Lavrov equates 'America first' to Nazi rhetoric in critical essay
In an article for the magazine "Russia in Global Affairs," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on the United States' shift to the "America First" concept. Lavrov compared Donald Trump's slogan to the Nazi "Germany above everything."
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Lavrov expressed concern that the "America First" concept bears disturbing similarities to Nazi slogans.
"The emphasis on 'peace through strength' may ultimately bury diplomacy," Lavrov stated in the article. According to him, such an approach does not show respect for the international legal obligations of the USA under the United Nations Charter.
Lavrov on the US position
The head of Russian diplomacy stated that demographic, economic, social, and geopolitical changes are irreversible, making a return to the old world order impossible. Lavrov claimed that multipolarity is strengthening worldwide.
"Instead of opposing this process, the USA could become one of the responsible centres of power, alongside Russia, China, and other powers of the global South, East, North, and West," the politician believes.
A warning for Trump?
Lavrov added that the new American administration will test the boundaries with 'cowboy attacks' on the UN-based system concerning American interests.
However, he emphasized, the Trump administration will soon realize that international reality is much richer than the worldviews that can be presented without consequence in speeches directed at the American public and compliant geopolitical allies.
Russia "awaits a sobering up"
"Russia, waiting for such a sobering up, will continue working with like-minded partners to create conditions for adapting the mechanisms of practical interstate relations to the realities of multipolarity and the international legal consensus of the Yalta-Potsdam system, embodied in the United Nations Charter," Lavrov concluded.