Another Extraordinary Statement by Lavrov
Lavrov issued another extraordinary statement today:
Moscow is sincerely grateful for the reaction of our foreign friends and partners, who condemn the terrorist attack launched by the Kiev regime on the night of December 28-29 on the state residence of the President of the Russian Federation in the Novgorod Region. We are grateful for the words of support and solidarity addressed to the head of the Russian state, the Government and the people of Russia. [Putin received numerous calls of support.]
The incident once again confirmed the terrorist nature of a group of persons illegally holding power in Kiev. On their direct instructions, passenger trains were blown up on the territory of Russia, numerous attacks against purely civilian objects, and journalists, politicians and public figures were killed.
In this regard, those in the EU and NATO who loudly demand the provision of “ironclad” security guarantees for Ukraine within the framework of the settlement process led by Russia and the United States, it would be good to answer the question of which regime and for what purpose are they trying to protect with all their might? This is a rhetorical question: there is no doubt that the main goal of Brussels, Berlin, Paris and London is to preserve the regime that sleeps and sees, so that it can be helped to survive and continue to control some territory where, contrary to all norms of international law, the Russian language and Russian-language media are banned by law, where canonical Orthodoxy is persecuted, monuments of Russian history and culture are demolished, Nazi ideology and practices are cultivated, and where they are subjected to cruel repression oppositionists and simply dissenters. It is this kind of formation next to Russia that European Russophobes need to implement their announced plans to prepare a new aggression against our country.
I am sure that the racist nature of the Kiev regime and the cynicism of its external sponsors are clearly visible to respectable members of the international community, who cannot but understand that without an end to all this criminal policy, the success of negotiations on achieving a reliable long-term settlement of the Ukrainian crisis is impossible. [My Emphasis]
So, keep up the terrorist attacks and there’ll be no negotiated settlement, but a settlement will be arrived by arms and dictated by Russia. In other words, choose your poison Russophobes. Again, I must promote Jeff Sachs essay, “Jeffrey Sachs: Two Centuries of Russophobia & Rejection of Peace.” as it provides insight into the odd disease of the mind within Euro-Atlantic national elites that’s one of the roots of the current conflict, although he doesn’t dig deeper to provide the religious based roots that go back to the mid-800s and are related to the dogma that all Christians must be controlled by one Imperial center and profess the same ideology—there are to be no heretics, and those who don’t conform will be eliminated.
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While there is a terrorist State next door to you supported by terrorist actions announced recently by the new MI6 boss there can be no peace. Lavrov and Putin are finally stating clearly in 'sound bites' that even westerners can understand something many of us have known since this affair started.
I like the way you go back to 800. What you didn't say was that the capture by Western Christianity of predominance for Rome was just that and act of predatory capture when Charlmagne to cement his glory as emperor of the West crowned himself Holy Roman Emperor, with the unwilling complicity of the then pope in Rome. The Church and State thereafter usurped the status of the Eastern Church - which was senior and the actual descendant of the original Christian Church of the Roman Empire since the Western branch had been destroyed by barbarian invasions. This is well set out by Guy Mettan in his book Russophobia. I have a theory that this act of treachery on the part of Western Europe has led to a sense of guilt in Western Europe ever since and to counteract that sense of guilt we have chosen to seek, always, opposition to Russia, now the keepers so to speak of the torch of Eastern Christianity, rather than seeking to mend the wound begun by us in the year 800. Of course there are many other aspects through the long historical period since 800 that have contributed the the current iteration of Russophobia, but that in my view was where it all begin. The Roman Catholic Church instead of trying to get in on the action as a mediator should apologise to the Orthodox Church and ask forgiveness for the historical wrongs committed as it is quite clear that the wrongs began in the West.