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By: Tadhg Nagel
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The Russian Foreign Minister is stirring up sentiment against the West.
He sees the USA’s “global dominance” at the end.
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Moscow - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held his annual press conference on Thursday morning.
At the Russian Foreign Ministry on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow, he launched an all-out strike against the West.
At the same time, he praised the “special military operation” in Ukraine and called for the unity of the Russian people.
As expected, the war in Ukraine was the dominant theme.
The Russian Foreign Minister is already assessing this as a success for his country.
After all, the “special military operation” purified the Russian people and cleansed them of elements that do not correspond to Russia’s culture and history.
The result is a “healthier” Russia.
Although some have left the country, the “overwhelming majority” of Russian society “has come together, gathered around a common idea,” said Lavrov.
One saw “examples of real heroic deeds, of the self-sacrifice of the fighters at the front and of the solidarity of their families.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the annual press conference.
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The West is to blame for the Ukraine war - the country is now threatened with a “similar fate” to Afghanistan
Lavrov also had something to say about possible peace talks in Ukraine.
It is clear that Ukraine will not decide when it wants to start serious talks because “it is clear and obvious that Washington is in charge.”
However, before talking about negotiations, Ukraine must leave behind anti-Russian “racism”, “Nazi ideology” and its “striving for NATO membership”.
However, the West is “not interested in negotiations” anyway.
According to Lavrov, the USA and other Western states did not show the “slightest interest” in ending the war and ignored Russian concerns.
Instead, they “contributed to the escalation of the Ukraine crisis,” which brought “additional strategic risks and dangers.”
The country is threatened with a “similar fate” to Afghanistan, where the USA withdrew after 20 years of war without establishing a democracy or achieving any other positive things.
Ukraine “only relies on its masters”, but does not know that they “only think of themselves”.
“Aggressive and illegitimate” campaign against Moscow - Lavrov warns of nuclear escalation
In the 1990s, people still had illusions “that the West would welcome us with open arms,” said the Foreign Minister.
Now they have disappeared.
One cannot trust the West, after all it “only wants one thing - to live at the expense of others and to be smarter than everyone else.”
He is also leading an “aggressive and illegitimate” campaign against Moscow.
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According to the Russian Foreign Minister, however, the USA has long since passed the peak of its power.
“They ruled the world for 500 years” and had “no competition” except during the Soviet era.
This led to a complacency in which the USA became accustomed to “being the hegemon”.
They also “dismantled” arms controls “step by step” and created the “hostile” environment in which Russia withdrew from the New START Treaty.
Every day there is “more talk about a possible collision between the nuclear powers”.
At the same time, there are “less and less deterrent factors, limiting factors.”
Lavrov sees the end of US “global dominance” - and this has met with open ears
Although the USA and the West will continue to try to maintain their “global dominance”, this will soon be over.
There are now “emerging and strengthening centers of economic growth, financial power and political influence” that are “outperforming the United States and other Western countries in their development.”
Lavrov did not say which countries these were.
But he referred to Russia's relations with China, which, in his opinion, are "in the best phase of their history."
In general, Lavrov spent a large part of the conference “speaking badly about the West,” said Diana Magnay, Moscow correspondent for the US portal
Sky News
.
Although this has been heard many times, Magnay continued, “it has found open ears in many countries that also don’t like Western dominance.”
(tpn)