
Lavrov: Collective West Will Fail To ‘Inflict a Strategic Defeat on Russia’
June 30—Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Sunday, June 29, after a meeting with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Zheenbek Kulubaev, that, “in the current very difficult and radically changed international situation…. We are witnessing an unprecedented confrontation between our country and the collective West, which has decided once again to go to war against us and inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, using the Nazi regime in Kiev as a ram. The West has never been able to do this, and it won’t work this time. They’re probably starting to figure it out,” Lavrov noted.
According to Sputnik, Lavrov added: “As [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin has said recently, we are ready to defend a just settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. We are open to honest work, but we are not ready for the kind of scheming towards which some European leaders have been pushing us…. These people have completely lost common sense and are openly trying to return to the days when France and Germany wanted to conquer Europe, primarily the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. It is sad that they are returning to those instincts,” said Lavrov.
Lavrov reserved special attention for the case of German Chancellor Fred Merz. "Particularly unacceptable is the recent statement by German Chancellor F. Merz that it is necessary to make Ukraine strong, not to succumb to Russian ‘tricks’ such as calls for negotiations, because otherwise, supposedly, Europe will repeat the experience of the 1930s, when the leading European powers decided to appease the aggressor in the person of Hitler’s Germany. A stunning comparison, for a person who aspires to be taken seriously as Chancellor of the Federal Republic.
“I don’t recall that in the Czech Republic, Poland, or any other European country invaded by Nazi Germany, they banned the German language, German culture, or tore down monuments to Goethe, Schiller, and Kant. There was no such thing. What Mr. Merz has mixed up, it seems to me, is a serious issue, without clarifying which it is pointless to continue talking with Europe. What German and modern Ukrainian Nazis have in common is their attitude towards those they want to enslave. The Nazis burned Jews only because they were Jews. And Ukrainian Nazis burned Russian people in Odessa on May 2, 2014 only because they were Russian. I would advise German Chancellor Merz to understand these parallels for himself.”