Russian Foreign Secretary Sergey Lavrov today named the British as the key to the major strategic destabilization efforts, including the attacks on Russia’s bridges, railroads and strategic bomber sites. And instead of lumping the U.S. in with the British, he insisted that, “who knows, maybe some U.S. intelligence services are also participating there by inertia. But the British are 100%.”
He spoke in Moscow at the Tsargrad Institute’s “Forum of the Future—2050”, in answer to a question posed by Larry Johnson: “Russia has always been a leader in terms of coordinating both diplomatic and military efforts. What problems or obstacles or challenges do you envision as Russia now shifts from a special military operation to a counter-terrorism operation?” Johnson is former analyst for the CIA, a co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, and known to be in a somewhat regular dialogue with the Schiller Institute’s Helga Zepp-LaRouche.
Lavrov developed the nature of the terrorist operations by locating the methods used by Kiev as never primarily military, but with the attacks on civilian bridges and railroads in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, the “naked form” is most clear. “In the Kursk region, we all saw what the Ukrainian Nazis did there. There is not a single object there that could be presented to the viewer as an object related to military operations…. And at the last meeting with members of the government, the president very clearly stated what conclusion we had come to, are coming to, and will proceed from....