Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova ripped into Great Britain’s leading role in trying to provoke global conflict with Russia. “The British policy in recent decades has ceased to be rational, it has become hostage to the protégés of the British political establishment obsessed with Russophobia,” she stressed. Stated just weeks before the Putin-Biden summit, which the British Establishment is determined to sabotage, Zakharova’s statements carry special weight.