In a hard-hitting press conference today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov gave his annual sum-up of the year’s activity in the department. Lavrov used the opportunity to go through the background of the “special military operation,” looking at the policy of the West ever since the break-up of the Soviet Union. He characterized the policy of the West as similar to Hitler’s “Final Solution,” to eliminate Russians in the same way that Hitler wanted to eliminate the Jews. “Like Napoleon, who mobilized nearly all of Europe against the Russian Empire, and Hitler, who occupied the majority of European countries and hurled them at the Soviet Union, the United States has created a coalition of nearly all European member states of NATO and the EU and is using Ukraine to wage a proxy war against Russia with the old aim of finally solving the ‘Russian question,’ like Hitler, who sought a final solution to the ‘Jewish question,’” Lavrov said. (https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1848395/)
He remarked that all the other countries had submitted to the dictates of Washington, and that the EU subordinating itself to NATO was only one example of this. “The signing of the Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Cooperation on January 10 was the high point of this process, something that has been in the making for several years. It states explicitly that the alliance and the EU’s goal is to use all political, economic and military means in the interests of the golden billion. This is exactly what it says: in the interests of the one billion residents of NATO and the EU countries. The rest of the world, to quote High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, is a “jungle” that stifles progress in the “garden” and must, therefore, be reformatted, adjusted to their needs and turned into new-style colonies in order to use new methods to ruthlessly pump out resources from them.”
Lavrov also explained that the U.S. is doing something similar with its Indo-Pacific policy. “In the so-called ‘Indo-Pacific region,’ the West is out to create bloc architecture against Russia and China. With this aim in view, they have consistently been destroying (although they prefer to keep quiet about this) the decades-old mechanisms and formats of cooperation created around ASEAN based on equality, consensus, and a balance of interests. Instead, they are putting together military blocs. A shining case in point is AUKUS, an Anglo-Saxon bloc in Asia, which includes the U.S., the U.K., and Australia). Japan is under pressure to join it as well. Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s recent visit to Washington ended up confirming this course. Japan is militarizing again. As I understand it, Japan is bracing to alter the articles in its constitution that prevent it from doing this. The process is underway.”
