Zakharova : UK, US looking for external adversary due to domestic political crises

MOSCOW, Feb. 7,(ST)- The United Kingdom and the United States, who are facing domestic political crises, search for an external adversary to divert attention and exploit the aggravating situation in Ukraine for this purpose, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at the Radio of Russia on Saturday.

“Now, not only is it obvious in the UK, but is proven that a political crisis is getting underway, with the prime minister being in the spotlight and the opposition demanding his resignation,” she said. “Over the past month or one and a half months, the British tabloids, newspapers and media have been daily coming out with one question: will he will step down or not? It is the same in the United States. The US president’s rating has plummeted, if not to its own minimum, but to a historical one in principle.”

“The situation is, by and large, critical in both [countries] from the political point of view,” she said. “That is an evident split that poses a threat to the incumbent authorities. Both the US and the UK need an external enemy. And here is Ukraine, where the political crisis has escalated in the past six months,” Zakharova said.

The diplomat explained the appearance of fake news about Russia’s alleged preparations to invade Ukraine by the fact that it is “a favorite season” – the Olympic Games in Beijing – for information and political campaigns.

Moreover, Zakharova  declared that the establishment of the Union of Ukraine, Poland, and the UK, the official announcement of which was postponed indefinitely, is doomed due to historic experience, adding that it also contradicts the existing international legal obligations.

“All alliances against someone else – they are doomed, not because we want it, but because there is logic because there is the historic experience of true counteraction or real aggression in the international format; it is okay to unite to prevent or counter new challenges and threats. But to create some blocs, unions, these little gaggles to become friends against someone, while having no grounds for that – this is stupid, at least, not to mention that all this contradicts, once again, the taken international legal obligation,” she said.

The spokeswoman noted that “the fueling of this international militarist horror” and “division of Europe by some kind of a triple union” bring up historic associations, which do not benefit the countries that decided to create this alliance.

“These experiments must not repeat; and, despite all their fantasies, their true goals are obvious – provocation,” the diplomat underscored.

Compiled by: Basma Qaddour