https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1822333/
Published in Izvestia newspaper
Today, the Russian Armed Forces, together with the self-defence units of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, are delivering on the objectives of the special military operation with great resolve to put an end to the outrageous discrimination and genocide of the Russian people and eliminate direct threats to the security of the Russian Federation that the United States and its satellites have been creating on Ukrainian territory for years. While losing on the battlefield, the Ukrainian regime and its Western patrons have descended to staging bloody incidents to demonise our country in the eyes of the international community. We have already seen Bucha, Mariupol, Kramatorsk, and Kremenchug. The Russian Defence Ministry has been regularly issuing warnings, with facts in hand, about upcoming staged incidents and fakes.
There is a distinctive pattern that betrays the provocations staged by the West and its henchmen. In fact, they started long before the Ukrainian events.
Take 1999 – the village of Račak in Serbia’s Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. A group of OSCE inspectors arrived at the site where several dozen corpses dressed in civilian clothes were discovered. Without any investigation, the mission head declared the incident an act of genocide, even though making a conclusion of this kind was not part of the mandate issued to this international official. NATO immediately launched a military aggression against Yugoslavia, during which it intentionally destroyed a television centre, bridges, passenger trains and other civilian targets. Later, it was proved with conclusive evidence that the dead bodies were not civilians, but militants of the Kosovo Liberation Army, an illegal armed group, dressed in civilian clothes. But by that time the staged incident has already taken its toll, offering a pretext for the first illegal use of force against an OSCE member state since the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975. It is telling that the statement that triggered the bombings came from William Walker, a US citizen who headed the OSCE’s Kosovo Verification Mission. Separating Kosovo from Serbia by force and setting up Camp Bondsteel, the largest US military base in the Balkans, were the main outcomes of the aggression.
In 2003, there was the infamous performance by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in the UN Security Council with a vial containing white powder of some sort, which he said contained anthrax spores, alleging that it was produced in Iraq. Once again, the fake worked: the Anglo-Saxons and those who followed their lead went on to bomb Iraq, which has been struggling to fully recover its statehood ever since. Moreover, it did not take long before the fake was exposed with everyone admitting that Iraq did not have any biological weapons or any other kinds of WMDs. Later, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was one of the masterminds of the aggression, recognised that the whole affair was a fraud, saying that they “may have been wrong” or something like that. As for Colin Powell, he later tried to justify himself by claiming that he was misled by the underlying intelligence. Either way, this was yet another provocation that offered a pretext for delivering on the plan to destroy a sovereign nation.
There was also Libya in 2011. The drama had specifics of its own. The situation did not go as far as direct lies, like in Kosovo or Iraq, but NATO grossly distorted the UN Security Council resolution, which provided for a no-fly zone over Libya in order to “ground” Muammar Gaddafi’s air force. It did not fly to begin with. However, NATO started bombing the Libyan army units who were fighting terrorists. Muammar Gaddafi died a savage death, and nothing remains of the Libyan statehood. Efforts to put the country back together have yet to succeed, with a US representative once again in charge of the process, appointed by the UN Secretary General without any consultation with the UN Security Council. As part of this process, our Western colleagues have facilitated several intra-Libyan agreements on holding elections but none of them materialised. Illegal armed groups still reign supreme on Libyan territory, with most of them working closely with the West.
February 2014, Ukraine – the West, represented by the German, French, and Polish foreign ministers, de facto forced President Viktor Yanukovich into signing an agreement with the opposition to end the confrontation and promote a peaceful resolution of the intra-Ukrainian crisis by establishing a transitional national unity government and calling a snap election, to be held within a few months. This too turned out to be a fraud: the next morning, the opposition staged a coup guided as it was by anti-Russia, racist slogans. However, the Western guarantors did not even try to bring the opposition back to its senses. Furthermore, they switched immediately to encouraging the coup perpetrators in their policies against Russia and everything Russian, unleashing the war against their own people and bombing entire cities in the Donbass region just because people there refused to recognise the unconstitutional coup. For that, they labelled the people in Donbass terrorists, and once again the West was there to encourage them.
At this point, it is worth noting that, as it was soon revealed, the killing of protestors on the Maidan was also a staged incident, which the West blamed either on the Ukrainian security forces loyal to Viktor Yanukovich, or on the Russian special services. However, the radical members of the opposition were the ones who were behind this provocation, while working closely with the Western intelligence services. Once again, exposing these facts did not take long, but by that time they already did their job.
Efforts by Russia, Germany, and France paved the way to stopping the war between Kiev, Donetsk and Lugansk in February 2015 with the signing of the Minsk Agreements. Berlin and Paris played a proactive role here as well, proudly calling themselves as the guarantor countries. However, during the seven long years that followed, they did absolutely nothing to force Kiev to launch a direct dialogue with Donbass representatives for agreeing on matters including the special status, amnesty, restoring economic ties, and holding elections, as required by the Minsk Agreements which were approved unanimously by the UN Security Council. The Western leaders remained silent when Kiev took steps which directly violated the Minsk Agreements under both Petr Poroshenko and Vladimir Zelensky. Moreover, the German and the French leaders kept saying that Kiev cannot enter direct dialogue with the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, and blamed everything on Russia, although Russia is not mentioned in the Minsk agreements even once, while remaining basically the only country that kept pushing for the agreements to be implemented.
If anyone doubted that the Minsk Package was anything but yet another fake, Petr Poroshenko dispelled this myth by saying on June 17, 2022: “The Minsk Agreements did not mean anything to us, and we had no intention to carry them out… our goal was to remove the threat we faced… and win time in order to restore economic growth and rebuild the armed forces. We achieved this goal. Mission accomplished for the Minsk Agreements.” The people of Ukraine are still paying the price of this fake. For many years now, the West has been forcing them to accept an anti-Russian neo-Nazi regime. What a waste of energy for Olaf Scholz with his calls to force Russia to agree to an agreement guaranteeing Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. There already had been an agreement to this effect, the Minsk Package, and Berlin with Paris were the ones who derailed it by shielding Kiev in its refusal to abide by the document. The fake has been exposed – finita la commedia.
By the way, Vladimir Zelensky has been a worthy successor to Petr Poroshenko. During a campaign rally in early 2019, he was ready to kneel before him for the sake of stopping the war.
In December 2019, Zelensky got a chance to carry out the Minsk Agreements following the Normandy format summit in Paris. In the outcome document adopted at the highest level, the Ukrainian President undertook to resolve matters related to the special status of Donbass. Of course, he did not do anything, while Berlin and Paris once again covered up for him. The document and all the publicity accompanying its adoption turned out to be no more than a fake narrative promoted by Ukraine and the West to win some time for supplying more weapons to the Kiev regime, which follows Petr Poroshenko’s logic to the letter.
There was also Syria, with the 2013 agreement on eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles in a stage-by-stage process verified by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), for which it received the Nobel Peace Prize. After that, however, there were outrageous provocations in 2017 and 2018 staging the use of chemical weapons in Khan Shaykhun and Duma, a Damascus suburb. There was a video showing people calling themselves the White Helmets (a would-be humanitarian organisation which never showed up on territories controlled by the Syrian government) helping alleged poisoning victims, although no one had any protective clothing or gear. All attempts to force the OPCW Technical Secretariat to perform its duties in good faith and ensure a transparent investigation into these incidents, as required by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), failed. This, however, did not come as a surprise. The Western countries have long privatised the Technical Secretariat by having their representatives appointed to the key positions within this structure. They contributed to staging these incidents and used them as a pretext for US, British, and French airstrikes against Syria. Incidentally, they carried out these bombings just a day before a group of OPCW inspectors arrived there to investigate the incidents at Russia’s insistence, while the West did everything to prevent this deployment.
The West and the OPCW Technical Secretariat it controls demonstrated their ability to stage fake incidents with the would-be poisonings of the Skripals and Alexey Navalny. In both cases, Russia sent multiple requests to The Hague, London, Berlin, Paris, and Stockholm, all left without a reply, even though they fully conformed with the CWC provisions and required a response.
Other pending questions have to do with the Pentagon’s covert activities in Ukraine carried out through its Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The traces that the forces engaged in the special military operation have discovered in military-biological laboratories in the liberated territories of Donbass and adjacent areas clearly indicate direct violations of the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons (BTWC). We have presented the documents to Washington and to the UN Security Council. The procedure has been initiated under BTWC to demand explanations. Contrary to the facts, the US administration is trying to justify its actions by saying that all biological research in Ukraine was exclusively peaceful and civilian in nature – with no evidence of any of this.
In fact, the Pentagon’s military-biological activities around the world, especially in the post-Soviet countries, require the closest attention in light of the multiplying evidence of criminal experiments with the most dangerous pathogens in order to create biological weapons conducted under the guise of peaceful research.
I have already mentioned the staged “crimes” of the Donbass militia and participants in the Russian special military operation. There is one simple fact that clearly shows how much these accusations mean: having shown the “Bucha tragedy” to the world in early April 2022 (we have suspicions that the Anglo-Saxons had a hand in setting the stage for the show), the West and Kiev have not yet answered the very basic questions about whether the names of the dead were established and what post-mortem examinations showed. Just as in the above-described Skripals and Navalny cases, the propaganda production has premiered in the Western media, and now it’s time to sweep it all under the rug, brazen it out, because they have nothing to say.
This is the essence of the well-worn Western political algorithm – to concoct a fake story and ratchet up the hype as if it’s a universal catastrophe for a couple of days while blocking people’s access to alternative information or assessments, and when any facts do break through, they are simply ignored – at best mentioned on last pages of the news in small print. It is important to understand that this is not a harmless game in the media war – such productions are used as pretexts for very material actions such as punishing the “guilty” countries with sanctions, unleashing barbaric aggressions against them with hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties, as it happened, in particular, in Iraq and Libya. Or – as in the case of Ukraine – for using the country as expendable material in the Western proxy war against Russia. Moreover, NATO instructors and MLRS aimers are, apparently, already directing the actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and nationalist battalions on the ground.
I hope there are responsible politicians in Europe who are aware of the consequences. In this regard, it is noteworthy that no one in NATO or the EU tried to reprimand the German Air Force Commander, a general named Ingo Gerhartz, who got carried away higher than his rank and said NATO must be ready to use nuclear weapons. “Putin, do not try to compete with us,” he added. Europe’s silence suggests that it is complacently oblivious of Germany’s role in its history.
If we look at today’s events through a historical prism, the entire Ukrainian crisis appears as a “grand chess game” that follows a scenario earlier promoted by Zbigniew Brzezinski. All the good relations talk, the West’s proclaimed readiness to take into account the rights and interests of Russians who ended up in independent Ukraine or other post-Soviet countries after the collapse of the USSR turned out to be mere pretence. Even in the early 2000s, Washington and the European Union began to openly pressure Kiev to decide which side Ukraine was on, the West or Russia.
Ever since 2014, the West has been controlling, hands-on, the Russophobic regime it brought to power through a coup d’état. Putting Vladimir Zelensky in front of any international forum of any significance is also part of this travesty. He makes passionate speeches, but when he suddenly offers something reasonable, he gets a slap on the wrist, as it happened after the Istanbul round of Russian-Ukrainian talks. At the end of March, it seemed that light glimmered at the end of the tunnel, but Kiev was forced to back off, using, among other things, a frankly staged episode in Bucha. Washington, London and Brussels demanded that Kiev stopped negotiating with Russia until Ukraine achieved full military advantage (former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried especially hard, and many other Western politicians did too, still incumbent, although they have already proved just as inept).
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell’s statement about this war having to be “won on the battlefield” by Ukraine suggests that even diplomacy has lost its value as a tool in the European Union’s staged performance.
In a broader sense, it is curious to see how Europe, lined up by Washington on the anti-Russian front, has been hardest hit by the thoughtless sanctions, emptying its arsenals to supply weapons to Kiev (without even asking for a report on who will control them or where they go), and freeing up its market only to subsequently buy US military products and expensive American LNG instead of available Russian gas. Such trends, coupled with the de facto merger between the EU and NATO, make the continued talk about Europe’s “strategic autonomy” nothing more than a show. Everyone has already understood that the collective West’s foreign policy is a “one-man theatre.” Moreover, it is consistently seeking ever new theaters of military operations.
One element of the geopolitical gambit against Russia is granting the status of an eternal EU candidate country to Ukraine and Moldova, which, it seems, will also face an unenviable fate. Meanwhile, a PR campaign has been initiated by President of France Emmanuel Macron to promote the “European political community,” which offers no financial or economic benefits, but demands full compliance with the EU’s anti-Russia actions. The principle behind it is not either/or but “who is not with us is against us.” Emmanuel Macron explained the gist of the “community”: the EU will invite all European countries – “from Iceland to Ukraine” – to join it, but not Russia. I would like to stress that we are not eager to join, but the statement itself showcases the essence of this obviously confrontational and divisive new undertaking.
Ukraine, Moldova and other countries being courted by the EU today are destined to be extras in the games of the West. The United States, as the main producer, calls the tune and devises the storyline based on which Europe writes the anti-Russia screenplay. The actors are ready and possess the skills acquired during their tenure at the Kvartal 95 Studio: they will provide a voice-over for dramatic texts no worse than the now forgotten Greta Thunberg and play musical instruments, if needed. The actors are good: remember how convincing Vladimir Zelensky was in his role as a democrat in the Servant of the People: fighter against corruption and discrimination against Russians and for all the right things in general. Remember and compare it with his immediate transformation in his role as president. It is perfect Stanislavsky Method acting: banning the Russian language, education, media and culture. “If you feel like Russians, then go to Russia for the sake of your children and grandchildren.” Good advice. He called Donbass residents “species” rather than people. And this is what he said about the Nazi Azov battalion: “They are what they are. There is plenty of such people around here.” Even CNN was ashamed to leave this phrase in the interview.
This prompts a question: what will be the outcome of all these storylines? Staged incidents based on blood and agony are by no means fun but a display of a cynical policy in creating a new reality where all principles of the UN Charter and all norms of international law are attempted to be replaced with their “rules-based order” in an aspiration to perpetuate their dwindling domination in global affairs.
The games undertaken by the West in the OSCE after from end of the Cold War, where it considered itself a winner, had the most devastating consequences for the modern international relations. Having quickly broken their promises to the Soviet and Russian leadership on the non-expansion of NATO to the east, the United States and its allies nevertheless declared their commitment to building a unified space of security and cooperation in the Euro-Atlantic region. They formalised it at the top level with all OSCE members in 1999 and 2010 within the framework of a political obligation to ensure equal and inseparable security where no country will strengthen its security at the expense of others and no organisation will claim a dominating role in Europe. It soon became evident that NATO members do no keep their word and that their goal is the supremacy of the North-Atlantic Alliance. Even then we continued our diplomatic efforts, proposing to formalise the principle of equal and inseparable security in a legally binding agreement. We proposed this a number of times, the last one in December 2021, but received a flat denial in response. They told us directly: there will be no legal guarantees outside NATO. Which means that the support of the political documents approved at the OSCE summits turned out to be a cheap fake. And now NATO, driven by the United States, has gone even further: they want to dominate over the entire Asia-Pacific region in addition to the Euro-Atlantic. NATO members make no effort to conceal the target of their threats, and China’s leadership has already publicly declared its position regarding such neo-colonial ambitions. Beijing has already responded by citing the principle of indivisible security, declaring its support for applying it on a global scale to prevent any country from claiming its exclusivity. This approach fully coincides with Russia’s position. We will make consistent efforts to defend it together with our allies, strategic partners and many other like-minded countries.
The collective West should come back to Earth from the world of illusions. The staged incidents, no matter how long they go on, will not work. It is time for fair play based on the international law rather than cheating. The sooner everyone realises that there are no alternatives to objective historical processes where a multipolar world is formed based on respect for the principle of sovereign equality of states, fundamental for the UN Charter and the entire world order, the better.
If members of the western alliance are unable to live according to this principle, are not ready to build a truly universal architecture of equal security and cooperation, they should leave everyone alone, stop using threats and blackmail to recruit those who want to live on their own wits and acknowledge the right to freedom of choice by independent self-respecting countries. This is what democracy is all about, the real democracy, not one played out on a shabbily built political stage.
Russia is in the process of formalizing the crimes of NATO and these henchmen, they can no longer be stored as conspiracy theories.
Well a tribunal should be set up and those criminals indicted for their genocidal crimes.
I have a great respect of Mr. Lavrov, but enough of a beating of a dead horse. UN Charter is a dead. It is corrupted to the core, rendering it useless. Time has come to form a new body, on a free territory, on a new premises. Western institutions have no credibility left, and as such, represent the danger for the whole human kind.
Agreed. Repetitive speeches for years on end while continuing to sustain US/IMF global currency supporting this “hegemony” and “Empire of Lies” is ludicrous and a lie as well. The very limited “ruble for oil” for “unfriendly” countries is not even a pinprick. Until Russia/China completely dedollarize, leaving the global, especially “collective west” reeling and gasping to & fro, these well worn speeches garner only more silence.
The art of diplomacy is saying ‘nice doggy, nice doggy’ while slowly acquiring a large rock.
Lavrov is practising the Art of Diplomacy.
Shoigu is busy pointing the ‘large rock(s)’ in the appropriate direction(s) and providing the muscle.
Parallel institutions are already being formed but the process of dissolving or rendering meaningless the old ones has not yet started. Personally I prefer a clean and methodical Fall of Empire as opposed to one in which swirling mists of radioactive particles greet me at the door. Be patient, watch for the formations of new institutions (MIR/CIPS), watch their acceptance grow (MIR now in India).
Both Lavrov and Putin uphold the principles of the UN Charter. If the didn’t, they would be like NATO members, who can only pretend.
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED
to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and
to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and
to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and
to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,
AND FOR THESE ENDS
to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another as good neighbours, and to unite our strength to maintain international peace and security, and
to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest, and
to employ international machinery for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples,
NATO is committed to war, weapons and expansion, despite being a registered UN organization, ostensibly operating under the UN Charter.
NATO talks about human rights but the defilements of unnecessary war, like the Ukraine war, mean an end to human rights, in the name of security. Russian and Hungarian language rights in Ukraine need to be respected.
NATO couldn’t realistically talk about the UN Charter. Lavrov and Putin know it better. If NATO guaranteed demilitarized zones and neutrality under law instead of expanding missile threats on Russia’s border, there could be peace, except for Ukrainian racialism of course.
NATO could end the war so Ukraine could get “social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom”, as long as Ukraine did not exploit war further for more neonazi racialism.
NATO doesn’t mind the ethnic hatred against Russians in Ukraine, as bad neighbours,
NATO doesn’t have the mind or the strength to make peace. All it has is war, if it won’t make peace.
NATO promotes the use of armed force rather than recognizing Russia’s security concerns around a continuing threat of first strike by NATO and U.S. missiles on Russia’s borders in NATO proxy states which are in a MEDIA Russophobic mind meld with NATO.
NATO proposes weapons for Ukraine, and further threats to Russian security, regime change in Russia and there’s no proposal for international machines “for the promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples”. Most important is nuclear disarmament and disarmament in general under a true regime of international law, and not more bellicose regime change machinery and militarized proxy state machinery.
Both Lavrov and Putin see things this way. Shoigu defends Russia when international law and the UN. won’t because of faithless UN membership. As usual, the problem is not the law and the UN Charter. Fault is found with the people, not the covenant.
One of the things I hugely admire about Putin and Lavrov is their sincere, informed, and deep devotion to the principles of international law.
God bless them!
Yes, but smart to realize that the principles of international law is based on universal laws. We are seeing before out eyes the collapse of the American empire as it breaches all laws including its own.
Well said. The UN and all bodies and instruments that flow from it are aspirational in nature. It seeks to have parties to all these to aspire to be better and build a better world for all people and nation states. When some actors seek to confound and act in a duplicit nature the whole suffers. Lavrov, and by extension Russia, seek to continue to aspire to the ideals in all the UN bodies and charters, laws and organizational systems because they know it is the best way forward.
Actors that are behaving in bad faith for their own gains based on a zero sum Realist view of the world are at fault. Not the structure itself. While some States continue to push for the aspirations enshrined in the UN’s Charter and other bodies I have some hope that eventually rational minds will come to the fore and a world that the words aspire to can be realised.
If the UN is deemed a complete failure the only real option left on the table is another international conflict. Russian leaders and government officials are, at this present time, intelligent enough to understand that the next international conflict is one in which no surviving State, no matter how small or whether they are an active partner or not will survive in a condition we currently ‘enjoy’.
Russia’s Doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons is clear. Responding to a strike or existential threat to the Russian State. It is reasonable to expect other nation states who are nuclear armed would also be prepared to use these weapons in a similar situation. If it all goes to a direct confrontation and a conventional victory is unachieveable our world, even for all it’s flaws will be far less inhabitable than it is now.
The new and emerging regional organizations and alternative economic amd trade systems will hopefully put an end to the current economic coercion that forces some states representatives to cast votes in the UN against their national interests or views on intrernational matters will hopefylly begin to decline. In doing so some pf the UN bpdies will see more neutral individuals put in places of influence and responsibility.
So I hope the UN OWO, UN failed and others seeming to seek direct conflict will exscuse me for being very happy and quite content that Minister Lavrov, at the direction of the Russian leadership, continues his call to return to the UN and all its bodies and laws as it was aspired to be. While he and other states with influence request such I will continue to have some hope we all will see our way clear of this.
Yes, I am aware of how often the word hope pr hopeful, hopefylly is used here. Aspirations, seeking to be better in the fiture than now.
As civilians we can propose grand gestures, but Lavrov is a professional and understands that as frustrating as it may be, he needs to work within existing frameworks whenever possible to advance his country’s goals. The world has never been fair, and all human systems will be rife with deception and grift, but the game is the game.
Lavrov is right. But I think everyone is underestimating he propensity of Atlanticist elites and their ideological clerics in the corporate media class to escalate to nuclear confrontation.
“They should leave everyone alone,” Lavrov says. But they will not. They cannot. And even as Eurasia/EAEU/SCO/BRICS grow to form a peer rival block, the United States will long remain the most dangerous and capable military force in terms of global force projection. Do not underestimate how zealous and brainwashed by the American religion of exceptionalism the American leadership class is. American supremacy is a religion on par with imperial Japanese emperor worship. It cannot be extricated with economic defeat.
If Russia and China want to preserve a long multipolar era, at some point they will have to confront the United States directly on the battlefield. And it won’t be pretty for us all.
You are right. This is why the transition will have to be a long, inexorable grind, not a full-on confrontation. Just like the current SMO. It might take twenty years or more, but it had to start sometime. Lavrov understands.
Confronto só não ocorrerá se os EUA se desintegrarem antes.
Right. The one thing that defeats the U.S. military is a slow grinding war. Americans finally become war weary and hit the road. Vietnam Nam, Korea, Afghanistan…that’s the American pattern of defeat. It’s all quite stupid. A chronic inability to learn from mistakes. Hate to say it, but it is better than a nuclear war.
It’s the machine in Washington, the SES, the British Pilgrims society, the Federal banks, the CIA the brought and paid for politician’s, the military complex, the dark underground NASA, DARPA, FEMA and now the so called medical system sucking trillions from tax payers to destroy America and the world with it. It’s all a set up to bring in this new world order in, all world leaders are very aware of what is to come. Depopulation of the first order, all anyone has to do is read FEMA, DARPA, etc plans, medical patents, and realize humanity has no clue , years in the making , so evil that no one who has lived today a typical life would ever believe what is planned for all of humanity.
Not even the greatest minds, the most read and educated could, would ever believe what these , I call non-human entities have planned for humanity. This phoney medical pandemic should have been a wake up call for most, to my surprise most of the world embraced this staged pandemic, I guess 9/11 was for many the end of our freedoms, but for the majority they believed, and allowed their freedom’s to be taken to feel safe. It’s in our face, the lies, the made up science, planned out since 1994, its all in the patents, the propaganda is so ridiculous, I am just stunned at the inability of humanity to see this for what it is. Like the propaganda against Russia, since 1957 , Sputnik, nothing has changed, the evil empire, its all planned all scripted and what most humans do not see, it’s all a trap. We, humanity are the end goal, to kill off, destroy all that has been done, to change and control those who are allowed to live, these so called vaccines will kill off millions, and many more ways are planned that will keep killing millions more.
A person who kills a Eagle, gets prison time and thousands of dollars in fines, but to kill a human baby the mother is a hero, this movement should have awakened humanity years ago, for now today, killing a fetus is big business, the body parts sold, used in medications, put in your food, yes in your food. Its all there for you to see, what’s coming I am afraid will be unlike anything even a sifi movie could play out. The stage is set, the captured CDC, FDA will push forward a agenda that will destroy everything and took for granted, politician’s will be dictators who will help put in place the laws for your death..no one is safe , no one will get away, not even the politician’s.
Russia and China will be pushed into actions that no one wants to see, but there are too many humans and so few of these evil kings who rule over us, there must be war, its the plan. Read their books, read their plans, read the patents, look at the world falling apart, millions have died from just the vaccines, hospitals are killing as many as they can, in FEMAs directives doctors are now allowed to kill patients, the CDC is a private vaccine company, why don’t people know this..the election was stolen, period. Obama is serving his third term, look at what we have done and allowed, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We turned in our cable box many years ago, I wish the world would have done this one thing, then this ridiculous pandemic would never have their minds and souls.
I expect war, I am hoping it will be close to where I am so I do not need to be living through what is left,I am in Alaska so my chances are better than most to die first, I am resolved and too informed as to what awaits humanity, if we has a military, Washington would have been taken over and jails would be full..but we do not . Marshall law is coming and that is the final nail in America’s coffin, if Americans do not rise up and stop that, then it truly is over. Putin knows what is going on, he does not want this anymore than wedo.
This is all just an accurate account of recent history. No reasonable person could find anything to disagree with here. Lavrov is a superlative diplomat. Compare this with the petulant, hysterical, belligerent mendacity of Borrell, Truss, Blinken, Nuland and the rest.
Lavrov. Clear headed, factual, and convincing. The multipolar world is being formed in good earnest. It needs to be seen how the genocidal West will take its demotion. They are pure evil and will do whatever it takes to hang on to their rule based order. But Russia, China, and to some extent India, are formidable challengers of Anglo Saxon hegemonic order. The dice is clearly rolling now.
Wow! What an article. Put in one article the crimes of the collective West are indeed reprehensible. This evil must be eradicated. Multipolar world coming through as we speak. God Bless Russia
How in earth, the statesmen and women can be at so different level in east and west. Our so called leaders in the west are just clowns. I cant name a single leader in west who is to be respected while Putin, Lavrov and Zakharova among others are easy to understand, they know the rules of diplomacy. It is mindboggling to see how stupid the western politicians are. For example, our foreign minister in Finland Pekka Haavisto was so happy to boast that the border between Russia and Finland has been
normal although we are joining NATO. What a jerk! Finnish president Sauli Niinistö said that during his talk with Joe Biden, the US president promised all US support to Finland. Holy shit, should this make me feel happy and safe.
Not to mention the sociopath druggie, lantern-jawed “prime minister” Marin who is always partying or hiding (with a “suspected covid exposure” that happens with minute precision) when things get tough, which is pretty much all the time now.
Like Clint Eastwood said, life is tough, but it’s even tougher when you’re stupid. I would add that it’s tougher still when you’re an infantile narcissist whose only tools for navigating life are bullying others and throwing your toys out of the pram in a tantrum.
War crimes don’t expire and are judged at military courts, not civil ones; one kilometre of rope will solve most of Finland’s problems and one S-300 can keep all the “politicians” on the ground and in the country… suddenly those promised shekel-filled suitcases and mansions in exotic tax havens are so, so far.
There are /almost/ no “Statesmen” left in the Western circles of power.
The closest to a “Statesmen” there was lately was the businessmen in the Oval office. And even he was pushed out as “insane”.
In the asylum, the sane are the insane.
I fully agree with Mr. Lavrov’s analysis and his conclusions. Stop the NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine! Aim for the peace and honest cooperation with Russia! The current anti-Russian policy of the Western governments is insane.
Genocide of Russians wow that came out of nowhere, how come this was never a topic or even mentioned before?
It has been ongoing since 2014 with well over 14’000 dead. Where have you been ?
The Users’ new genocide, conducted over the last two years 20 million dead and counting …. the elephant in every room.
I assume the elephant to which you refer is a certain medical matter. If so, I agree that it’s genocide. But could you clue us in as to who the “Users” are? I’m unfamiliar with that term.
Law, Custom and decorum oblige a plaintiff in a dispute to outline his position prior to taking corrective action. Comrade Lavrov, and indeed his boss, are doing precisely that.
An example of this pro-forma genre (fragment) “…when a long
train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new
Guards for their future security. ”
We await the next stage of corrective action. Evidently this action is not going to be in diplomatic arena. We may expect a technical action set of greater vigor than that evidenced thus-far in SMO-404.
Lavrov is such a gentleman but he needs to look at the real world. The west has Hot Dog eating contests to see how many hot dogs a person can stuff into their bodies while watching children starve in Yeoman, Iraq Syria Africa etc
As long as remanentes of the Cold War, like the UN, just to mention the main one, still exist, with all due respect, its just wishful thinking on Lavrov’s part. Wishful thinking is just delusional thinking
At least with the existence of BRICS+ , we are going to the right direction. Best way to start to weaken the useless UN.
The US has launched WWIII, completely illegally, against the UN Charter and against the US Constitution. Biden and the US political class are criminals, including Obama who is still there in the wings. They are puppets controlled by the Deep State, which is a deeply hidden force, anti-American in it’s origin and operations. Watch out world.
I’ve encountered left leaning Biden loving democrats in the U.S. who think “Deep State” is some kind of new code word for anti-Semitism popular with the Trump supporting, white supremacists Americans. Similar to Qanon they think. How is it even possible to talk with such people? I guess it isn’t?
The best truthful articulate article written in a long long time. Sergei Lavrov is to be commended and has proven by his own words his true concern for truth and that he is committed in his dedication of his position as a statesmen for the good of his countries people and the humanity of the world. The so called West has no one like him I can trust and I live there.
What a fabulous summary of the litany of recent historical events perpetrated upon the world by the United States. I marvel at his command of the English language, even if he has a helping hand in writing this, there were two small typos, they forgot a ‘the’ before one statement and dropped a ‘t’ after no. This is a short list of US crimes against humanity that need to be Loudly and Often put before the world public, and shouted out until they cannot be ignored and become part of a growing world citizen consciousness. It is so wonderful to hear these Russians finally getting blunt with their language, blunt and to the point, something I have wanted to hear for many years now, but fully understand the grand Russian strategy of timeliness and having all their ducks in a row before they act or speak. Well them ducks are a quacking now ! LOL. Love it.
A great speech by a true Statesman. He left out one important example of US FF autocities: 911!.
In evolution it happens with some regularity that a certain branch of a species takes a totally wrong turn and then dies out. It must become extinct, because that branch not only gets in the way of the species but the entire evolution. Just like a wolf gnaws off its own leg if it gets stuck in a wolf trap. This wrong branch, the empire of lies, had better die out. And maybe the wolf should even lend a hand by gnawing off that stuck leg.
Mr Lavrov, don’t be the “Sad Bear.”
Be happy, Mother Russia is winning really, really big. I mean huge.
Everyone is watching and laughing. Well not everyone it’s called, Consequences !
Global Boris is gone, The German sausage gone by August. Brandon gone by November. The Frog forgotten and the Stolenburger gets a job in a broke, Norwegian bank.
If Europe wants Christmas presents this year from St Nicholas pay for ‘um in Roubles. (and smile)
speech should be carved in stone. cast into metal…set up in Red Square as a monument to this moment .
It’s with shame to be Australian living amongst people who are just not just ignorant of their ignorance, but who are lost in a righteous belief that their standard of living imbued with western enlightenment is but the natural order. For Earth’s sake let reality dawn.
For LOTS of ignorant folks in the west that dawn of reality is going to be as chilling as those cold showers Germans are going to be taking this winter.
Would you please try instead of “former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried especially hard,”
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The real government power structure hiding behind former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tried especially hard. . Since patsy puppet Bojo never tried anything hard and is a nobody.
An amazing and rare experience to hear an adult speak politics. In the US all we have are squabbling children herded by corporate nannies.
Lavrov, when only the best will do. God willing, someone on the depraved, demented, profit-driven Western side that matters will listen to this man.
I like reading transcriptions of Lavrov’s speeches – a man has sharp mind, wits, honor and judgement.
Wow, he finally said it and called out all the NATO dalse flags since 1999. Great speech, Mr. Lavrov.
Yes but far too late as usual…russia is in reaction never in action…sad because reaction has a far bigger cost.
But he and Putin still think 9/11 was perpetrated by muslims?
OSCE – Organisation for Structured Conflict in Europe and not Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
If we understand this then everyone knows where we stand.
until and unless the US and NATO served a bloody nose punch by the Russians, Russian people, its infrastructure, its resources would be decimated by the NATO, More HIMARS would be coming,
Hmm, Russian casualties manpower are 1 : 50 and equipment destroyed 1: 100.
US-NATO are running out of resources.
I wonder what a HIMAR cost in kilowatt hrs? Must be getting more expensive by the day. The choice of manufacturing more WMD’s comes at the expense of EU citizens freezing this winter.
Strange that Mr Lavrov has not mentioned one huge provocation – the shoot down of MH-17. I wonder why. This omission is not accidental, and must have some deeper meaning, protecting someone?
If Lavrov listed all the examples, it would fill several books.
The only quibble I have with Mr. Lavrov’s speech is this statement “…Moldova, which, it seems, will also face an unenviable fate”. Moldova, minus Transnistria could and likely will re-unite with Romania and thus will reform the historical territory of Moldova, which was ripped in two by the Czarist regime in 1812. What is good for the goose (Crimea, Novorossiya re-uniting with Russia), is good for the gander (re-unification of Romanians in Moldova and Romania) under the same polity. You can keep the Snake Island but I personally am in two minds about Northern Bukovina and Budjak.
By the same logic, Transylvania should revert to Hungary. Run a plebiscite in Kolozsvár, and see what happens. Based on the Ukraine experience, Lavrov is on the dot with Moldova – to the last Moldovan it easily may become.
Nope. There was a plebiscit in 1918 in Transylvania and now the majority of population, being Romanian, would vote to be in Romania. Same like Crimeans. Cluj has a majority Romanian population.
And Republic of Moldova might re-join or not, but it will be up to them. And the Russian wave coming towards them might help them decide sooner rather than later.
Lavrov is not on the dot about Moldova, which is a territory with 70-75% Romanian speakers, and which has been ripped from the whole of Moldova twice, without being asked.
The “Russian wave” you project will be coming as soon as Moldova is used as proxy to probe Transnistria. Russians promised to burn Romania to ashes if necessary, and if Moldova gets played, it may share the fate of Ukraine. That was Lavrov´s drift which you seem to dismiss.
In connection with the Trianon, the only plebiscite I am aware of was that of Sopron; the 1918 event you refer to was the Great National Meeting. Romania has 1.7 million Hungarians, and they are often adamant about their ethnicity, with the Szeklers being a special case altogether.
There will be no Romanian/Moldovan willing to risk their skin for Transnistria. And in wanting to reunite, Moldova would need to renounce Transnistria, because Romania cannot bring in NATO a border dispute with Russia.
It is true that the Moldovan Cabinet is mostly ethnic Romanians, but why would Ro need a burden & basket-case such as that? Moldova does make some good wine, but then so does Ro..
The rest of the agricultural potential of the newest & poorest EU members was neutered by so much red-tape from Brussels; leaving the Balkans only suitable for clandestine weapons trafficking..
And how many basket cases areas has Italy, or UK, or US, or other countries. Just because Moldova is more agricultural (which is not a bad thing in itself, being able to feed yourself) doesn’t mean is a bad thing. There is more self reliance in rural areas.
Several years ago, 2015 I think, the resolution entitled “Combating glorification of Nazism, Neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” was approved by the U.N.’s human rights committee with 131 in favor, 3 against with 48 abstentions.
For the second year in a row, Canada and the U.S. have voted no and Europe has abstained on a resolution opposing racism and glorification of Nazism. Oh, Ukraine also voted no. Most of the ones who abstained were EU members who supported Hitler during WWII. This should not be a surprise to anyone, as the USA and Canada were sanctuaries for fleeing murderers from Europe after WWII.
The U.S. claim was that they disagreed with the resolution as it would curb freedom of expression, this while they manipulate Google, pass laws to ban academic freedom, control the press, censor academics and U-tube. The censorship only applied to those who dared expose Western crimes (e.g. Assange, Snowden, Manning and many others) while they, as Lavrov states, lied and manipulated information to justify Western attacks in the Balkans, Latin America, Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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The ceasefire after WWII between USSR (today: Russia) and Germany is in danger. (There never was a formal peace treaty after 1945!).
Since NATO’s Art.5 does not come into force when the aggressor is the NATO country itself, any German involvement against Russia would be a breach of the 1945 ceasefire, and consequently, a STATE OF WAR would again exist between Germany and Russia.
NATO would most likely NOT get involved, and militarily weak Germany would have no other option than to immediately CAPITULATE.
Which would bring the specter of war tribunals upon Germany’s leadership.
comments?
Stalin offered German reunification in 1953(?) on the condition of neutrality. Gorbachev was foolish enough to grant German reunification without demanding neutrality. Perhaps Putin can liberate Germany again to make it a neutral country.
Never let cynicism and pessimism into your soul. This column proves beyond any doubt that there are unbeatable, powerful forces out there who know and embrace truth, dignity, fairness and justice on a global scale, and are willing to take the gloves off when necessary.
All of the provocations and staged events laid out in Minister Lavrov’s column are predicated on the assumption that the west is militarily invincible, and is using such provocations as a temporary excuse/justification/cover to enact its military actions, which will of course succeed.
The problem with such a thinking is that it was formulated in the 90s, when history had all but ended, and the west was the only military uberpower left on the scene. Since this is obviously no longer the case, what remains today are meaningless false flag provocations that fall flat upon initiation, and only serve to momentarily fool the western populations, to no effect whatsoever.
In essence, thanks to the rise of the Eurasian military/economic powerhouse, the provocations mentioned in the column have gone from being the percussion caps in a 2 ton artillery piece to nothing more than a fart in the wind. Designed for momentary annoyance and confusion, and nothing more.
Mother Russia is fighting against globohomo which is Bidens America . Very very few Americans support Biden and most I know are backing Vlad and his forces of righteousness . We who love America hate Biden and his perverted administration . Removed. Mod.
@Robehr: While I agree completely with the first sentence of your comment, I believe there are far more morons in the US that still support the pResident in Chief than you think, although, that number is declining rapidly. It saddens me that at this stage of events in this country, (US) that many of my work colleagues are staunch “Putin-Bad” adherents, stuck in “Merica”‘ the indispensable nation mindset. And these are educated, highly skilled people in a highly technical industry.
“Oh the pain, the pain”
In regards to your last sentence, it reaffirms the notion that education doesn’t always equate to intelligence.
Your words tickle my ears but don’t ring true. I live in a very red county of a fairly red state, but amongst the people I know, contempt for Biden does not translate into support for Putin in the least. Most folks around here think Putin is the epitome of evil. Even those who watch Tucker Carlson every night and want the U.S. to quit sending weapons to Ukraine nevertheless feel obliged to preface every comment with the tiresome “Putin is a thug/dictator/murderer, BUT…”
They always have to get in that dig at Putin. And I don’t think it’s just virtue-signaling; I think the media have done such an effective propaganda job over the last 20 years that they really do believe it. They don’t know anything different.
“—I think the media have done such an effective propaganda job over the last 20 years that they really do believe it.”
You’re kidding youself if you believe its just Propaganda over the past 20 years. Look back at uSA history. Since 1950 odd (72 years !) they have been been denigrating Russia. Look up the Mc Carthy years when witch hunts were TV specials against anyone suspected of being a Communist =Russia!
American have been programmed for 70 odd years minimum to hate & fear Russia. That’s a fact.
‘Berlin and Paris played a proactive role here as well, proudly calling themselves as the guarantor countries…they did absolutely nothing to force kiev to launch a direct dialogue with Donbass representatives’ – TBF, they could not. The cursed usg wouldn’t allow it, just like the smm stooges of the osce could – or rather would – do nothing either, by that I mean be fair & unbiased, as they were also spies for kiev, because again, the usg controls the osce too.
Likewise regarding NS2, the usg controls berlin too, not to say that scholz etc are not also willing partners – at least somewhat – so anything involving the usg is cursed wrt to world affairs.
Since Gorbachev allowed German reunification and since the Moscow-Berlin-Paris axis opposed the US war in Iraq, there has been a pro-Russian segment in the entire German political spectrum. From the far-right AfD to the far-left Die Linke, from the Social Democrats in the tradition of Willy Brandt to industry-friendly politicians among the Christian Democrats; they all wanted closer relations with Russia.
However, in the current climate of war hysteria, they have had to keep their head down because saying anything critical about Ukraine would be political suicide. Germans are forced to act against their own interests because Germany is a US vassal. To change that, Germany would have to leave Nato. It would probably take WW3 for that to happen.
People keep on saying that Germany was free to oppose the US war in Iraq. They don’t understand that the Ukraine war is the punishment for German disobedience. That Ukraine would defeat Russia always was unlikely. The objective of separating Germany and Russia for generations, however, has already been achieved, perhaps at the cost of destroying Germany economically.
Schröder, I think, would not have been a wimp like scholz, if he had been Chancellor instead now.
What happened in ukraine is because of the yank PNAC, the cursed usg using it against Russia like a thorn in the flesh. The deluded, arrogant yanks (in govt & think tanks etc) thought that, not only would they be the only world superpower, they thought they could be that for the whole of this century. Consequently, of course, that could never be: pride goes before a fall.
There are many people in the world who do not yet realise that multi-polarity is inevitable, and necessary to the planet’s survival.
Therefore, it is logical for Mr. Lavrov to continue spelling out the reasons for the non-western nations moving away from the corrupt, flawed, and criminal economics of the dying Anglo/USA empire.
As more people come to understand that there is a viable alternative to the present system, the more likely it is that people will claim their sovereignty over their hostile governments, and thus, perhaps avoid nuclear annihilation.
Excellent short summary. Want to bookmark and read occasionally, as the the west’s false flags are so numerous it is haed to keep track of them/ He probably left off MH17 because Joe Biden as head of the national security council would have been the man who signed off on it. The VP has full knowledge of covert ops so if things go south, the President can pardon him, With Biden as President, it is hard to talk seriously about MH17 without accusing Biden of murder.
9/11, Covid statistics faked to justify lockdowns, JFK assassination, any number of mass shootings that don’t make sense and weren’t investigated, moon landing, 2020 election, lol.
“Ignore the man behind the curtain.” – The Wizard
How about the piles of baHutu skulls, and their beheaded corpses floating down rivers (killed by the US/UK/Belgian/Canadian sponsored Ugandans) in 1994? See “In Praise of Blood” by Judy Rever, Random House/Penguin.
I realise that more good than evil arises from the Uganda-Russia relationship, but one would think, given how the Ugandan installed genocidal Rwandan dictatorship is a puppet of the US, and is estranged from its former Ugandan master, that one could hope for some honesty regarding Rwanda 1990-1994 and beyond.
The truest and most hardhitting document I ever read…
What next… only God and the Kremlin knows.
God bless Russia, Putin and any and everyone who support them.
I second that.
Minister Lavrov superbly summarizes the deception and violence perpetrated by the chosen ones and their highly-paid shills, an abomination that Russia especially and China are struggling to defeat while preserving diplomatic standards. The latter must succeed for the peace and benefit of all humanity.
Great compendium regarding ‘best of’ unconscionable acts of cowardly violence committed by US empire.
One quick add if I remember is that the ‘chemical attack’ in Syria was done by government a day before a peace conference, Assad and Middle East nations had spent 10 months organizing.
In fact that week the Saudis finally agreed to join the peace talks scheduled in Europe. Of course the US and it’s colony Israel were decidedly not invited.
Let’s not go into why all those governments thought that Assad up to that point was a partner for peace for the last 10 months only to be suddenly shocked that he turned out to be a one history’s worst monster.
I believe the Russians are not strategically correct in continuing the fiction that European NATO are simply run by puppets and traitors. Doing so implies that if NATO countries were not under the US thumb they would do otherwise, like uphold international law?, reject US self-declarations of being King of Kings on Planet Jerusalem? or would have somehow acted on Minsk agreements?
Believing that somehow France and Germany were somehow ‘coerced’ by the US really does beg for clarification to at least offer some examples of that coercion. We know that the EU press in translation thinks nothing of stove piping the most degenerate and ridiculous inventions (like one listed above) without any attempt investigate.
The EU press is as noxious as the American one in revealing in their own devotion to all things Western Church, historic amnesia about their own ongoing genocidal actions against the world as a right or ever acknowledging the active role of either being intelligence operatives (HELLO! Radio Free Europe??you would think press guilds would have barked??) or simply plagiarizing whatever insanely compromised ‘story’ calculated to do nothing more than destroy credibility of the press itself or its claimed legitimacy in censoring and slandering domestic political actors for clearly partisan favoritism of unelected foreign policy makers like the EU.
If the US press foreign policy pronouncements didn’t invalidate itself over 9/11 (and continues to undermine itself in the world by pretending that US strategic military proxies are those terrorists) it invalidated itself domestically over ‘Russian influencing’ which is a devil canard played by democrats since the Russian revolution. Prior to that Democrat single party dictatorship always since the their Revolution have used populist Christian revivalism as a vector to constantly purge any source of ‘Satan’, political or otherwise)
Kennedy was head of HUAC in 1956 and explicitly told a press more than happy stovepipe partisan democrat hate by saying that Dr King and his ‘Ns’ were being riled up the ComSyms, Russians, Khrushchev visit and UN. Truly depressing to find out so many Americans that one admired are truly disgusting in their very deliberate roles as US propagandists and government agents, like Chomsky.
The Chinese don’t play that game and do hold Australia, Japan etc responsible for their actions regardless of puppetry. Admittedly it is easier for the Chinese to do this given the US is white supremacist and so it’s characterization of Asians generally as a subhuman animal not fit for life and the women are completely brainwashed by men and the men are completely controlled by their atheist communist governments. It does make it easier to convince (and isolate) Zone B Asian political actors from the true position of walking human garbage like Five Eyes who become irredeemable.
Absence of evidence does not always equate to evidence of absence. Just saying.
If only America had strong great men like President Putin, Mr. Lavrov, and the other Russian key people we would not be in this mess we are all part of now. Those who rule America, and yes a majority are of a certain DNA, they are really a dangerous group. Seriously the entire world is threatened by them and their desire to dominate.
Listening to npr today doing a segment on Jan 6th and of course it was one of them, Greenberg or something like that, but my point is she really was laying it on thick painting the former president and his supporters as a real threat. Sickening her a d her kind are the true threat. And sadly they rule for now.
I’m still praying for Russia, President Putin and all of Russia and friends. Just my opinion, Russia is the world’s hope right now, the one to be the light of the world and to lead the world out of falling into further evil and I sanity.
Be strong and dont be weak. Have courage and conviction. Don’t be a Pollyanna. There’s absolutes in this world. Let foolish women and foolish men believe al, is fine and God loves everyone. Always remember what what the Word of God teaches. God is pleased with righteousness. False compassion is just that, false and from the pit of hell fire.
Keep in the faith, take time to talk to so e knowing you may just save them from that hell fire. Speak truth and work hard so good will prevail.
God bless Russia and al, God fearing people.
The timing of this magnificent essay — only 4 days after John Bolton bragged publicly about all his experience plotting coups around the world — could not be more perfect.
Bravo FM Lavrov.
The only omission of note in his speech is the MH17 provocation which was blamed on Russia even though the shooting occurred in Ukrainian territory and airspace.
It would all be laughable if it weren’t true.
Lavrov is blunt here. Too blunt.
It only confirms one thing – as far as Russia is concerned, there is no space for diplomacy anymore. All that was was “wiped” byt the “West” by now.
Armistice – maybe. Peace agreement – unlikely.
As far as the West is concerned, the way to have true Peace is to redefine War as “Peace”. Welcom to 1984.
If Russia is “losing” this war, then why is it still going on — after six months and after Biden spent $60 billion in ammo? As usual, the propaganda we in America receive here nightly on our TV screens just doesn’t add up.
“neo-Nazi regime”
Finally they found the right term. It’s no Nazi regime. That was Germany in the 30s and 40s and to call the present ones Nazis is almost to decrease the victory of the 1945 Russians. Neo-Nazi, okay. They already have instilled the wrong term “Nazi”, though, which is even counterproductive (as all false things!). They should keep the new term.
“What a waste of energy for Olaf Scholz with his calls to force Russia to agree to an agreement guaranteeing Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. There already had been an agreement to this effect, the Minsk Package, and Berlin with Paris were the ones who derailed it by shielding Kiev in its refusal to abide by the document.”
Deep point. Yeah, they had before what they now would like to achieve through negotiations (a Minsk negotiation deal) ! This spells incompetence, etc. Errors have to be admitted! You can’t keep digging yourself in deeper and deeper. To admit an error is to become a better man (normally speaking).
FM Lavrov at one point presented something akin to a puppet theory, with an actor being the puppet, considered with all due respect:
“The United States, as the main producer, calls the tune and devises the storyline based on which Europe writes the anti-Russia screenplay. The actors are ready and possess the skills acquired during their tenure at the Kvartal 95 Studio: they will provide a voice-over for dramatic texts no worse than the now forgotten Greta Thunberg and play musical instruments, if needed. The actors are good: remember how convincing Vladimir Zelensky was in his role as a democrat in the Servant of the People: fighter against corruption and discrimination against Russians and for all the right things in general. Remember and compare it with his immediate transformation in his role as president. It is perfect Stanislavsky Method acting: banning the Russian language, education, media and culture.” –
My point is that a proper evidence or example is missing. The “actor” there is the puppet. Some readers require more proof for specific instances; others may think that “once a puppet always a puppet”, but such simplifications may be wrong to the former, who require firm proof, not feelings, premonitions, instincts, wishes (pleasure), and even self-aggrandizement which can happen when people have all figured out already.
If the info. presented does not prove puppetry at all, it will strain belief. He compares what Zelensky said in Servant of the People with what he later said as president, which was/is diametrically opposed to what he said in that show – but it was a show! To accept the “actor-puppet” (emphasis mine), I’d like an example(s) from Zelensky the candidate for president in 2019, and/or any other serious example. Without something real like that, and with only a literal acting sketch as the example, it implies that this is the best example he can mention, and then a right conclusion is that the actor-puppet theory presented lacked support. A few of those poor examples in a row will tend to discredit the picture, as the reader may then be made to wonder if the candidate actually said things similar to what he later said or did as president. The point is that any actor/puppet accusation or excuse needs to be well-supported to be believed.
I keep thinking about the Edgar Cayce premonition that Russia would save the world??? In order to try to understand what is going on on this planet we need to take into consideration how “The Others” might be involved!!