Russia seeks to destroy the international rules invented to prevent World War III. This was stated by the speaker of the US Department of State (MFA), Edward "Ned" Price at a briefing.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia's new foreign policy is focused on "ending the Western monopoly" and the dominance of Western standards worldwide.
Commenting on this statement by Lavrov, the speaker of the US Foreign Ministry emphasized that Foreign Minister Lavrov is referring to is the rules-based order, and these are rules that were written by the international community in the aftermath of the Second World War in an attempt to prevent and to forestall a third world war.
"These are concepts that were written into the UN Charter, that were written into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that were written into international law, and that all member-states of the UN – and last time I checked, Russia still is a member-state of the UN – that all member-states subscribe to, that all member-states pledge to uphold, that all member-states are bound to uphold. So any effort to paint these as the West imposing its rules or its views on any other country is nothing more than just more hot air, just more disinformation from our Russian counterparts, who have had no shortage of it in recent months,†Price said.
According to him, instead of complying with these rules, Russia wants to impose its will on other countries, which it is trying to do right now in different regions of the world.
“We see it as Russia attempting to impose its will on sovereign countries. We see it most vividly on Ukraine, where Russia has sent its forces, with all of their brutality, in an effort to impose its will over the people of Ukraine, to remove the government of Ukraine, and to deprive Ukraine of its sovereignty, its independence, its democracy,†Price said.
