Washington’s massive campaign to support Ukraine with arms amounts to a war against Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that the US has long groomed Kiev for this very purpose.
In a comment to Russian reporter Pavel Zarubin released on Sunday, Lavrov suggested that rumors about Washington possibly giving the green light to the delivery of Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), which have a range of up to 300km, were aimed at “shaping public opinion.”
According to the minister, these deliberations would not change the fact that “for many years Ukraine has been groomed to fight with its hands and bodies in order to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.” Lavrov accused the US of controlling the hostilities between Kiev and Moscow."
In recent weeks, several Western media outlets have reported that the administration of US President Joe Biden is edging closer to approving deliveries of the ATACMS, which Kiev has been requesting for several months. The US has been reluctant to approve sending these missile systems, arguing that potential Ukrainian strikes deep into Russia could trigger a major escalation in the conflict.
Ukraine has already received long-range missiles from the UK and France, which, according to local officials, have been used to attack civilian targets and infrastructure in Russia’s Crimean Peninsula and Donbass.
While the US has yet to grant Kiev’s request for ATACMS, it has committed more than $43 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the conflict began, including air defense systems, armored personnel carriers, and M1 Abrams tanks.
Moscow has repeatedly warned the West against supplying Ukraine with arms, saying that doing so will only prolong the conflict but will not change its ultimate outcome.
HAL TURNER EDITORIAL OPINION
I was reluctant to report these remarks by the Russian Foreign Minister for a simple reason: If the Russian Foreign Minister is now publicly accusing the U.S. of "controlling the hostilities between Kiev and Moscow" and also publicly saying the U.S. efforts for Ukraine amount to "the U.S. waging war upon Russia" then the only logical conclusion that __I__ can come to over such remarks is that at some point, Russia is going to strike the U.S.
Now, the mental weaklings of our society respond that such a thing is "impossible." In their little minds, the United States is so powerful that Russia "wouldn't dare." In __my__ view, those people are wrong.
The reason they are wrong is because Russia sees the ongoing Ukraine conflict (with full material support from the west) as "an existential threat."
They're correct in such an assessment. Want proof?
Back in April, I reported to you that Europe had revealed a map showing its plans to break Russia up into 43 separate countries (Story HERE).
Here is Gunther Fehlinger, Head of the Austrian Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) connected to the United Nations, showing the West's map of a world without Russia:
The revelation of this map is literal PROOF that it is the actual intention of the West to do-away with Russia. By even manufacturing such a map, the West has shown its intent. Russia now faces an ACTUAL existential threat. Their very existence is at stake.
Think about the time and effort that was necessary to research the populations and ethnicities in each of these areas, where they are, and how to draw actual lines along the geography of the demographics, to create this vision of new, autonomous, countries. The research and planning alone had to take . . . YEARS.
So the mental weaklings who say "Russia wouldn't dare" have their heads up their ass. Russia may decide it has no choice.
Thus, the remarks by Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov over this weekend, are "building a case" for a massive Russian strike at the U.S. Lavrov's public remarks are "building a record" for posterity.
Step-by-step the U.S. has escalated the Russia-Ukraine fight. Step-by-step the U.S. and its NATO vassals continue to escalate.
Well, while the West is doing its thing, Russia is systematically building an open, public, historical record of what is actually taking place.
When a man like Sergei Lavrov utters the words he spoke over the weekend, it is as serious as a heart attack.
I will preface my further remarks by admitting I very much admire Foreign Minister Lavrov. In my view, he is the single most competent, most skilled, Foreign Minister on the entire planet. He says what he means, and more importantly, he means what he says.
You never once hear the Russian Foreign Ministry "walking-back" anything Lavrov says. You never once hear the Russian government having to "clarify" what Lavrov said.
That Lavrov has now said the US is "controlling the conflict between Moscow and Kiev" lays actual involvement and responsibility for war on the US lap.
Closer and closer we seem to be coming to the moment when Russia strikes.
None of us will ever be able to say We weren't warned.
