Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov submitted an article to a Russian publication called Razvedchik (Intelligence Officer) this week in which he describes how the world is abandoning the Anglo-American unipolar world order in favor of a world of multipolarity, in which a growing number of countries “have an independent foreign policy, which prioritizes their core national interests.” Lavrov writes: “We live at a time of historic geopolitical shifts. …This puts in place objective factors for the emergence of a new multipolar world order—a more resilient, just, and democratic framework reflecting the natural and inalienable right of every nation to determine its future, as well as choose its own internal and socioeconomic development models.”
Rather than accepting this shift, “the U.S.-led so-called collective West is doing everything to revive the unipolar model, which has run its course. They want to force the world to live in a Western-centric rules-based order that they invented themselves, while seeking to punish those who disagree with these rules, even if no one has ever seen them and they are nowhere to be found.”
After describing how Washington and Brussels (he should have also included London) are trying to turn everything, including international organizations such as the OSCE, against Russia, Lavrov reports that, “Today, our relations with the United States and the EU are at the lowest ebb since the end of bipolar confrontation.” The West’s goal in Ukraine “is to defeat us on the battlefield, destroy the Russian economy and undermine our internal political stability.”