Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, tore into the kangaroo court that the NATO powers had created in the UN Security Council chamber over the alleged Russian violations of airspace in Poland and Estonia. Through the efforts of the leaders of Europe, “a primitive hatred for our country, coupled with the aspiration to portray Russia as the principal threat to all-European security, is before our very eyes becoming the overarching ideology of European states,” said Polyanskiy. “A concerted effort is underway to make the younger generation forget the bitter lessons taught to the predecessors of today’s European integrators—figures like Napoleon and Hitler. Both met their crushing defeat at the hands of our country, and the whole of Europe had to pay a lingering and painful price for that. Now, any event is immediately interpreted through an anti-Russian lens, and the notion that war with Russia is inevitable is being frantically hammered into the minds of the European public. They slap labels on Russia and fashion it into the image of an enemy, with no regard for facts or evidence. When these assertions are proven false, no one even considers apologizing for spreading blatant falsehoods. Today offers a perfect illustration of our point, as we can see a crowd of European ‘extras’ who will, in their usual fashion, let their imagination run wild regarding threats from Russia.”
Polyanskiy pointed out that Russia is not the only target of this European strategy. “Of course, we understand that the hysteria of our European colleagues is to a large extent geared towards bringing the new U.S. administration headed by President Trump back to an anti-Russian course and finally undermining the agreements and understandings reached by the Russian and American presidents in Alaska a month ago,” he said.
