoing from Friday through Sunday, no Russian officials were invited to attend for the first time since the 1990s.

At a press conference days earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said the following:

"We regret to say that in recent years, the conference has been increasingly transformed into such a transatlantic forum, losing its inclusiveness and objectivity."

"Interest in Moscow for this event dropped noticeably."

In February 2007, Vladimir Putin addressed the Munich International Conference on Security, stating the following:

"NATO put its frontline forces on our borders."

Its hostile actions are unrelated to "the modernization of the (war-making) alliance itself or with ensuring security in Europe."

"On the contrary, (they) represent a serious provocation that reduces the level of mutual trust."

"And we have a right to ask: against whom is this expansion intended?"

"And what happened to assurances (that) western (regimes) made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact?"

On May 27, 1997, Russia and the US signed the Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation.

The agreement "define(d) the goals and mechanism of consultation, cooperation, joint decision-making and joint action that constitute the core of the mutual relations between NATO and Russia."

It covers principles for establishing security throughout Europe.

Russia and NATO pledged to refrain from use of force, as well to respect the sovereignty, borders, and territorial integrity of signatory nations to the agreement.

It was agreed to settle disputes peacefully when arise in compliance with principles of mutual cooperation.

Yet nearly straightaway, the empire of lies and its Western vassals flagrantly breached what they agreed to.

Instead of mutual cooperation to assure peace and stability according to the rule of law, their ruling regimes have gone the other way.

In the run-up to US-dominated war on Russia, the collective West viewed the Russian Federation as an enemy for not bowing to the will of a higher power in Washington.

In 2007, Putin warned of the following, saying:

"Today we are witnessing an almost uncontained hyper use of force — military force — in international relations, force that is plunging the world into an abyss of permanent conflicts."

"We are seeing ever greater disdain for the basic principles of international law."

"No one feels safe. I want to emphasize this."

"No one feels safe! Because no one can feel that international law is like a stone wall that will protect them."

At yearend 2016, Putin said the following:

"We will never agree to be dragged into an arms race to squander resources that we cannot afford."

Russia will only maintain a level of defense required to protect the Motherland from aggression.

In 2014, the UN General Assembly adopted a Russian-Chinese resolution on No First Placement of Arms in Outer Space. 

A total of 124 countries agreed with its principles.

Yet hegemon USA, apartheid Israel, Georgia and Ukraine opposed it.

According to MGIMO University Professor, Alexey Bodberyozkin:

"Moscow's stance is simple and clear."

"All weapons must be barred from outer space."

"As long as there is no such resolution, research into them will proceed in Russia and" by the empire of lies and forever wars on invented enemies.

In his 2007 Munich Security Conference address, Putin said the following about anti-missile defense systems:

They "disturb us."

"Missiles with a range of about five to eight thousand km that really pose a threat to Europe do not exist in any of the so-called problem countries."

"And in the near future and prospects, this will not happen and it is not even foreseeable."

In response to what hegemon USA is doing on this issue, Russia will respond appropriately in self-defense.

Under Vladimir Putin's leadership, Russia vowed not to roll over for the US-dominated West, especially not throughout Eurasia.

Yet following undemocratic Dems' usurpation of power by election-rigging in 2020, the threat of nuclear war by miscalculation or design is greater than ever before because lunatics run the Washington asylum.

A Final Comment

On Friday, US-installed puppet Zelensky addressed the Munich Security Conference.

His customary litany of bald-faced Big Lies followed as ordered by his US master.

Ignoring Russia's legitimate response to years of aggression by Ukrainian Nazis against Donbass, he trampled on truth, saying:

"Ukraine is not going to be his last stop (sic)."

US/Western regimes support the scourge of Nazism infesting Ukraine.

Russia is an effective antidote to the menace it poses.

Without repeated tranches of military aid, the Nazi-infested regime and its greatly degraded military would have collapsed long ago.

Russia defeated its scourge straightaway after launching its liberating SMO.