Opinion - The Kremlin fears that the West is trying to break Russia apart. If only!
Russia’s stony-faced foreign minister is getting paranoid. Sergei Lavrov believes that “at present, about 50 countries are trying to break up Russia.”
But, Lavrov told the assembled professors and students of the elite Moscow State Institute for International Relations, this is nothing new. Western countries have always aspired to break up Russia so as to produce a “dependent” and “dying space” with which they would be able to do what they desired. “Dismembering” Russia is the ultimate goal.
Lavrov purposely used two words — “razvalit'” and “razchlenit’” — that focus not on Russia’s diminution as a power player or even its destruction as a state, but on its composition of disparate territories, economic regions and nations.
As veteran Russia-watcher Paul Goble notes, “the paranoia Lavrov manifests in making such a statement is noteworthy because of what it says about the thinking in the Kremlin concerning the fragility of the world’s last remaining empire.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-kremlin-fears-west-trying-133000017.html
You need some serious sobriety rehab Lavrov. If there are ethnic minorities that want to break away from Russia your treatment of them is likely the cause.
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