Russia was taken in by the West’s promises due to its peoples’ trusting nature, the foreign minister has explained
Moscow trusted in the decency of the West for years, but not anymore, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said.
In an interview with RBK released on Friday, Lavrov was asked why Russia allowed the US and EU to take advantage of it on numerous occasions in recent decades.
“Deception lies at the foundation of Western diplomacy. And it still does,” he replied.
The minister recalled how the Americans broke their promise not to expand NATO after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 and how France and Germany became guarantors of a…
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