The 20th meeting of the heads of security and intelligence agencies of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries convened in Moscow today, where both Sergei Naryshkin, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), and Federal Security Service (FSB ) chief Alexander Bortnikov warned against the huge security threat emanating from the West, led by the US. The meeting was also attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The meeting focused on what is seen as a second front in the operations conducted by the Western Alliance against Russia and its allies. While the development and deployment of the Oreshkin missile and Russian advances in the Donbass have made it evermore clear that the “Ukraine gambit” will be a failure, the war party are now placing more efforts on using ‘color revolutions’ combined with an open terrorist element as an even more important part of the West’s policy to disrupt the entire region. “As a result, today Ukraine is a failed state, that is, a state that is unable to maintain its existence as a viable political and economic entity,” Naryshkin said. “Western capitals have begun to think about how to avoid defeat themselves and, if possible, preserve the Russophobic neo-Nazi regime in Kiev ,” Naryshkin said.
Naryshkin charged that the West is unwilling to accept the loss of its past power and is deliberately undermining the situation in key regions of the world. “Euro-Atlantic elites … stubbornly refuse to accept the loss of their former dominance. They are trying to convince the rest of the world that the only alternative to Western power is chaos, and for this purpose, they deliberately seek destabilization in key regions of the planet,” he said reported TASS.
Naryshkin stated that the West operates “like criminal authorities, following the logic of ‘you die today, I die tomorrow.’” He underlined that the policy of the West was to divide the countries of the region, playing on ultra-nationalist sentiments, as they have done in Ukraine. He pointed to the destabilization efforts in Georgia and the creation of a dissident Georgian Legion, which is also prepared to conduct insurgency operations in a moment of political crisis fomented by Western forces aiming at creating a “Georgian Maidan.” He noted, as well, the organization of Belarus dissidents in Poland and Lithuania who are geared to intervene in the Belarus elections in January. Western intelligence services had already shown their ugly face in the destruction of the NordStream pipeline, he commented, adding that “the revolutionary aspect of the current situation is Washington and its allies’ decreasing ability to execute their destructive plans.” Naryshkin said further that “the main challenge they face is the innovative efforts of responsible regional powers striving to independently ensure peace and security for their nations.” He pointed to the concerted efforts of Russia and its friends in working toward a new Eurasian security architecture and to the importance of the cooperation in BRICS..
