Global Security and Obama’s War Rhetoric: Moscow Slams Washington for “Embarking on a Path of Confrontation”

Monday, January 26, 2015
By Paul Martin

By The Brics Post
Global Research
January 26, 2015

A day after US President Barack Obama’s state of the union address, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov slammed Washington for embarking on a path of confrontation with Moscow.

“Following the United States’ actions, a mood of confrontation has prevailed in the North Atlantic alliance. It has made an absolutely politicized decision on suspending cooperation on military and civilian matters. Effectively, all the projects have been frozen,” Lavrov said in an annual press conference in Moscow on Wednesday.

“This is not Russia’s choice and Moscow does not want and would not allow a new Cold War,” the minister stressed.

Lavrov said Russia and the US “carry great responsibility” in the “world arena” and must work together.

“The Americans have taken a path of confrontation, completely and uncritically assessing their own steps, and President Obama’s speech yesterday shows that there is only one in the center of [his] philosophy: We are Number One. And everyone else just needs to understand that,” Lavrov said during the televised press conference.

He urged Russia’s western partners to understand that the realization of global security is impossible through unilateral actions.

“Western attempts to isolate Russia have been futile,” said the diplomat adding that Russia “consistently works on deeper cooperation within BRICS”.

“We hear a lot of statements from our western partners about the need to isolate Russia. President [of the United States Barack] Obama thought it was appropriate to say almost the same during his address to the nation yesterday. All these attempts will yield no results,” the Russian Foreign Minister said.

Obama had during his “State of the Union Address 2015″ said US support for Ukraine was a show of American strength and that Washington had successfully managed to “isolate Russia”.

“Well, today, it is America that stands strong and united with our allies, while Russia is isolated, with its economy in tatters,” Obama said.

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