{"id":280322,"date":"2024-01-19T08:18:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T08:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=280322"},"modified":"2024-01-21T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T09:17:49","slug":"russia-cant-trust-west-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=280322","title":{"rendered":"Russia can\u2019t trust West \u2013 Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 Jan 18, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Ukraine conflict has helped Russia overcome the misconception that it can trust the West, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference on Thursday on Moscow\u2019s diplomacy in 2023, Lavrov argued that Russia\u2019s military operation against Kiev has had positive consequences domestically, including a reinvigorating effect on society which has helped to bring people together.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the conflict, which also ushered in unprecedented Western sanctions, allowed the country\u2019s economy to make great strides in both civilian and military production.<\/p>\n<p>The West\u2019s <em>\u201chybrid aggression,\u201d<\/em> which encompassed many areas, played a role in <em>\u201cmaking us understand how to go on living,\u201d<\/em> Lavrov said.<em> \u201cIf there had been any illusions left over from the 1990s, that the West would open its arms to embrace us and that democracy would unite us all, they have been completely dispelled.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe West cannot be trusted. Even now, it wants only one thing \u2013 to live at the expense of others and to be more clever than others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov\u2019s comments come after Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted last month that he was<em> \u201cnaive\u201d<\/em> early on in his political career, despite having served in the Soviet KGB. He said he believed that there was no fundamental reason for the West and Moscow to be at odds after the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>However, in reality, the former was seeking to break Russia into several entities with less ability to protect their national interests, the president stated. Putin had previously warned that a breakup of the country could lead to the Russian people ceasing to exist altogether, adding that unity is the key condition for the country\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/590896-russia-cant-trust-west-lavrov\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conflict in Ukraine has benefited Russia in several ways, says Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. Firstly, it has helped dispel any illusions Moscow had that the West could be trusted. In addition, Western sanctions have prompted Russia to make great strides in civil and military production    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280323,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280322\/revisions\/280323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}