The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrovsent a message to the West this Wednesday from his appearance in the Russian Duma: “In recent years, the course of Washington and its European satellites has reached a point of no return“. He himself opined that the current objective of the United States is the “containment of Russia long term“and, far from being self-critical, he accused Western countries” of being the “responsible for the deterioration of relations between Moscow and kyiv“. In 2014 there was a fracture between the two Slavic countries, with the occupation of crimea and Moscow’s support for the Donbas rebelswhich between 2014 and 2022 were fighting against the Ukrainian Regular Army.
Lavrov elaborated on this fracture during his speech by noting that Russia “never had allies in the West.” “Although we were prepared for this when the Cold Warwhen the disappeared Soviet Unionwhen he disappeared Warsaw pact. We proposed to unite (…) and make the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) a Euro-Atlantic security structure truly collective. It didn’t work,” argued the Russian foreign minister.
At another time, the politician demanded that the United Nations “find a way to investigate the incident with the explosion in the Nord Stream gas pipelines“. Russian President Vladimir Putin has already accused “Anglo-Saxons” in the past of being behind this attack, although he did not provide evidence. The White House has denied any responsibility for the attack.
colonial relations
According to Lavrov, the United States and its allies want to “revive the neocolonial unipolar world orderinterfere in the objective process of formation and emergence of new (hegemonic) world centers” in order to “collect authentic tributes from humanity”. That is why throughout 2022 Moscow has sought non-Western footholds in the field of international relations.
Recently, the Kremlin foreign minister returned from African continentwhere has building bridges with different governments in the region, in their construction of the multipolar world as Moscow understands it. Among them, he visited Sudan (where they agreed to build a Russian naval base), South Africa (to carry out joint exercises with Russia), Mali (Bamako is interested in Russian support against Islamic fundamentalism) or In Swat (Moscow will train local security forces.)