{"id":38058,"date":"2023-06-28T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=38058"},"modified":"2023-06-28T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T23:24:27","slug":"standoff-with-west-is-a-war-of-worlds-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/standoff-with-west-is-a-war-of-worlds-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Standoff with west is a &#8216;war of worlds&#8217; \u2014 Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Washington and its allies will never allow any nation to pursue a sovereign policy based on national interests if it conflicts with their own plans, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday. The ongoing standoff between Russia and the Western nations is a&nbsp;<em>\u201cwar of worlds\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;involving incompatible approaches to international politics, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cShould any other nation try and defend its national interests just as staunchly and decisively, the West would turn against it as well,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;the minister told the Great Game show aired on Russia\u2019s Channel 1. The US and its allies still treat the&nbsp;<em>\u201cthreat\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;posed by Russia to their plans as a&nbsp;<em>\u201ctactical\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;one but believe that Moscow\u2019s victory would make this threat&nbsp;<em>\u201cunacceptable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Western nations claim to defend a supposed\u00a0<em>\u201crules-based order,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the Russian minister said, adding that such an order is nothing but a dictate by Washington and its allies.\u00a0<em>\u201cIt is when they [the West] decide on which globalization system applies to the world, what are its mechanisms\u2026 how trade disputes are resolved,\u201d<\/em> Lavrov said. The top Russian diplomat also said Washington and its allies had easily exploited principles they had previously declared to be inviolable.\u00a0<em>\u201cThe West has trampled on all its principles in an instant\u2026 free trade, fair competition, presumption of innocence\u2026 were all turned into weapons when they [the West] needed to punish the Russian Federation,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said. <em>\u201cWhen it comes to our former Western partners, though, we cannot rely on any agreements with them, including those of a legally binding nature,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Lavrov maintained. The US and its allies have repeatedly bent the rules of the\u00a0<em>\u201corder\u201d<\/em>\u00a0they were supposedly defending and neglected their commitments under agreements struck with Moscow, the minister stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington and its allies will never allow any nation to pursue a sovereign policy based on national interests if it conflicts with their own plans, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday. The ongoing standoff between Russia and the Western nations is a&nbsp;\u201cwar of worlds\u201d&nbsp;involving incompatible approaches to international politics, he added. \u201cShould any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":38060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/USRUSS-e1687994660669.jpg?fit=700%2C362&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38061,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38058\/revisions\/38061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}