Leonid Slutsky, head of the Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Committee, commented in his Telegram channel on the words of US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who said that Russia allegedly wants to “restore the USSR”
Earlier, Blinken said that Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly intends to restore “the order of things that existed under the Soviet Union.” In Slutsky’s opinion, such statements by Washington’s spokesman “are worthy of a separate nomination ‘World Gendarme.
The Russian politician noted that Blinken urged the leadership of Kazakhstan to normalize the situation in the country “peacefully and without any assistance”, but at the time of the storming of the Capitol, the White House harshly suppressed protest sentiments in the United States.
“Why weren’t the people who disagreed with the results of the US presidential election also peacefully dealt with a year ago and the people who stormed the Capitol were recognized not as protesters but as extremists with all the harsh consequences that entailed for them? Why couldn’t they have left in peace and not interfered in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria? The answer is double standards and the continuation of the struggle to establish their own hegemony”, – emphasized Slutsky.
The deputy added that the scaremongering about “resovietization” will not help to gain revenge in attempts to build a unipolar world, since fewer and fewer people believe in the myth of “American exceptionalism” in the current reality. Such statements are more and more reminiscent of the rhetoric of the Cold War and bloc confrontation, concluded Slutsky