{"id":297812,"date":"2024-11-02T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=297812"},"modified":"2024-11-03T08:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T08:05:31","slug":"us-russia-on-brink-of-direct-conflict-lavrov-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=297812","title":{"rendered":"US, Russia on \u2018brink\u2019 of direct conflict, Lavrov warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AFP \u2013 Nov 1, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_134831\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lavrov-at-St-Petersburg-forum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134831\" class=\"size-full wp-image-134831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lavrov-at-St-Petersburg-forum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lavrov-at-St-Petersburg-forum.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lavrov-at-St-Petersburg-forum-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The United States and Russia are very close to engaging in \u201cdirect military conflict,\u201d Russian Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/insiderpaper.com\/russia-excludes-lavrov-blinken-meeting-at-un\/\">Sergei Lavrov<\/a> warned in an interview published Friday in a Turkey daily, just days ahead of a US presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnder the current president (Joe Biden), who has taken the downward spiral of Russophobia in the US to its logical conclusion, our countries are on the brink of direct military conflict,\u201d he told the Hurriyet daily, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about next week\u2019s US election pitting former Republican president Donald Trump against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, Lavrov said the outcome would make little difference to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no preference. When the Trump administration was in power, it adopted the highest number of anti-Russian sanctions compared to its predecessors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo matter who wins the elections, we don\u2019t think the United States\u2019 anti-Russian bent can change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Trump has previously made clear his fondness for Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, the two men are not close and have maintained a deliberately ambiguous relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Russian president said his relationship with Washington would depend on what attitude it adopts after the vote, as he welcomed as \u201csincere\u201d Trump\u2019s remarks about wanting to end the Ukraine conflict.<\/p>\n<p>In September, Microsoft claimed Russia operatives had ramped up their disinformation operations to malign the Harris campaign through conspiracy-fuelled videos, raising concerns over foreign influence operations targeting the vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insiderpaper.com\/us-russia-on-brink-of-direct-conflict-lavrov-warns\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is getting almost no coverage in the Western media. That maybe because, as Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Lavrov explains: \u201cNo matter who wins the elections, we don\u2019t think the United States\u2019 anti-Russian bent can change.\u201d<\/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-297812","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\/297812","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=297812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297815,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297812\/revisions\/297815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}