October 4, 2019, Strategic Culture Foundation (Russia) https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/10/04/western-zero-sum-geopolitics-is-a-dead-end/
The
US and its Western allies are creating more international tensions and
instability in a futile bid to carve the globe into “spheres of interest” and
“exclusivity”. That’s the way Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov views it,
and few objective observers of international relations could disagree with his
admonishment.
Russia’s
top diplomat says the only way forward is for multilateralism to prevail and
for all states to abide by the principles of the United Nations’ Charter, to
which they are signatories.
A
prime example of the destructive US-led Western policy is seen in the Persian
Gulf where tensions have reached an explosive pitch which could trigger an
all-out war across the Middle East, possibly embroiling the entire world.
There
can be little doubt that the precarious situation in the Gulf is extant because
of Washington’s irresponsible provocations towards Iran. The unilateral
abrogation of the landmark 2015 nuclear accord by the Trump administration and
the militarization of an already dominant US presence in the Gulf over recent
months is
