West Has Declared a Hybrid ‘Total War’ on Russia, Lavrov Says

• West Has Declared a Hybrid ‘Total War’ on Russia, Lavrov Says
  by Ilya Tsukanov, https://sputniknews.com/
  According to the foreign minister, the desire by the US and its Western allies to maintain their dominance in international affairs and return to a unipolar world order are now “illusions”.
  The West has declared a hybrid ‘total war’ against Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
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  “Today a real hybrid war, a ‘total war’ has been declared against us. This term, which was used by Nazi Germany, is now used by many European politicians when they explain what they want to do to the Russian Federation. And their goals are not hidden: to destroy, to break, to strangle the Russian economy, and Russia as a whole,” Lavrov said, speaking at a diplomatic forum on Friday.
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  “Here, when we see this sanctions free-for-all, it is of course clear that all of these values that our Western colleagues had constantly preached to us about the freedom of expression, a market economy, the inviolability of private property and the presumption of innocence, all of these values are worthless,” Lavrov said in a separate engagement with reporters Friday after meeting with Abkhazian President Aslan Bzhania.
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  The diplomat said most countries outside the collective West don’t want to “engage in a one-sided game” amid the current crisis, notwithstanding “enormous pressure” and “propaganda juggling the numbers of votes cast for provocative UN resolutions”.
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  Lavrov expressed confidence that most countries in the world will not join the West’s sanctions games. “The vast majority of countries in the world are interested in developing equitable cooperation based on the key principles laid down in the UN Charter, first and foremost – the principle of the sovereign equality of states,” he said.
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  The Russian diplomat also suggested that efforts by the West to “rudely trample” over these principles to try to “impose its superiority” are “doomed to failure”, as even the history of Europe has shown.
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