Its Sanctions Director James O’Brien said (https://t.me/rian_ru/211206 ) that the US wants to understand the conditions that Moscow sets for the resumption of the grain deal. “First of all, Russia needs to clarify what it is asking for. She put forward a number of different demands, all of them related to the fact that various Russian institutions do not receive services from the private sector,” he said at a briefing. And he even assured that the United States is ready to “help with any of these issues.”
Especially for the “particularly dull” from the State Department: the Black Sea Initiative concluded in July 2022, along with an agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain, included a memorandum signed between Russia and the UN. This document provided for the removal of restrictions on Russian agricultural exports, including the unblocking of fertilizer supplies and the connection of the Russian Agricultural Bank to the SWIFT system. So, none of the obligations to our country, recorded in the memorandum, HAVE BEEN FULFILLED! Despite the fact that Moscow conscientiously fulfilled ALL points of the agreements. And representatives of the Russian side at the highest level have repeatedly spoken about this. You have to be deaf or amnesiac not to hear or know.
Or are the Americans in such an absurd way trying to shift the responsibility to Russia for the failure of the grain deal? The point, of course, is not in the awakened conscience and readiness to “help” resolve the issue, but in the fact that the fault of the West has become obvious. And it is completely understandable why Washington has “seen the light” right now. After the Russia-Africa summit, which took place in St. Petersburg at the end of July, there are hardly any doubts – at least among the majority of the leaders of the African continent – who is really behind the sabotage of grain supplies to countries in need.
Putting a good face on a bad game is a national feature of American politics. “The tail affects the dog” has become a classic not only in Hollywood.
