[…] Since the Soviet Union went into oblivion, new Russia’s foreign policy has always been based exclusively on its national interests. No lecturing, and no forcing ideologically-driven approaches on our neighbours or partners, either. We operate in strict compliance with our conceptual documents, the Constitution and the Foreign Policy Concept. The primary goal of our foreign policy is to ensure safe conditions for the country’s development and to raise the well-being of our citizens.
Many political scientists, academics, and experts seriously argue that a third world war is not just unavoidable, but is already underway in new forms, beginning with the West’s aggression against Yugoslavia in 1999 followed by aggression against Iraq, the destruction of Libya, and the attack on Syria. All these Middle Eastern countries are now in a state of turmoil. The territorial integrity of Iraq, Syria, and Libya – something the West seems to care about only in the case of Ukraine – was gravely undermined during the Arab Spring in 2011. These countries remain in a pretty bad shape.
Now, the West has turned to a neighbouring region, namely, the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian territories, more broadly. There has been an act of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In Europe, the Ukraine issue represents the West’s policy of aiming to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia. They don’t hide the fact that they had been preparing for this for quite some time. With no shame, they are openly saying that the Minsk Agreements, which were designed to resolve all problems, were never meant to be implemented. President Putin, then-Chancellor Angela Merkel, then-French President François Hollande, and then-Ukrainian President Petr Poroshenko put in 17 hours without sleep working on those agreements. But afterwards, those very people who sat at one table with him admitted they never intended to implement anything. They just needed to “put something on paper” to buy Ukraine time for it to prepare for war with Russia, and to flood it with weapons. Läs intervjun