It’s high time that Russia understood it can only communicate with the West from a position of power, the nation’s Federation Council Speaker Sen. Valentina Matvienko, said June 11 in a statement for Russia Day, the national holiday celebrating the existence of Russia as a state. In remarks reported by RT, she said that Moscow does not see Western nations as traditional enemies; however, it will have to take into account that the U.S. and its allies will only listen to the language of force.
The West has always treated Russia as “something alien to its civilization,” Senator Matvienko said, in a lengthy statement published by the Russian Federation Council, as the Russian Senate is called. “Such a sentiment is deeply rooted in European society,” she said. Western nations have embarked on a path of “fierce confrontation” with Moscow, because it has always been a major obstacle to the West’s claim to world domination.
