Analyst of the British newspaper the Times, the Deputy Director of the Royal United services Institute for defence studies Jonathan Eyal in the material for publication was told that the diplomats in his country have forgotten how to work with Russia and in the assessment of the Ukrainian events showed complete incompetence.
He believes that once the threat of the arms race in the past, the Ministry of foreign Affairs of great Britain has ceased to be interested in Russia and it is played with diplomats cruel joke.
“No less than a decade it was obvious that relations between Russia and the West that something is not right, but in this regard nothing was done,” he said.
According to Eyal, the foreign Ministry of his country “faced with the atrophy of knowledge, the loss of collective memory”, when staged attacks on Moscow over the Crimea.
“Few people have understood us, as much historically Crimea means for Russia and how he is important to her from an emotional point of view. We didn’t realize how serious — and went too far,” said the analyst.
He also noted that the British authorities will need several years or even decades in order to find a competent diplomatic personnel.
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