Ana Palacio, at one time headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain, considers, Moscow and Washington have exchanged places in world politics. While the role of Russia recently increased, the importance of the White House falls and it begins to take positions.
The former head of the Spanish foreign minister says, that steps, recently taken by Ukraine, serve the cause of the revival of relations between Russia and the West.
According to Palacio, The United States has become a destructive factor in world politics. Moscow is, commented Ana Palacio Article editions Project Syndicate, It becomes really influential player, and with its strategic power to be reckoned with.
Europe will have to remember the new sources of Russian forces in the formation of its own diplomatic strategy.
– claims the former head of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
One striking example of the change of roles between the two superpowers Palacio sees the situation with an attack on a major oil refinery in Saudi Arabia. As the helplessness of the US position, she led the angry 'Tweets' Trump, that, in fact, Washington became the only reaction. Moscow is, in its turn, marked willingness to be a potential source of stability in the region.
In the same time, journalists and leading opinion former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt, who believes, that the general Russian elite sees no other strategic choice, but to turn to the West at some point.
