Russia’s had enough: No more ‘business as usual’ with US
Posted by seumasach on January 30, 2016
The significance of Lavrov’s remarks is not that we are heading to a showdown between Russia and the US but, rather, that Russia now assesses that it has sufficient sympathy and support for its viewpoint inside the USA to feel able to move more aggressively to sideline the neocons. Lavrov’s comments on the Litvinenko affair showed that Russia has reach the limit in terms of accommodation with imperial redoubts like the UK, or, at least, with the Cameron leadership
On Tuesday, 26 January Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held his annual press conference before an audience of about 150 journalists, including the BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg and many other well-known representatives of mainstream Western media. The purpose of this traditional event is to review issues faced by his Ministry in the past year and to give his appraisal of results achieved.
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