Sergei Lavrov accuses west of using Ukraine ‘to defeat’ Russia days after Putin shifts Moscow’s nuclear posture
Russia’s top diplomat warned on Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power”, delivering a UN general assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere – including inside the United Nations itself.
Three days after Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, aired a shift in his country’s nuclear doctrine, his foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused the west of using Ukraine – which Russia invaded in February 2022 – as a tool to try “to defeat” Moscow strategically, and “preparing Europe for it to also throw itself into this suicidal escapade”.
“I’m not going to talk here about the senselessness and the danger of the very idea of trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power, which is what Russia is,” he said.
Remember when Gorbachev said he would bury us?
Well he’s dead, I’m alive and my fear of Russia using nukes is non existent after hearing them drone on about it for literal decades.
Was krushchev. But he’s dead too, same principle applies.
Krushchev, and the idiom was a bit lost in translation. As I understand, the meaning was closer to “We will outlast you.”
Not that that worked out either, but it’s less aggressive and more defiant.
I don’t subscribe to that point of view.
It would be such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children too.
Seems like people don’t know their Sting like they used to.
Not enough Englishmen in New York.