Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave an interview—in English—to RT yesterday in which he developed the view that the U.S. objective against Russia has little to do with Ukraine but everything to do with the American desire for a unipolar world order run from Washington (but really the strings are pulled from London—ed.). “I believe the goal of the sanctions is much more strategic than just Ukraine,” He said at the outset in response to the first question. “I think what we witness in Ukraine is the quintessence of the Western course, strategic course to marginalize Russia, to contain Russia, to stop Russia’s development and to reduce Russia to a zero role in world politics and world economy, world trade, world sports, art, science, education. And we observe unprecedented steps our Western colleagues are taking. One of the underlying trends is the United States’ desire—which has been much more manifested by the Biden administration—to come back to a unipolar world.”
Later in the interview, Lavrov came back to this topic, saying what the U.S. wants is a world which would not be like a global village but “which would be like an American village and maybe an American saloon where who is strongest is calling the shots.” Lavrov remarked that the Americans say “they are succeeding to mobilize behind themselves and, on the basis of their own interests, the entire Western world, which is indicative of how independent NATO members and European Union members are and which is indicative of what place the European Union, as I said, would have in the future configuration of the world situation and the world system.”
But there are states that would never accept such a global village under an American sheriff, Lavrov argued, among them China, India, Brazil and Mexico. “I am sure these countries do not want to be just in the position where Uncle Sam orders them to do something and they say `Yes, sir.’ And of course, Russia is not in the category of countries who would be ready to do so.”
