Russian government denounces “hysteria” about its alleged plans to deploy weapons in Cuba and Venezuela

The Russian government denounced the “hysteria” of the West about its alleged plans to deploy military infrastructure in Cuba and Venezuela, and argued that this shows the “arrogant mentality” of the West, which thinks it can do anything and Russia any.

“A whole hysteria broke out among Western experts and the political environment after the simple refusal of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov to respond unequivocally to a question about ‘possible political-military plans’ of our country in relation to Cuba and Venezuela. ”, the Foreign Ministry said in a comment.

In an interview with the Russian television channel RTVI published on the 13th, Riabkov did not rule out the deployment of military infrastructure in Cuba and Venezuela. “I don’t want to confirm anything or rule out anything,” said the “number two” of Russian diplomacy.

In the opinion of the government of Vladimir Putin, this is a sign of the “arrogant mentality” of the West, which declares the inadmissibility of the spheres of influence, but which gives numerous examples of the application of double standards.

“You can remember the recent call of the Secretary of State of the United States, Antony Blinken, to the authorities of Kazakhstan to explain ‘for what reason’ he resorted to the Organization of the Collective Security Treaty” (CSTO) led by Russia, noted Foreign.

“Perhaps it is not a demonstration of arrogant mentality of the style: ‘we can do everything, but Russia, nothing,'” said Foreign Affairs.

The possible location of Russian military structures in Venezuela and Cuba was not addressed by the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, and Blinken at the meeting they held this Friday in Geneva.

“Today we are not going to touch on this issue,” said the head of Russian diplomacy at a press conference at the end of talks with his American counterpart.

The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, also stated that the Russian president did not address the possibility of locating military bases in Venezuela during the telephone conversation he had this Thursday with his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolás Maduro. “This particular issue was not discussed, it was not raised,” Peskov said.