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May says Britain open to 'different relationship' with Russia

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to the media as she arrives at the European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium October 18, 2018. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May will say on Monday Britain is "open to a different relationship" with Russia if Moscow takes a new path and stops "attacks" that undermine international treaties and security.

 

Just a year ago, May used her annual speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet to accuse Moscow of military aggression and of meddling in elections, some of her strongest criticism even before the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Salisbury.

 

This year, she will tell London's financial centre that the action taken since - including the largest ever coordinated expulsion of Russian intelligence officers - has deepened her belief in a "collective response" to such threats.

 

"We will continue to show our willingness to act, as a community of nations, to stand up for the rules around the world," May will say, according to excerpts of her speech.

 

Describing evolving threats, May will say the past year, including Salisbury, has "shown that while the challenge is real, so is the collective resolve of likeminded partners to defend our values, our democracies, and our people."

 

"But, as I also said a year ago, this is not the relationship with Russia that we want ... We remain open to a different relationship - one where Russia desists from these attacks that undermine international treaties and international security," she will say.

 

"And we hope that the Russian state chooses to take this path. If it does, we will respond in kind."

 

May has said often that Britain's decision to leave the European Union does not mean a retreat into isolationism, and her words again seem aimed at underlining London's desire to play a weighty role in the world.

 

But with no mention of Brexit in the speech excerpts, she may be hoping to avoid going into too much detail of Britain's negotiations to leave the EU, which have split her cabinet, her Conservative Party and Britain's parliament.

 

(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-11-12

[Proboscis]

This is a bit like a case of spousal abuse where the abused party says they are open to starting over if the other party is open to change but where there is no evidence of any change by the abuser.

[Somtamnication]

Yep, good idea. Trump is pushing his allies away. Trump wants Europe to wean itself from the US? Ok!! France is doing it, now it is UK's turn.

 

Bye bye Americans. Thanks for the help in WW2, etc. Much appreciated, but now it is a different world.

[Pilotman]

As usual she is talking balls. Russia will  never change its attitude and bully boy tactics, it's ingrained in the culture and the political class.  Just read the history books, they have been paranoid for hundreds of years. This woman really needs to go away and stay in her garden. 

[Baerboxer]

1 hour ago, Proboscis said:

This is a bit like a case of spousal abuse where the abused party says they are open to starting over if the other party is open to change but where there is no evidence of any change by the abuser.

 

Interesting simile. Is there any real evidence in the public domain that proves Russia is actually guilty of all these various accusations?

[Ulic]

1 hour ago, Pilotman said:

As usual she is talking balls. Russia will  never change its attitude and bully boy tactics, it's ingrained in the culture and the political class.  Just read the history books, they have been paranoid for hundreds of years. This woman really needs to go away and stay in her garden. 

Agree 100%. Russia is like China. Promise anything to the UK to get Hong Kong back then renege on the agreement. Promise to open up its markets, but decades later the west is still waiting. Russia will promise anything to get what it wants, and maybe even partially deliver. Then it inches back to its previous actions, keeping the concession benefits. 

[Brunolem]

1 hour ago, Pilotman said:

As usual she is talking balls. Russia will  never change its attitude and bully boy tactics, it's ingrained in the culture and the political class.  Just read the history books, they have been paranoid for hundreds of years. This woman really needs to go away and stay in her garden. 

Which history books?

The British sure have their hands clean and can give lessons to the rest of the world.

At some point, they had the largest empire ever, and only a handful of countries on the world map have never been conquered, occupied or involved in a war with the Brits.

Other empires throughout recent History include France, Spain, .

Portugal and even tiny Netherlands, but not Russia.

 

Russia used the opportunity provided by the end of WWII to annex a number of neighboring countries, but that doesn't qualify as empire building in the usual sense.

 

As for the bully boys tactics... hooliganism was not invented in Saint Pertersburg...

[asiamaster]

7 hours ago, Somtamnication said:

Yep, good idea. Trump is pushing his allies away. Trump wants Europe to wean itself from the US? Ok!! France is doing it, now it is UK's turn.

 

Bye bye Americans. Thanks for the help in WW2, etc. Much appreciated, but now it is a different world.

Welcome to the New Bipolar World.

The US is self sufficient  energy wise. And so is the other block (Russia & China) Europe and UK are not.

The only way for UK to survive after Brexit is to "team up" with the US. 

Germany for sure will side with Russia, possibly also Italy & France. There is a major rift ahead within the EU.

[Brunolem]

22 minutes ago, asiamaster said:

Welcome to the New Bipolar World.

The US is self sufficient  energy wise. And so is the other block (Russia & China) Europe and UK are not.

The only way for UK to survive after Brexit is to "team up" with the US. 

Germany for sure will side with Russia, possibly also Italy & France. There is a major rift ahead within the EU.

Difficult to predict where this will all go...

 

Yet, it is sad, not to mention totally irresponsible to build the geopolitical future on the basis of oil and fossil fuels energy in general, when the main objective of each nation should be to get rid of this poison as fast as possible!

 

Instead, in the years to come, we are more likely to see countries going at war over the last remnants of oil.

 

And by the way, the US is still a major importer, far from being self sufficient, and by the mid 20s the shale oil will be all gone, leaving behind a trail of massive pollution and hundreds of billions in unpayable debts...