Posted on 01/19/2018 10:54:22 AM PST by GoldenState_Rose
Moscow will work to preserve the Iran nuclear deal despite Donald Trump's recent pledge to change it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at his annual news conference.
"Unfortunately, our American colleagues still want to operate only on the basis of dictating policy, issuing ultimatums, they do not want to hear the perspectives of other centers of world politics," Lavrov said on Monday.
The US is refusing to "acknowledge the reality of the emerging multi-polar world," he added.
The Russian foreign minister said that statements coming from the US also "seriously aggravated" tensions in other parts of the world, including the Korean Peninsula.
Lavrov also criticized the US over their plans to provide Greece with US natural gas, and other energy initiatives clashing with Russia's interests in Europe. "When it comes to [Trump] administrations actions, there is a fear of healthy competition," he said. Commenting on the US actions in Syria, he said that Washington's priorities had not changed under Trump. According to Moscow's standpoint, Washington is focusing on regime change over ending the civil war. In some areas, US foreign policy even became "more saturated, more assertive" under Donald Trump, "regardless of his positions during the electoral campaign," Lavrov said.
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What? North pole, South pole. Problem?
I think the translator is broken ,LOL
Multipolar is a world that has more than one dominating power. The U.S. unipolar moment has come and gone.
Who but a fool would be okay with Muz countries having nukes.
Never heard of him.
Sure explains why the Russkis pulled out all the stops to elect him. /SARC
But now: US-led sanctions, US's new approach to North Korea, plus instability brewing in Russia-allied countries like Iran, Turkey and US encroaching upon Syria -- threaten all his geopolitical gambles.
Russia's neighbors: the Baltics and most especially UKRAINE see it in their interest to join the sphere of Western powers.
This following quote was written two years ago, by someone I don't even agree with all the time - but the trends are still holding true:
Despite the “rise and fall of the unipolar concert,” China and Russia’s balancing strategies have backfired: they are not leading to multipolarity, but are actually reinforcing unipolarity. The reason is that China and Russia’s balancing strategies have focused on regional “revisionism,” which has provoked powerful responses in East Asia and Europe to contain them. This modern version of containment is a diffuse reaction by China and Russia’s threatened neighbors, but it has centered on strengthening the U.S.-led alliance systems in East Asia and Europe in order to maintain the regional status quos. The United States is therefore the main strategic beneficiary of Chinese and Russian balancing, which is likely to lead to a long “unipolar moment.”
Thanks GoldenState_Rose. And, the buried lead?
Lavrov also criticized the US over their plans to provide Greece with US natural gas, and other energy initiatives clashing with Russia's interests in Europe.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)
Sergai Lavrov is Russia’s experienced well respected, and savvy foreign minister.
Not part of Putin’s inner circle, but he’s close.
Ate Clinton’s and then Kerry’s lunches for them during the Obama era.
Won’t be eating Trump’s!
Bipolar anyway...
- It’s a country many times as large as our own.
- It only has about half our population.
- That population is shrinking.
- If the Chinese want to walk over the border and take Sibera there will be no one there to stop them.
- Their GDP is about the size of Denmark’s.
Not exactly. If the Chinese walked into Siberia they would be Nuked to ashes. Bank on that!
That’s how real countries protect their territory.
Hey Sergei, your time is past. Get over it. And Trump has not thrown out the Iran agreement, in spite of his campaign pledge. Too many Obama generals surrounding him and the swamp lapping at his feet, undrained as ever.
Russia is a second world nation
Um Russia without Siberia? There goes all their natural resources...and they need people to work the land...so...
Lavrov is one of the most long living people on top of Russian politics. He was already a big diplomat aged 30 being the first secretary for the Soviets in UN in 1981 and by late 1980s he was a chief for department managing international organizations for the Soviets then became a UN representative and deputy foreign minister after Russia declared independence from USSR.
I believe he is mostly responsible for the fact that Russia managed to maintain most of the Soviet heavyweight in international relations in 1990s despite overall pathetic state of Yeltsyn regime.
Arguably one of the top diplomats living today.
Lavrov is ‘old school’ and though a true statesman I understand Putin has to bring him in line from time to time....
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