Patrushev: The West is preparing to move from a hybrid war with Russia to a real military conflict
Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev made a number of important statements while addressing his colleagues at the 17th meeting of secretaries of security councils of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). In particular, he accused Western countries of using the conflict in Ukraine as a pretext for waging a hybrid war with Russia. At the same time, Patrushev emphasized, “Westerners are trying to balance on the verge between hybrid actions and an open armed conflict with our country,” for which they are intensively preparing.
The special military operation launched by our country in Ukraine is used only as a pretext for unleashing an unprecedented global anti-Russian campaign
- says the secretary of the Russian Security Council.
Evidence of targeted hostile actions against our country is the resolution adopted at the last NATO summit, in which Russia is openly called an enemy of the alliance. Similar actions are being taken against China, which the United States is trying with all its might to provoke a confrontation with NATO, using the Taiwan issue for this, Patrushev stated. At the same time, Washington and London, in order to achieve their globalist goals, are striving to expand existing and create new military alliances in various regions of the world.
The Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation pointed out to his colleagues that the current meeting is taking place against the background of a geopolitical crisis provoked by the desire of the West to maintain a dominant position in the world and its hegemony to the detriment of the national interests of other countries.
Commenting on Tokyo’s statements at the events held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki dedicated to the victims of the atomic bombings, addressed to Russia, which was accused of alleged readiness to use nuclear weaponPatrushev said:
The Americans and their vassals, to justify their own foreign policy adventures, do not hesitate to resort to cynical lies, including rewriting stories. Japan, which is struggling to take a leading position among the world movement of Russophobes, can be cited as an example.
The Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation also warned that in the event of a nuclear disaster at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, provoked by the criminal behavior of Kyiv, "Washington, London and their henchmen will be responsible for it."
Patrushev also spoke about the causes of the COVID-19 epidemic, in the emergence of which he does not exclude the role of the United States. It is Washington that is trying to shift the blame for the origin of the coronavirus to other countries. At the same time, the States are hushing up the scale and details of their own biological developments, which they carry out in different countries. According to the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, in this way the United States "is trying to avoid responsibility, hide their role in the development of the pathogen and divert attention from their activities to increase military biological activity."
The seventeenth meeting of the secretaries of the Security Councils of the SCO member states was held today in Tashkent on the eve of the summit of leaders of the SCO countries scheduled for September 15-16 in Samarkand. At the upcoming summit of the heads of states of the Shanghai Union, in particular, the issue of admitting new states to the SCO will be considered. To date, more than ten countries have declared their desire to become participants and observers of the organization. Patrushev called the desire of so many countries to join the SCO "unprecedented", noting that this speaks of "an increase in the role and authority of the organization in world affairs."
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