The Russian foreign minister reveals how Moscow views its confrontation with the West
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed Russia’s standoff with the US and other Western nations in an interview with RT on Friday, and outlined the direction in which Moscow is moving.
He said the West had encouraged Ukraine to turn into an “anti-Russia,” and now its leader is trying to goad US President Joe Biden into going to war for Kiev.
Lavrov argued that Moscow is being subjected to “info-terrorism” by its opponents, who have dropped all pretence of adhering to the values they preach. Tensions will calm down, but Russia will no longer be under any illusion that it would be welcomed as an equal in the West, the foreign minister added.
Here are some of the highlights from the interview
‘Just months ago, Ukraine’s Zelensky told ethnic Russians to go to Russia’ remarks made by Zelensky in August, in which he told people living in the breakaway region of Donbass to go to Russia if they considered themselves to be Russian. Moscow recognized the two rebel republics as sovereign states days before attacking Ukrainian troops.“anti-Russia,” as President Vladimir Putin described it in late February. The West encouraged this process, Moscow believes.
Zelensky goading Biden into war “But there are much less responsible politicians in the United States, who are being agitated by the Ukrainian lobby and are just driven by Russophobic feelings. Many of them are in Congress,” he said.“fair game” for an attack, Lavrov warned.
US ‘brainwashes’ kids as it wages information war against Russia “indecent.” “We know the tricks that have been used by Western countries to manipulate the media. We understood long ago that there was no such thing as independent Western media,” he said.“It’s a war [against Russia] that involved the methods of informational terrorism, there is doubt about this,” Lavrov said. That was one of the reasons why Putin branded the US-led world order an “empire of lies,” he added.
US biolabs should be scrutinized “The Americans some years ago decided that it was too dangerous to do [such research] on their own soil. So, they moved all these threatening and dangerous activities to other countries,” he said.
‘We didn’t shut the door, but no illusions remain about the West’ “There are players who would never accept a global village under the American sheriff. China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico. I am sure those countries do not want to be in a position where Uncle Sam orders them to do something and they say ‘Yes, sir,’” he said, adding that the same can be said about Russia.“We are not closing the door on the West, they are doing so. But when they come back to their senses, and when this door is reopened… we will be going into cooperation with them knowing very well that we cannot be sure that they are reliable,” he explained.
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