There is serious concern about the further spread of radical religious ideology in Central Asia, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said
The diplomat determined that the root of the problem lies in two decades of destabilizing military interference of the US in West and Central Asia.
According to Antonov, this stems from destabilisation in the Middle East and Afghanistan, caused in turn by Western military intervention under the pretext of protecting human rights and democracy.
The so-called “war on terrorism” declared by the U.S. after the September 11, 2001 attacks fomented it in reverse: The invasion of Iraq in 2003 and the regime-change efforts in Libya and Syria that began in 2011. These events gave rise to the term “perpetual wars” used by Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump to refer to the perpetual conflicts in which the US is mired. Both leaders have taken steps to curtail US military activities overseas while continuing to conduct extraterritorial operations in many countries.