cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/141729
Reuters heavily editorialized a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry by removing context and carefully selecting words to imply Russia wants a cold war. Reuters if often viewed as bias-free and factual by non Marxists.
Compare the following from Reuters:
Russia calls for return to ‘peaceful co-existence’ with U.S. like during Cold War -Interfax
March 8 (Reuters) - Russia and the United States should return to the principle of “peaceful co-existence” like during the Cold War, the Interfax news agency cited the Russian foreign ministry as saying on Tuesday.
The foreign ministry added that it was open to honest and mutually respectful dialogue with the United States and that hope remained that normalcy in relations between the two countries could be restored, Interfax reported.
To the original Interfax:
Moscow ready for dialogue with U.S., revival of principle of peaceful coexistence possible - Russian Foreign Ministry
MOSCOW. March 8 (Interfax) - Moscow is ready for an honest and mutually respectful dialogue with the United States and retains hope that relations with Washington, D.C., would return to normal, Alexander Darchiyev, director of the North America Department at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said.
“We are open for an honest and mutually respectful dialogue to the same extent as the U.S. will be ready for it. Perhaps, it would do well to remember the well-forgotten principle that worked during the Cold War, peaceful coexistence, despite the values and ideals separating us which must not be forced on each other,” Darchiyev told Interfax.
“And the proverbial ‘rule-based order’ alongside the ‘progressive’ norms rejecting the traditional morals also must not be forced upon us,” the diplomat said.
“If we proceed from this understanding of the basis of bilateral relations in light of Russia and the U.S.'s special responsibility for the fate of the world as nuclear superpowers, we retain hope that normalcy in relations between our countries will come back,” he said.
“But it, of course, demands the reciprocal movement of both parties. I would like to reiterate that we are ready for such reciprocity,” Darchiyev said.