{"id":321928,"date":"2026-01-21T08:08:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321928"},"modified":"2026-01-22T07:16:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:16:45","slug":"nato-preparing-for-war-against-russia-lavrov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=321928","title":{"rendered":"NATO preparing for war against Russia \u2013 Lavrov"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 Jan 20, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Recent statements by top European officials, including NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, suggest that the West is preparing for a direct military conflict with Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference on the results of Russian diplomatic activities in 2025, Lavrov pointed to remarks by the EU\u2019s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, and other politicians such as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the leaders of Germany, France, and the UK. <em>\u201cThey are seriously preparing for war against the Russian Federation, and, in fact, are not even hiding it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister added that while Russia is determined to <em>\u201celiminate the root causes\u201d<\/em> of the Ukraine conflict, it is the West that has been <em>\u201cdeliberately creating\u201d<\/em> these issues for many years in an effort to turn Ukraine into a <em>\u201cthreat to Russia\u2019s security.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He noted that although the goal of inflicting a\u00a0<em>\u201cstrategic defeat\u201d<\/em>\u00a0on Moscow is not expressed by Western leaders as often these days, their actions suggest that the idea is still alive in their\u00a0<em>\u201cminds and plans,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0pointing to the continued support of the\u00a0<em>\u201copenly Nazi regime\u201d<\/em>\u00a0in Kiev and its course for the\u00a0<em>\u201clegislative and physical extermination of everything Russian.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Russia has rejected Western claims that it poses a threat to any foreign countries, dismissing it as <em>\u201cnonsense\u201d<\/em> and fearmongering meant to justify inflated military budgets across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have continued to push the claims and recently withdrew from international treaties banning anti-personnel landmines, and have announced plans to produce and deploy them along their borders with Russia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/631196-lavrov-nato-russia-war\/\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaders of NATO member states are beginning to sound as dangerously unhinged as Trump. Britain, for example, has an army of 80,000 and is having problems recruiting more. Yet Starmer is one of the foremost advocates for conflict with Russia    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":50382,"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-321928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321928","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=321928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321929,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321928\/revisions\/321929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}