{"id":1495735,"date":"2024-10-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1495735"},"modified":"2024-10-12T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T15:00:00","slug":"lavrovs-interview-with-newsweek-concisely-summarized-russias-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/lavrovs-interview-with-newsweek-concisely-summarized-russias-positions\/1495735\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov’s Interview With Newsweek Concisely Summarized Russia’s Positions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lavrov’s Interview With Newsweek Concisely Summarized Russia’s Positions<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

This might be the first time that average Americans read a top Russian official\u2019s views without a filter…<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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It\u2019s rare nowadays for Russian officials to give interviews to Western media, both because the first suspect that their words won\u2019t be accurately reported while the second fear being \u201ccanceled\u201d, which is why it\u2019s so important that Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov just gave a written interview to\u00a0Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He concisely summarized his country\u2019s positions on the Ukrainian Conflict, multipolarity, and the US\u2019 upcoming presidential election, which will be reviewed.<\/p>\n

Regarding the first, he reaffirmed the official position that Kiev should comply with\u00a0Putin\u2019s ceasefire request<\/a>\u00a0from over the summer and that Moscow wants to address the root causes of this conflict, not just freeze it for some time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0spring 2022 draft peace treaty<\/a>\u00a0could form the basis for resuming talks with Ukraine if the latter revokes its decree on banning them, though some details would have to change. He also\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0against letting Ukraine use Western long-range weapons deep inside of Russia.<\/p>\n

As for the second, Lavrov emphasized the regional dimension of multipolarity by referencing several leading blocs before describing BRICS as a model of multilateral diplomacy and confirming the importance of the UN as a forum for aligning the interests of all countries<\/strong>. Respect for one another\u2019s interests, a greater say in global governance for developing countries, and mutual cooperation are considered the driving forces behind this trend. China also shares Russia\u2019s views on this too, he said.<\/p>\n

Lavrov doesn\u2019t expect that anything will change in Russian-US relations after the election regardless of who wins since both parties are committed to countering his country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Kremlin will consider whatever new proposals might be made in the event that this happens, however, thus leaving open the possibility for improving their ties if the will exists on the US\u2019 side and it respects Russia\u2019s interests. He ended by hoping that the US will stop looking for adventures abroad, but this comes off as wishful thinking.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing novel in what he said and those who\u2019ve been following this conflict closely won\u2019t learn anything by reading his interview, but the importance rests in the fact that average Americans might hear more about Russia\u2019s actual policies towards these subjects for the first time. <\/strong>They\u2019ve mostly been insulated from this since it hasn\u2019t been accurately reported by their media until now. To Newsweek\u2019s credit, they shared Lavrov\u2019s responses without any editorializing too, thus removing the usual filter.<\/p>\n

None of this means that average Americans will now all of a sudden agree with everything that Russia is aiming to achieve in Ukraine and the world more broadly, nor might they be disabused of the false perception that it\u2019s meddling in support of Trump, but it might warm some of them up to these ideas. Depending on the battlefield progress in the coming months, the outcome of the election, and next month\u2019s G20 Summit in Rio, the trappings of a realistic compromise might finally begin to appear.<\/p>\n

In that scenario, other Mainstream Media outlets might follow Newsweek\u2019s lead by requesting interviews with Lavrov and other Russian officials. The purpose would be to precondition the public for accepting that the West\u2019s maximalist goals in this proxy war aren\u2019t realistic and that some of Russia\u2019s goals aren\u2019t as threatening as they were earlier portrayed.<\/strong> Of course, it\u2019s also possible that nothing might happen, in which case this interview will stand out as an exception instead of the start of a new trend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSat, 10\/12\/2024 – 07:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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