Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin warned yesterday in his address to the Tenth Moscow Conference on International Security that the confrontation between the West and the East has entered a hot phase. “It is our deep conviction that the special military operation that Russia had to launch on the territory of Ukraine is not another local military conflict. This is an external manifestation of the global civilizational confrontation between the West and the East. We are in absolute solidarity with our Russian colleagues on this. They have outlined their vision of what is happening in recent publications on the mental war against Russia,” the defense minister said, reported the official news agency, BelTA.
“We make the one and only conclusion: the fight is life-and-death on all fronts. If the concept of globalism prevails, the West will retain the right to dictate the rules of the game to the rest and freely dispose of the world’s resources for the prosperity of the ‘golden billion'...” Khrenin said. In his opinion, in this war by proxy Ukraine is a pawn in the big game. “Washington and London are spearheading the confrontation against the so-called Russian world, but being not ready for a direct confrontation, they prefer to throw their vassals into the meat grinder of war, placing themselves above the battle,” he said. ((https://eng.belta.by/politics/view/khrenin-confrontation-between-west-east-enters-hot-phase-152485-2022/ )
