Lavrov Unplugged

We’ve heard of mafia-like “pistol-whips” about the face, and cruder “b” slaps, but this a third path being delivered by Uncle Lavrov, delivered with quintessential dry diplomatic sadness..

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Dollar has become a tool of interference in domestic affairs and regime changes, Lavrov notes
⭕ Lavrov in an interview with Sputnik and Rossiya 24 broadcaster: the United States called Russia an enemy, if this is so, then Moscow is ready for any development of events
⭕ Russia expects to reach its goals in the special military operation, Lavrov argues. The West’s strategy to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia has failed, Sergey Lavrov noted in an interview with Sputnik and Rossiya 24 news channel.
⭕ Lavrov calls the Western countries’ attempts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine in such a way as “declaring Kiev’s victory” a monkey business.
⭕ Lavrov in an interview with Sputnik and Rossiya 24: I don’t see a bright future for the European Union, in a good way
🌈 In Russian, the idiom for the “bright future” sounds like “a rainbow future,” hence the pun.
⭕ Only a serious domestic upheaval can bring the US to its senses, now it has “superiority running rampant,” Lavrov says
⭕ Russia will gradually introduce the “BRICS culture” into world affairs: Lavrov

Full interview: 

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