Posted on 08/04/2013 11:16:22 PM PDT by TexGrill
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev criticized Sunday the West's interference in the Middle East, describing it as a "bull in a china shop."
In an interview with RT, Medvedev said he agreed with the interviewer that the West often purposefully pushed whole nations to the point of no return, beyond which it was very difficult to convince the warring sides to attempt negotiations.
"Our Western partners sometimes behave like a bull in a china shop — they squeeze in, crush everything and then don't know what to do next. I often find myself astonished at their analysts and how inconsistent their projects are that they push through by their superiors and at the outcomes they get," Medvedev told RT.
"If we're being completely honest, what good did the Arab Spring bring to the Arab world? Did it bring freedom? A little, at best. In most countries it led to endless bloodshed, regime change, and continuous unrest. I have no illusions about that either. As for the pushing that you mentioned, yes, unfortunately, that's true," Medvedev said.
What happened in Libya and Iraq and what is happening in Syria show that there is a forceful dismantling of a country's political system under the guise of the fight for national interests, an intrusion into its internal affairs and the installation a loyal political regime, Medvedev said.
"Nothing good came out of it, by the way. We know what happened and we can see what is happening. The situation in Iraq is very volatile — dozens of people are killed every day ... Of course, we are doing our best to support Iraq. We meet with Iraqi leaders; we sympathize with them, because we have a long history of contacts with them," the prime minister said.
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The fellow whose country helps Middle Eastern terror-sponsoring nations build nukes talks about “interference in the Middle East”. Rich.
Yeah, right? Folks in Poland and the Baltic States could give this moron an earful about how Russians behave in other peoples countries.
There is no single destabilizing force in the world, 24 years after the fall of the Berlin wall than Russia.
The Russians, more than any other modern power have more blood on their hands than anybody else. Problem is, the curent US President thinks he still in the RESET mode with Putin while Putin moved on to his global interests while Obama twiddles his thumbs...
That photo looks more creepy than the picture I post showing the lovely friendship of Karl Rove and Texas AG Greg Abbott. The scary part is that I can no longer type “Obama unicorn” on a Google image search. 80% of those photos show paintings of Obama getting f***ed by a unicorn. Makes me wonder if that painter has a close and personal friendship with Bathouse Barry.
That is one seductive interview, for the morons. Couldn’t be better, in rhythm of sentiment by phrased timing.
I was tempted to use one of those painted Obama on the magical unicorns but thought it wouldn’t be real if it didn’t show the real Zer0. I was looking for one that had the Hildabeast riding on the back. If I were that computer equipped, I would make one.
Yeah... well... we got “Smart Politics”, so nyanh, nyanh, nyanh.
It seems the Russians have forgotten their actions in the middle east.
You would think that GWB was still in office...
The Russians just call them the way the see them.
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