Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s claims drew laughter at a major conference of Indo-Pacific officials. “The war — which we are trying to stop, which was launched against us, using Ukrai—” Lavrov said, as the crowd began to guffaw.
“The war — which we are trying to stop, which was launched against us, using Ukrai—” Lavrov said, as the crowd began to guffaw.It was a derisive conclusion to an appearance that Lavrov largely had dominated up to that point with a blend of talking points about NATO expansion, criticism of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which drew scattered applause from the same assembly, and his own mockery of skeptical questions.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top envoy advanced that argument at the Raisina Dialogue 2023 in New Delhi, a diplomatic and security conference that functioned as a public airing of the debate that “marred” the G-20 foreign minister’s meeting this week as Secretary of State Antony Blinken put it.
"When I was a NATO supreme allied commander, I had Russian officers on my staff. ... When I was a U.S. [Central Command] commander, I had a Russian officer on my staff,” former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told the gathering. “The Russian army knew that NATO was no threat. To this day, they know that, and we can prove it because they have moved their troops off the NATO line, and they’re [now] attacking Ukraine.
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